A finger on the scale

摘要

IN 2015 Jeb Bush, who was competing with him for the top job, warned that Donald Trump would be "a chaos president". In many respects he has been proved right. President Trump has failed to keep many of the promises he made on the campaign trail. The White House leaks like a colander. The administration has suffered rapid staff turnover while weathering scandal after scandal. Mr Trump often appears capable of remaining on-message for no more than 280 characters.