Actually it is the president who abandoned the DACA kids. He was offered a deal by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) — money for the border wall in exchange for DACA relief — but senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, along with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) nixed it. Or does Trump not remember?
On Thursday, the White House assured the public that Trump was on board with the omnibus bill, and maybe he was — then. Now? He wasn’t and then he was. Maybe he panicked momentarily, realizing he lost his wall and will get blamed for DACA.
Maybe he figured that between Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, the fear-inducing swap of H.R. McMaster for John Bolton as national security adviser, the stock-market plunge, the highly criticized beginning of a potential trade war, and the departure of John Dowd, the voters might get the idea the wheels are coming off the bus. The solution? More chaos!
Whatever his intention, Trump is communicating to Congress and the entire world that his word is worthless, that when you think you have a deal, you really don’t. What then are the Europeans, in discussion with the administration over his threatened exit from the Iran nuclear deal, the South Koreans, the North Koreans, our trading partners and just about everyone else on the planet supposed to think? The answer, sadly, is that Trump is irrational and unreliable. Our allies will take matters into their own hands (e.g., the European Union may decide it is better to deal with the relative certainty of the Iran deal than the Trump-induced chaos); our adversaries will take aggressive action, unaware of what our bottom line really is.
On the veto Trump apparently was bluffing. Onh the Iran nuclear deal, tariffs, personnel changes and the Russia investigation —it is not clear whether Trump is panicked bluffing, or is panicked and so desperate as to take dramatic, dangerous action to preserve his image of a “winner,” and to convince himself it is he, not any adviser or lawyer, who deserves “credit.”
As Ian Bassin, the executive director of the nonpartisan Protect Democracy group tweeted, “With Bolton, [Joseph E.] diGenova and [Mike] Pompeo feeding Trump’s worst instincts, we’re entering incredibly dangerous times.” (He could add to the list Peter Navarro, Cotton, the right-wing echo chamber and his favorite Fox News propagandists — all of whom egg on Trump without regard for the catastrophe that might await us if he followed their advice.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ential-temper-tantrum/?utm_term=.d1f364c15421
So he throws his followers who trusted him, under the bus. No one trusts Trump without ultimately regretting it.
On Thursday, the White House assured the public that Trump was on board with the omnibus bill, and maybe he was — then. Now? He wasn’t and then he was. Maybe he panicked momentarily, realizing he lost his wall and will get blamed for DACA.
Maybe he figured that between Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, the fear-inducing swap of H.R. McMaster for John Bolton as national security adviser, the stock-market plunge, the highly criticized beginning of a potential trade war, and the departure of John Dowd, the voters might get the idea the wheels are coming off the bus. The solution? More chaos!
Whatever his intention, Trump is communicating to Congress and the entire world that his word is worthless, that when you think you have a deal, you really don’t. What then are the Europeans, in discussion with the administration over his threatened exit from the Iran nuclear deal, the South Koreans, the North Koreans, our trading partners and just about everyone else on the planet supposed to think? The answer, sadly, is that Trump is irrational and unreliable. Our allies will take matters into their own hands (e.g., the European Union may decide it is better to deal with the relative certainty of the Iran deal than the Trump-induced chaos); our adversaries will take aggressive action, unaware of what our bottom line really is.
On the veto Trump apparently was bluffing. Onh the Iran nuclear deal, tariffs, personnel changes and the Russia investigation —it is not clear whether Trump is panicked bluffing, or is panicked and so desperate as to take dramatic, dangerous action to preserve his image of a “winner,” and to convince himself it is he, not any adviser or lawyer, who deserves “credit.”
As Ian Bassin, the executive director of the nonpartisan Protect Democracy group tweeted, “With Bolton, [Joseph E.] diGenova and [Mike] Pompeo feeding Trump’s worst instincts, we’re entering incredibly dangerous times.” (He could add to the list Peter Navarro, Cotton, the right-wing echo chamber and his favorite Fox News propagandists — all of whom egg on Trump without regard for the catastrophe that might await us if he followed their advice.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ential-temper-tantrum/?utm_term=.d1f364c15421
So he throws his followers who trusted him, under the bus. No one trusts Trump without ultimately regretting it.
