Speaking of lazy trolls:
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS THE WORK ETHIC OF A BORED, LAZY CHILD
Right after the election, Trump biographer Tim O'Brien made what has turned out to be a prescient prediction, telling Politico that Trump would leave the actual work of governing to Congress. “He says he’s a hard worker, but he really prefers to watch a lot of TV and eat hamburgers,” O'Brien said. Several months later, as that prediction was being realized, O'Brien told Maureen Dowd, the New York Times columnist, that the pinnacle of Trump’s career was the erection of Trump Tower. That was in 1983.
"But the success of that went to his head and he never cared again. He’s fundamentally lazy. He free-rides so many processes he doesn’t know anything about. He used to do it in the business world, and now he does it in the political world,” O’Brien told Dowd. "He’s not a student of anything other than protecting his image."
Trump was never a master builder, entrepreneur or deal-maker. He is good at branding, and at selling that brand: Make America Great Again, Build the Wall, Lock Her Up. Liddle Marco, Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary. But the branding that worked so well during the campaign works a lot less well when your customers are legislators who not only have to have a grasp of policy but to explain their votes to constituents back home.
It’s also fairly difficult to brand high-risk insurance pools and six-party talks on North Korea. Not everything can be reduced to a ballcap slogan, Trump has discovered. And that discovery has dispirited him, as he confessed to Reuters this spring: “I loved my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier." That may be the most astonishing admission ever made by a sitting president, a concession of intellectual incuriosity and outright laziness that simply has no rival in the history of the office.