LOL
Trump started this shit when he decided to take pot shots at former presidents for their lack of condolence calls (that was a lie by the way).
How was it a lie? Every President has
not made condolence calls to every soldier that died. Obama didn't, Bush didn't, and neither did their predecessors.
And the only reason that came up at all was because the press asked him why he hadn't spoken about the deaths of the four soldiers - a clear implication that their deaths we're a non-issue to him. In fact, he had called them personally.
The
fact of calling is one thing - it is the politicization of the
content of that call that has gotten ugly, and that's something that nobody had ever done previously. And that was all orchestrated by a despicable member of Congress.
If a family and members of Congress choose to politicize the content of a condolence call, there isn't a damn thing that any President can do about it. So if I were advising him, I'd tell him to stop making them. I thought it was a nice gesture, but if the content of condolence calls is now legitimate campaign fodder, it's not worth it.
While I have you, how do you feel about Trump's delay on enforcing the Russian sanctions?
Haven't followed it or paid attention to it.
ETA:. I looked it up briefly. I really dislike delegations of authority to the Executive Branch. If Congress wants to direct something, they should pass a law sufficiently specific that it can be enforced as written.
From what I read, Congress delegated to the Executive Branch the responsibility for specifying exactly which individuals and organizations within Russia should be sanctioned, and honestly, I don't like that. Congress should do that on it's own rather than attempting to order the President to do that.
There are apparently more specific actions that are supposed to be implemented in January, so we'll see what happens. To the extent any law is sufficiently clear and specific, I think it should be enforced by the President.