PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TWEETS ARE BENEATH THE DIGNITY OF THE OFFICE

 The president just in the past week has insulted a morning television personality in crude and ghastly terms and tweeted a doctored video clip of himself beating a figure representing CNN, an action that could endanger reporters. This is not making America great. His social-media attacks are constantly lowering the bar for presidential decorum and a vile breach of the dignity of the office. 

The Trump agenda is not a legislative agenda but a ragtag collection of bad ideas quickly stapled together. Trump is even ambivalent about selling the GOP health care plan and to the limited degree he has discussed what the American health-care system should look like, Trump has talked about “insurance for everybody” and coverage that would be “much less expensive and much better” — standards that the bills produced by the House and Senate don’t come close to achieving.