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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHis Walkout From This Meeting Today Was Part 2 Of His Plan To Shift Blame To The Dems.....
Part 1 was his oval office speech yesterday. Part 2 is his trying to make the Dems look bad by walking out of this meeting. Part 3 is his visit to the border - I think tomorrow - if it is still on. I'm sure that that border visit will be choreographed in his favor with a bunch of people taking his side.
The good thing is that the American People aren't buying it and the poll numbers are going south for Trump.
brooklynite
(94,384 posts)There is NO evidence that anything Trump does is part of a plan. He and his staff are not that smart.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)and they couldn't plan their way out of a wet paper bag. But that doesn't mean that they don't have a strategy. It's just a bad strategy. Thank Dog!
brooklynite
(94,384 posts)From my view, every action is an immediate emotional response to the current situation.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)They planned the meeting with Pelosi and Schumer today.
They planned for Shitler to go to the border for a photo op.
Granted, these are silly stunts, but they did require planning.
And I agree with you that all of the afore-mentioned are "emotional responses", but they did require planning. These fools just aren't very good at strategy.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)They have a string of ideas. But they are uncoordinated. He didn't even want today's meeting, or apparently last nights address. So he is/was unprepared and they were unprepared for his reaction and form of participation. There was no follow through on either. It was pointed out last night that there were no fact sheets or other press materials to support his claims in the speech.
So one can view these as bad plans, or one can see them as a string of off the cuff actions that are as reactionary as they are calculated.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)dem4decades
(11,270 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,730 posts)Keep playing it. Both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were strong in their positions that they oppose a Wall, but not Border Security. They have been consistent. Trump has been all over the place from one moment to the next.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,396 posts)Democrats should take the blame because......he walks out?
underpants
(182,632 posts)Even when his vast empire was reduced to being on a TV show, selling his name, and basically running a hotel decorating business he still had his bubble who worshipped and adored him. He pitted people against each other for his own amusement. He thinks that his walking out is a stain on THEM.
Initech
(100,043 posts)Is this like Infinity War? Instead of finding six stones he's finding six ways to blame the dems... I don't want to know what's on the other end of the snap.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)To divide and distract the country, redirect attention away from putin and his conspiring with him, and all the corruption they are involved in . trump is running a putin disinformation campaign for him now. He's doing the same things putin did in russia.
manor321
(3,344 posts)He's just upset he has no way out