After boxing himself in on shutdown, Trump tells aides to find way out that doesn't disgrace him
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/7/1824223/-After-boxing-himself-in-on-shutdown-Trump-asks-aides-to-find-way-out-that-doesn-t-disgrace-himAfter boxing himself in on shutdown, Trump tells aides to find way out that doesn't disgrace him
Kerry Eleveld
Daily Kos Staff
Monday January 07, 2019 · 2:19 PM EST
Donald Trump has personally led two negotiations with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. During the first one in late December, he declared that he would be "proud" to shut down the government over his precious border wall. During the second one last week, Trump threatened the shutdown could last for "months or even years" and later bragged to reporters that he "absolutely" said that.
But now that nearly 1 million federal workers are furloughed or working without pay, the national parks have become literal wastelands, and airport chaos is ensuing, Trump's getting skittish and wants his aides to find him a way out of this gigantic mess, according to the Wall Street Journal.
So Trump doesn't want to be seen as capitulating? Well, no shit, Sherlock. Welcome to Politics 101—you don't box yourself into an impossible position without having a vision for your endgame and leaving room for a compromise that you can play up as a "win." But instead of taking time to envision his escape in advance, master negotiator Trump went into those meetings guns blazing and delivered a shoot-em-up routine that landed him in a bunker without any backup. Total “stable genius.”
Even as that Camp David meeting unfolded, instead of tamping down expectations for how this would all resolve, Trump's negotiators asked for even MORE money in their weekend meeting with congressional staffers. In the meantime, his surrogates continue to barricade him in the bunker.
“This continues to be the signature campaign issue that he outlined that needs to be fulfilled,” former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told the Journal.
Good god, Trump is bad at this. So very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very f*cking miserably bad at this.
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The only people you need to fool are your supporters! The rest of us and whoever keeps leaking these stories already know the truth.
What a fucking idiocrat!
he's in another corner in the same room IQ45 painted himself into. He's got a bucket-full of cash from Vlad and the NRA and he knows that if IQ45 goes down he might escape from the stink-eye. He also knows that he could go down with IQ45 - not a great thought for him either.
So, McTurtle hangs strong hoping that IQ45 hangs strong, or they'll all go swirling down the drain straight to hell.
Oh, and that cackling sound you just heard, that's Speaker Pelosi pulling the stopper out of the drain! 
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MAGA!
Somebody in the White House needs to figure this out, and start leading him by giving him "opposite" advice.
Although, I think it's been the GOP's plan all along to gamble on Dems caving to M$M repeating the GOP's calls by this Friday. Unfortunately for them, their gamble isn't going to pay off...this time, even with the M$M's complicit help.
Coulter could turn out dad?
