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I always say and always get flack for it, the US president legit doesn't matter much. If you want to predict the course of the USA, you will be right far more often if you just ignore who is president and look at precedent. Every bad president people love to play around with counterfactuals that it would've been better under the other president but really it would've been the same because the US government is an utterly enormous institution with a lot of momentum in a particular direction which one person is not going to change much.
exactly, the president is just the figurehead doing public relations in the end
The presidency is representative of how the US is one giant corporation made up of corporations;
they are the CEO meaning they’re elected by the shareholders to be the public face of policy and to put their name on pieces of paper representing those policies, and they’re also the patsy for when things go wrong. Unclear if Trump grasps that second part (doubtful).