His mouth blared his self-imposed moniker - Mr. Negotiator. But Donald tRump, a unrepentant pathological liar, has no clue how the elements of governance interact and work, and so somehow seems to believe that government can be run and influenced as a business. His inexplicably naive presumption could not be further from the truth.
As it turns out, there are in fact at least six branches of government, listed below in increasing order of power and influence (provided normal political forces are generally in balance):
* Executive
* Legislative
* Bureaucratic/career civil servants
* Free Press
* Judicial
* An informed electorate.
If you have any doubts that this list is generally true, you might read up on the Watergate scandal (1972 -1974+). Reviewing briefly, Richard Nixon didn't resign when he initially was rightly accused of the coverup of a burglary. He didn't resign when half his staff had to resign in criminal shame over the course of a year. He didn't even resign after the House Judiciaty Committee voted out a slew of Articles of Impeachment and sent them to the House floor for relatively certain approval. Rather, he resigned mere days after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Nixon had to release, unedited and unaltered, the tapes of his Oval Office conversations while contemporaneous opinion polls finally showed that 51 percent of voters wanted him gone. A few days later, he cried on TV, waved awkwardly to a crowd on the White House lawn, boarded Marine One, and flew off to California. As incoming president Gerald Ford was soon to point out, “our national nightmare (was) over."