Doris Kearns Goodwin on Trump: ‘Scary’ to Think that ‘Words Don’t Matter Anymore’

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GOODWIN: "It was interesting watching him sign the orders for the cabinet, and using the pens, it makes you realize that eventually if he wants to get his program passed, and he wants a lot of other pen signings for the legislation that he cares about, the very class, as we were all saying earlier, of people he’s going to need is that congressional class. You know, I think sometimes when Eisenhower came in, they were saying he’s going to be a very sad man, he’s no longer a military leader who can give orders. He’s got to deal with all these people. Well, similarly, he’s a CEO. He can fire people. He can he give them bonuses. He doesn’t have to worry about things in the same way a president does. And it’s nice to see, at least, an informal repartee now with these senators and congressmen, but he has to really work with them. That’s his body, that's who he needs and I don’t know if those words are going to be good in their heads in what he said today. But maybe words don’t matter anymore -- that’s what’s really scary. When you watch -- maybe they'll say, 'Oh he said that, he doesn’t really mean it.' That’s part of what’s happening in our political culture today."