"It's much easier being presidential, it's easy," he told a rollicking pre-Covid campaign rally in Dallas last October. "The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. Even then, the White House says information only rises to Trump's level when there is a "strategic decision" to be made. John Bolton, his onetime national security adviser, said this week that Trump was generally uninterested in hearing inconvenient or contradictory information. For Trump, solving self-created or self-inflated problems has always seemed more palatable than confronting the challenges no one else can solve.

Source: CNN July 02, 2020 19:07 UTC