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The Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior

By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMAY 13, 2017

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If you’re a Republican legislator, stick this list on the fridge and give it a quick read the next time you get upset at a president.

President Trump’s signature on an executive order. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

It wasn’t so long ago that Republicans in Congress cared about how a president comported himself in office. They cared a lot!

The president is, after all, commander in chief of the armed forces, steward of the most powerful nation on earth, role model for America’s children — and he should act at all times with the dignity his station demands. It’s not O.K. to behave in a manner that demeans the office and embarrasses the country.

Shirt sleeves in the Oval Office? Disrespectful. Shoes on the Resolute desk? Even worse. Lying? Despicable, if not impeachable.

Now seems like a good moment to update the standards. What do Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders think a president may say or do and still deserve their enthusiastic support?

We offer this handy reference list in hopes of protecting them from charges of hypocrisy in the future. They can consult it should they ever feel tempted to insist on different standards for another president. So, herewith, the Congressional Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior.

If you are the president, you may freely:

• attack private citizens on Twitter
• delegitimize federal judges who rule against you
• refuse to take responsibility for military actions gone awry
• fire the F.B.I. chief in the middle of his expanding investigation into your campaign and your associates
• accuse a former president, without evidence, of an impeachable offense

• employ top aides with financial and other connections to a hostile foreign power
• blame the judiciary, in advance, for any terror attacks
• call the media “the enemy of the American people”
• demand personal loyalty from the F.B.I. director
• threaten the former F.B.I. director

• accept foreign payments to your businesses, in possible violation of the Constitution
• occupy the White House with the help of a hostile foreign power
• intimidate congressional witnesses
• allow White House staff members to use their personal email for government business

• neglect to fill thousands of crucial federal government positions for months
• claim, without evidence, that millions of people voted illegally
• fail to fire high-ranking members of your national security team for weeks, even after knowing they lied to your vice president and exposed themselves to blackmail

• refuse to release tax returns
• hide the White House visitors’ list from the public
• vacation at one of your private residences nearly every weekend

• use an unsecured personal cellphone
• criticize specific businesses for dropping your family members’ products
• review and discuss highly sensitive intelligence in a restaurant, and allow the Army officer carrying the “nuclear football” to be photographed and identified by name

• obstruct justice
• hire relatives for key White House posts, and let them meet with foreign officials and engage in business at the same time
• promote family businesses on federal government websites

• tweet, tweet, tweet

• collude with members of Congress to try to shut down investigations of you and your associates
• threaten military conflict with other nations in the middle of news interviews

• compare the U.S. intelligence community to Nazis
• display complete ignorance about international relations, your own administration’s policies, American history and the basic structure of our system of government

• skip daily intelligence briefings
• repeat untruths
• lie

If you’re a Republican legislator, stick this list on the fridge and give it a quick read the next time you get upset at a president.

RK
Long Island, NY 21 hours ago
Nepotism has to be on the list.
You mentioned hypocrisy, but Trump has to be the worst hypocrite to occupy the White House, as he has done, barely 100 days into his term, the very things for which he criticized his predecessor:

- Executive Orders

- Intervention in Syria

- Golfing

- Travel expenses

Trump also said Obama will go down as the the worst president in history.

Obama was ranked 12th recently by historians. It is a safe bet that Trump will be ranked among the worst of the lot, possibly the worst.

Dianne Walsh
Miami, FL 19 hours ago
-refuse during a photo-op to shake hands with the Chancellor of Germany , even after she asks you to, while you scowl and stare at the floor

- only allow the Russian news agency photographer to take photograph your meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Ambassador, denying any access to the US press

- claim to have invented the idea of "priming the pump"

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