It would be an easier sell if one did not read his prolific, impeachment-obsessed Twitter feed.

“In theory, it is an effective strategy,” said Joe Lockhart, a White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton. “The one thing the president and president alone has is the Oval Office, the Rose Garden, the trappings of the presidency and Air Force One. Those things can be used effectively to show that, while everyone focuses on politics, he is focused on the country. The problem is the president keeps tweeting, so it is not working.”

But even on Twitter this week, Trump has been leaning more than usual into the retweet button — letting others fight his fights.

The White House has been making a concerted effort to schedule presidential work and meetings on Syria, opioid abuse and the trade talks with China in an effort to demonstrate the contrast “between who he is and what he is focusing on versus the partisan impeachment underway in the House,” a senior administration official said.

The Clinton administration tried a similar move in the late 1990s, walling off the president from the impeachment inquiry by day even as, by night, he dialed up friends to privately seethe about what he viewed as persecution.

Clinton also took home some major policy victories that helped him survive politically, such as a budget deal and an effort to broker a peace settlement in the Middle East.

“The image could not be more powerful — while the Republicans focused on scandal, the president was sticking to his day job, winning a budget fight and making peace around the world,” journalist Peter Baker wrote in his book, “The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton.”