Trump isn't president yet, but that hasn't stopped him from starting to act like he is

"He’s not going to follow rules that he thinks are stupid rules,”said a former senior White House official in Trump’s first term.

(The prior official that later in the article shows he likes Trump.1/3including my running commentary on this criticism of Trump.Biggest Gossip Column by NBC to twist what normally happens)

(Sooooo….Bidan has never been a legitimate President but that didn't stop from acting like he was, when he went about intentionally destroying America. And calling normal citizens domestic terrorists, garbage, etc.Which one is better, a real President, that is elected again,or a fake onethat can be charged with every RICO crime in the Book, NBC? NBC you picking a fight with Trump at this time is not a great idea.)

WASHINGTON —Foreign leaders have lined up to speak with him. He has rattled Mexico and Canada with threats of steep tariffs and warned there would be “hell to pay” for militants in Gaza unless they release the hostages by the time he’s sworn in.

That won't happen for another 45 days,but Donald Trump, the president-in-waiting, isn't shying away from acting like the president-in-reality.(it's called a transition period for a reason assholes)

Trump can't sign a bill or issue an executive order yet, but he is crowding out Joe Bidenas the sitting president winds down his term and steadily recedes from public view. In two foreign trips since the election, Biden has answered all of two questions from reporters.(Joe disappeared for weeks on his own and his bedtime is 4 pm, and barely ever answers two questions. Has the press asked him two questions?)

He has been left to kibitz about Trump’s pronouncements — “I hope he rethinks it,” he said of Trump’s plan to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico — rather than drive an agenda of his own. (How can joe drive an agenda of his own, he's done, he can't start one, he never did it in 4 years already?)

As for Trump, “his view is that he’s not going to follow rules that he thinks are stupid rules,” said a former senior White House official in Trump’s first term.=“His view is these are hostages and if he can help bring them home, then why would he follow protocol if it’s going to impact peoples’ lives?”(why is NBC upset about saving hostages?)

At this point, Trump is “already basically running things, and he’s not even president yet,” the person added. (So he didn't have criticism for Trump like NBC wanted it to sound like. And Joe did anything to fuck he wanted, including getting off, from stealing top secret papers he committed a crime taking thembut NBC is upset Trump may safe lives?)

Trump’s penchant for plunging into current affairs istesting the one-at-a-time dictum that presidents are supposed to honor but, for reasons of political expediency or practical necessity,usually don’t.(They just made that up,sounds like they did)

“He would probably argue, ‘I’m more than a private citizen at this point; I’m president-elect, and I’m going to have all the powers of the presidency in a couple of months.’ But that doesn’t mean you get to start before you’re inaugurated,” said Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.

This weekend, Trump will join French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedralfive years after it was devastated by fire. Biden was invited but opted not to attend, a White House official said. (What is wrong with that? He didn't invite himself! And Jill is attending.)

Trump’s return to the world stage after a four-year hiatus, coupled with news about his hires, has overshadowed Biden’s trip to sub-Saharan Africa this week, in which he faced fallout from the sweeping pardon he gave his son Hunter. (This article is a dodge and weave from the disastrous Bidan pardon, so they make up some big problemthat Trump is being pushy. Even though Bidan's staff have no problem with it.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-isnt-president-yet-hasnt-stopped-starting-act-rcna182657

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“Given the weakness of the current president and the speed at which things develop in the modern world, Trump is, in effect, a presumptive president,” said Newt Gingrich, a Republican former House speaker and a Trump ally. “Certainly, foreign governments are treating him that way.”

If Biden is unhappy about being upstaged, he hasn’t offered any hints. In fact, Trump’s interventions may prove helpful to the degree they complement Biden’s larger goals.

A senior Biden administration official cited Trump’s social media post warning of “hell to pay” unless the hostages are freedfrom Gaza by Inauguration Day.

That message doesn’t hurt the Biden administration’s efforts to secure the hostages’ release in exchange for a ceasefire, the official said.

A president-elect’s first and overriding task is to build a Cabinet and a senior White House team ahead of the four-year term.But Trump and a few of his predecessors haven’t hesitated to dip a toe into real-time crises if so moved.(I can't believe NBC is complaining aboutsupposed decorum, when the Bidan Admin broke every rule of all time,and they are complaining about good thingsthat Trump is doing to help people, the country and even Bidan in a weird way)

As he prepared to take office in 2016, Trump tried to salvage jobs that the corporate parent of Carrier, a heating and air conditioning company, had planned to move from Indiana to Mexico.

And he weighed in onBoeing’s plans to build the next generation of presidential aircraft, decrying the expense. “Cancel order!”he tweeted as president-elect in 2016

“After 10 years, if you think that President Trump is somehow abiding by norms and traditions, you’ve been living under a rock,” Sean Spicer, Trump’s former White House press secretary, said in an interview.

"This is not a guy who is concerned about traditions, norms, etc. He’s a guy who wants to get stuff done. He’s not going to sit back and wait until Inauguration Day. And it works.”

At least one("at least one" means only one was a sissy/pussy) Republican lawmakerquestioned whether Trump's approach does, indeed, work. After Trump warned that he would slap tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China unless they cracked down on the movement of migrants and drugs across the U.S. border, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate, to see him.

Trudeau’s support in Canada has been slipping. He faces a tough re-election bid, andthe spectacle of him racing to Mar-a-Lago for an audience with Trump risked making him look like a supplicant.

“I don’t think it’s smart for him [Trump] to humiliate Trudeau like he has,” a Republican senator said,speaking on condition of anonymity to talk freely.. “Canada is a good friend and is not a problem.” (RINO's are the epitome of stupid, they have no idea how Trudeau would willingly kill America's industry. These politicians should move to Canada if they are so smart. "Canada is not a problem? Really the problem is they knowingly let in a couple of million of illegals in the last fews years to the US, including known terrorists.And Trudeau deserves all the humiliation he gets)

The senator said: “Trump was elected to break some plates, but he doesn’t have a huge mandate. This is a 50-50 country(WTF????). We’ve got midterm [elections] coming and we’ve got one year to deliver, and it’s going to be hard to get prices down with these tariffs.” (He obviously doesn't remember what Trump did before.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-isnt-president-yet-hasnt-stopped-starting-act-rcna182657