Trump’s Reciprocal: The Presidency Starts Working its Magic (February 5, 2017)

Rampant speculation abounds on the ways Trump has, will, won’t, can’t, should, shouldn’t, ought, might, wants to, fails to, and tries to change the Presidency. A developing story.

But America’s Office of the President is 44 times bigger and older than anything Trump has to offer in that regard. And it has 227 years more experience and tradition than Trump’s effort backing it up.

The classic saga of a pebble versus a stone mountain. Not too many are paying attention right now. The pebble rolling into contention for battle is all the rage for those focused on the here and now. Like the Twitter Lovers.

The truth is the Presidency grinds both heavy and fine on its occupants, starting even before their Day One in power. The word gravitas applies to the transfer effects worked by the past on the geography of the present.

We need a sort of time lapse political photography catalogue to record the workings not of the Man on the Office, but the Office on the Man. Macro and micro.

A select initial portfolio follows.