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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Jan 20, 2019, 10:33 PM Jan 2019

Trump two years in: The dealmaker who can't seem to make a deal

Donald Trump was elected president partly by assuring the American people that “I alone can fix it.”

But precisely two years into his presidency, the government is not simply broken — it is in crisis, and Trump is grappling with the reality that he cannot fix it alone.

Trump’s management of the partial government shutdown — his first foray in divided government — has exposed as never before his shortcomings as a dealmaker. The president has been adamant about securing $5.7 billion in public money to construct his long-promised border wall, but has not won over congressional Democrats, who consider the wall immoral and have refused to negotiate over border security until the government reopens.

The 30-day shutdown — the impacts of which have begun rippling beyond the federal workforce into the everyday lives of millions of Americans — is defining the second half of Trump’s term and has set a foundation for the nascent 2020 presidential campaign.

The shutdown also has accentuated several fundamental traits of Trump’s presidency: his apparent shortage of empathy, in this case for furloughed workers; his difficulty accepting responsibility for a crisis he had said he would be proud to instigate; his tendency for revenge when it comes to one-upping political foes; and his seeming misunderstanding of Democrats’ motivations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-two-years-in-the-dealmaker-who-cant-seem-to-make-a-deal/ar-BBSvPrc?li=BBnbcA1

Trump was elected president by some quirk known as the electoral college.

Anyone who's known about Trump for any time knows he's a shitty businessman. His main claim to fame over the years is self promotion to unaware suckers.

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