Dana Gallagher, MPH, PA, CHIC

Archive 2017

The Bad Leadership Chronicles: I Pardon Myself

“All agree the President has complete power to pardon,” tweeted Trump recently. Constitutional questions aside, pardoning family and pardoning oneself is a tone-deaf, provocative example of a leader’s abuse of power. If you have been following American news at all, you know that Trump has craved, if not demanded, loyalty. Loyalty from his colleagues, his party,

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The Bad Leadership Chronicles: Acting Out

Today I woke up to yet another report of Trump tweeting badly: he had posted a mock video of himself tackling and beating a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/business/media/trump-wrestling-video-cnn-twitter.html Although his Homeland Security Deputy apparently thinks otherwise, Trump’s message is unambiguous: he intends to bring down people or institutions that criticize him–violently if

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The Bad Leadership Chronicles: #covfefe

With his recent midnight tweet, President Trump all but broke the Internet. It’s not only that the tweet was incoherent, but also, that it was alarming. Speculation as to its meaning ran rampant: Did he have a stroke? Was he signaling the Russians with a secret code? Or maybe it was just a typo? Six hours

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