around him who are strong enough to impose that control. that was true during campaign and it is true now. and it is frightening. because among many other things, you know, when the president tweets something, that is essentially an order for lots of people in the government to start acting. to tart doing things. all kinds of things. flow from a statement of the president of the united states. we re now in a position where we have to rely on the chinese to not take donald trump s tweets too seriously. to laugh them off. in nationalist china, they may not do that. it makes the possibilities more dangerous. you see bill clinton stirring the pot and you see michelle obama saying she s been supportive of the trump transition. the words that we say moving forward, all of us, it matters. which is one of the reasons why