ENOUGH! – AT 11:46 A.M. ET:  That's the word I'm hearing from Urgent Agenda readers about the president's non-performance this week.  We have wanted to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, after his dubious behavior during the presidential campaign.

We were generous.  He is an imaginative, dynamic man, with a coarse side to him.  He is light years better than Hillary Clinton, who is neither dynamic nor imaginative, but is equally coarse.  The country chose Trump, taking a chance on a businessman with no political background.  Maybe he could get the country moving again after eight years of Obama's self-love.  And he did get the country moving again.  And he seemed to be moving comfortably into the presidency when...this week occurred.  The dark side came out.  Gaffe after gaffe.  Get this one, from CBS News:

For the first time as president, Donald Trump is holding his Russian counterpart responsible for interfering in the 2016 election. In an exclusive interview with "CBS Evening News" anchor Jeff Glor, the president said he would hold Vladimir Putin accountable because he's Russia's leader. Glor also asked him about the 2020 presidential election.

Here is a part of their exchange:

JEFF GLOR Let me ask you about 2020.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay.

GLOR: Who do you think your Democratic opponent will be? Joe Biden says he'll make a decision by January.

TRUMP: Well, I dream, I dream about Biden. That's a dream. Look, Joe Biden ran three times. He never got more than 1 percent and President Obama took him out of the garbage heap, and everybody was shocked that he did. I'd love to have it be Biden. I think I'd like to have any one of those people that we're talking about…You know, there's probably – the group of seven or eight right now. I'd really like to – I'd like to run against any one of them, but Biden never by himself could never do anything. President Obama took him, made him vice president and he was fine. But you go back and look at how he succeeded in running, when he ran two or three times, I don't think he ever break -- broke one. He was at the one or less level, 1 percent or less level.

COMMENT:  It is not necessary to say about a man that he was taken from the garbage heap.  Mother taught us not to talk that way.  Trump has been doing it all along, beginning with his horrible comment, during the primary campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, that John McCain wasn't a war hero. 

Now it's coming back to haunt him.  Republicans resentful of the president's behavior toward them are sharpening their knives.  There is a difference between a hearty political argument and a vicious personal attack.

There's an old line in politics:  "When your opponent is committing suicide, don't get in his way."  The Democratic Party, with its wacked-out socialist wing, is committing suicide, and the president is getting in its way.

July 19,  2018