Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Given that Donald Trump is a borderline illiterate, he has chosen a strange strategy as president: being a writer. He is a writer of ‘executive orders,’ many of them press releases disguised as diktats. He is a writer of memos and tweets and presidential statements. I mean that he is a writer of these in the same way he is the writer who wrote The Art of the Deal — which is to say, he didn’t write the thing, but it is, in a broader sense, his work. And the thing about work is, Trump does not like it. … The most charitable view one could take of the Trump administration’s crypto-Leninist central planning — his low-energy autocracy consisting of lots of easy-to-publish executive orders amounting in the long run to approximately squat … is that it is a signaling strategy.” (05/21/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-executive-orders-memos-lazy-pundit/