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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is Trump announcing tomorrow afternoon?
Something about the "humanitarian crisis at the border, and the shutdown".
Thanks in advance.
manor321
(3,344 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)That's my guess.
a kennedy
(29,682 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)But what else would it be?
Voltaire2
(13,082 posts)Rosco T.
(6,496 posts)my bet, "National Emergency, I;m building my wall out of disaster relief funds... fuck real victims"
long shot, "Reopening government and we'll go for 30 billion for my wall"
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)brettdale
(12,383 posts)"There is a problem at the border"
"The dems are doing nothing"
"Call your congressman"
blah blah blah.
There will be nothing earth shattering.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)The response was a collective yawn. My thinking is tomorrow he goes with the national emergency. It's his only out at this point short of surrender.
PSPS
(13,604 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Who knows the twisted mind of that flaming asshole?
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)He'll end the shutdown and declare a national emergency. The courts will tie it up and he'll be clear of it. Ultimately Trump doesn't care about a wall. If he did he would have gotten it done his first two years. He just wants his base rabid and ready, and this will keep him from losing face. Trump's approval is in free fall and this shutdown is damaging him. He knows he can't let it go on for much longer. He also knows by now that the Dems aren't going to budge, something he didn't believe at first. He honestly thought he could throw his weight around and they would cave.
Basically he's got three options, and a national emergency is the one that will end the shutdown the soonest and save him face. The other two are carry the shutdown for two more years, which would be disastrous for him, the Republicans, and the country, or have enough Republicans defect and override him. Neither of those two possibilities are anywhere near as appealing to him as the national emergency one, which would save him the most face.
Which is why he will go with the national emergency.
CincyDem
(6,371 posts)The Caravan is Coming. The Caravan is Coming.
Mme. Defarge
(8,036 posts)McConnell, Jared and Pence all met together with Individual 1.
C_U_L8R
(45,005 posts)Coronates self Emperor for life. The crown is gold and the cape red, oversized to clownish proportions like his neckties. Hands still look teeny and brain is like that of a halfwit. Country renamed Trumpville.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)drumpf has no other way to save ugly face over his absurd wall.