Whether you pro-Trump or against him, there are some obvious truths that need be said....

Here we are two months into his Presidency, and not a day has gone by that the news hasn't been dominated by controversial issues, battles between Trump, the press, and all sorts of other entities, including those politicians who don't support Trump. Normally, once the elections are over and the new President settles in, a sense of business as usual comes over the scene. Stuff begins to get accomplished. Sure, there's always some jostling back and forth. But for the most part, the nation gets down to the business of advancing and progressing. All of a sudden we're not afforded that luxury. Everything is a battle, a crisis, a controversy. The Twitter battles rage on... nothing that Trump does proceeds smoothly. He's already had a couple of defeats, one with the immigration ban... and now another with Obamacare.

He may have good intentions behind all this, but the way he's trying to shove things down the nation's throat isn't working, and he's finding out the hard way. With Obamacare it was comical, the way he put an ultimatum on Congress to approve the GOP plan or he was "going to take his ball and go home". Another way of saying he was moving on to other issues. He thinks he can run the country like the old show "Let's Make a Deal", or like some business venture..... and he gets frustrated when the deals aren't made with the speed with which he's been accustomed to. Then there's the frigging ego, which prevents him from adjusting like he should. No first time President gets everything right just out of the gate. So mistakes are understandable. What's not understandable is Trump's unwillingness to learn and adjust.

Personally, I don't think we can sustain this pace for a year, much less 4. It's like two fighters going toe-to-toe from the opening bell. The fight ain't gonna go 12 rounds. Someone's going down... and soon.

Curiously, the pro-Trump voices have slowly begun to go silent, even on this forum. Lyle hasn't posted in almost a month.... and two former members are gone. Brock continues on as the lone voice... and I'm sure he privately has his misgivings. After all, even Trump isn't beyond criticism, right bro?

In any case, I still wish the best for Trump..... because he IS after all the President. As he goes, so does the country. There's no other way to say it. If we were talking odds, I'd say the odds don't favor Trump right now. Not because he's a bad guy and wants the country to suffer..... but because he's an old dog and old dogs don't learn new tricks. Trump is Trump and some of that just ain't good when you're sitting in the Oval Office.