This is so embarrassing, but I have to admit that I was wrong about something. Look, part of being an honest writer is copping to the fact that you don't know everything and occasionally you make mistakes. So, yes, here I am eating some crow. Donald Trump has proven me wrong. Now obviously I have respect for the office of the presidency and I've always believed that it is a high-pressure job with a grueling schedule. But I have to admit that I was wrong... about that grueling schedule part, because it seems like it's mostly just Trump waking up in the morning and watching cable news. That feels good to get off my chest. Thanks Donald for showing me that the presidency is a way less-demanding job than we all thought.

I came to this realization this morning when Donald Trump responded to Fox & Friends in real time on Twitter. You see, conservative commentator Laura Ingraham was on the show, and in the wake of Harvey, she criticized the Trump administration for leaving so many administrative jobs vacant.

“I think we can all look at these horrific pictures, and we can conclude a federal government does need staff. We see it acutely in need of staff in a situation like this,” she said after noting that the new FEMA director was just confirmed in June. “We’re also facing a huge crisis with North Korea,” she continued. “We’re facing a crisis of confidence across the country where people wonder—even with President Trump in, he said he was going to drain the swamp—can we have a government that works for the people and not just have a people enslaved to the government?”

It's a great point and something that is so obviously true. We have government agencies to help and protect people. Without people filling those jobs, there aren't enough people to do the work efficiently and you end up in a terrible situation. And though it might be too early to deem the Harvey response a disaster, it definitely hasn't been impressive. And Ingraham's other point about North Korea is right on the money. The state department has so many unfilled jobs at a time when we need our diplomacy to work as well as it can. Now typically, I'd imagine a president dealing with a tropical storm that has flooded a great American city wouldn't hear Ingraham's criticism till much later, as he'd be far too busy working to see it live. But again, I was wrong. Donald Trump live-tweeted a response:

On one hand, it's good that the Trump administration is finally telling the truth about this. They have been blaming Democrats for the hold-up, when in actuality they haven't even nominated people for hundreds of these jobs, and here's Trump acknowledging that the vacancies exist because they want them to exist. But this is a terrible short-sighted policy that maybe makes sense in a theoretical way, but in the presidency they're playing with live ammo. Letting government agencies collapse means bad things for the American people. PARTICULARLY when one of those agencies is responsible for trying to solve North Korea without getting into a disastrous shooting war. But even though Trump's substance is bad, I want to make one thing very clear: The president should be too busy to live-tweet the morning news. We should have a president who can handle being too busy for that.

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