Trumps mouth gets him into trouble all the time. I am hoping he'll learn to think a tad before opening it.
He had that problem
long before he became a blip on the nation's political radar. He was the
same way, mostly, when he first became a media star in New York in the 1980s, even if it wasn't
quite as frequent as it became when he did become a political player, never mind the president.
What you should hope
isn't that he'll learn to think a tad before opening it---it seems rare
enough for 70something men and women to change habits of lifetimes---but that, somehow, he lets
those staffers who
do have more than two brain cells to rub together keep him from letting his worst
instincts run around loose---kind of the way people like H.R. Haldeman did with Richard Nixon, at
least before it was too late to play even that option. (Having read assorted literature on Nixon
including Haldeman's diaries, I often think that if Haldeman had a dollar for every time he had to
protect Nixon from himself even before Watergate, Haldeman could have retired very comfortably.)
