Donald J. Trump is the 45th president of the United States. He believes the United States has incredible potential and will go on to exceed anything that it has achieved in the past but even before he was elected as a president, he was already known as a person lacking compassion. The four main concepts from the Neustadt’s are professional reputation, persuasion, public prestige, and irreversibility. These four tenants define a president’s term, and in the case of Donald Trump can be used to evaluate his first ten months and better his remaining time in the office.
Public prestige deals with the president's popular support outside Washington and how public views the president reputation. When the public has the negative perception, it is difficult for the executive branch to pass the legislation. An example of a law that Trump proposed not being passed would be building “the conflict between President Trump and Congress
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If the President pursues this path, against the wishes of both Republicans and Democrats, as well as the majority of the American people, he will be heading toward a government shutdown which nobody will like and which won’t accomplish anything,” Schumer said in a statement (Baker, Peter. “Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Aug. 2017,
“Persuasion is the action or fact of convincing someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something. Trump has the strength to convince people to be on his side even if they didn’t start on his side. One of the most important powers of the US presidency is its power to persuade. But after six months in office, President Trump is far from becoming