Trump people are surprised to learn that he’s reckless and impulsive.

President Trump‘s sweeping pardons for 1,500 Jan. 6 criminals and defendants were a last-minute, rip-the-bandage-off decision to try to move past the issue quickly, White House advisers familiar with the Trump team’s discussions tell Axios.

Always a good plan. If you’re going to do something evil and outrageous, do the worst possible version of it so as to get it over with quickly. What could go wrong?

Eight days before the inauguration, Vice President-to-be JD Vance — channeling what he believed to be Trump’s thinking — said on “Fox News Sunday” that Jan. 6 convicts who assaulted police ought not get clemency: “If you committed violence that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”

• Trump vacillated during an internal debate over targeted clemency vs. a blanket decision according to two insiders.
• But as Trump’s team wrestled with the issue, and planned a shock-and-awe batch of executive orders Day 1, “Trump just said: ‘F -k it: Release ’em all,'” an adviser familiar with the discussions said.

That’s the right way to solve all complicated problems. Just say “Fuck it, do the bad thing at top speed.”

Trump’s decision was a surprise to some Republicans in Congress, who grimaced at the appearance of the new president condoning violence against police officers.

The what? The what? The appearance?? Honey that wasn’t an appearance of condoning violence against cops, that was the thing itself. What the hell else would it be?