Republican elected officials, take note. Donald Trump is not malleable.
How do we know this? There is the fact, of course, that people have been pressing him since the fall to name his foreign policy advisers and on Wednesday he admitted that he consults primarily with himself. “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things,” he said. “My primary consultant is myself, and I have a good instinct for this stuff.”
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But even more important, we know that he is not malleable and will not take advice because we’ve seen a specific case of it acted out in relation to the most important issue put on the table by Trump in this campaign: civil order.
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