Trump's White House is just like his business empire: A drama-fueled failure

I guess we shouldn't be surprised

President Trump.
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"I alone can fix it," Donald Trump thundered as he accepted the Republican nomination for president in Cleveland just over a year ago.

Trump won the nomination, and later the presidency, in part because he promised to bring the managerial skills he used to build a Manhattan real estate empire to Washington, where he would make deals, drain the swamp of business-as-usual corruption, and endow America with so much winning we would soon tire of it.

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Anthony L. Fisher

Anthony L. Fisher is a journalist and filmmaker in New York with work also appearing at Vox, The Daily Beast, Reason, New York Daily News, Huffington Post, Newsweek, CNN, Fox News Channel, Sundance Channel, and Comedy Central. He also wrote and directed the feature film Sidewalk Traffic, available on major VOD platforms.