But the tenor of Trump's actions has been more bombastic and his pace has been exceptionally rapid and though his orders and memoranda might not ultimately achieve their goals, they indicate that he's basically leveraging executive power for maximum spectacle.
Lloyd Blankfein, the company's chief executive, "basically denies it all", says Cohan, who describes Blankfein's stance as "disingenuous".
The Clinton administration, for example, basically disregarded an executive order signed by Mr. Reagan that required agencies to "review their actions carefully to prevent unnecessary takings" of private property.
"That was basically a massacre," executive producer & writer D.B Weiss says of the episode past.
Basically Franklin Delano Roosevelt's executive order 9066, which rounded up the Japanese-Americans into internment camps, including those that made fortune cookies.
"If you were to shoot at the driver you would have an unguided missile, basically," said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which suggests departments forbid officers from shooting at moving vehicles unless there's another deadly threat involved, such as a weapon.
And when their shiny new machine was finished, Sony executives basically said, "Hmm, we'd better figure out an online system for this thing".
At the New York headquarters of J. Walter Thompson, the advertising agency, "everybody has basically left," said Owen Dougherty, executive vice president.
He added: "[It is the] same old story for last 70 years which is our executive are basically in hock to big newspaper barons.
American's flight attendants have one more reason to be unhappy these days, and it has to do with a memorandum from an American regional executive who basically told them they were doing a crummy job.
