Will Trump be able to handle the tough scrutiny of the Presidency?

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Depends on your definition of "handle."

People seem to have this mental model of "president" or "presidential candidate" as some kind of college-debate-team-champion/civics-professor/bank-manager hybrid who's supposed to conduct himself in a certain way and all this stuff. But that's all perception, it's pretty much just a made-up expectation we get from TV. There's nothing that says a president can't throw temper tantrums like a 3 year-old if he wants to. What matters in the end is how he executes the law, with how he influences national conversations and morale as an "also ran."

Trump will handle criticism in a way that causes you to pay attention to what he wants you to pay attention to and not to what he doesn't. That's what he's been doing this whole time.