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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTPM - "Trump Prepping To Fold Like a Cheap Suit on Wall Demand ... SAD!" (LOL Josh Marshall!)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-prepping-to-fold-like-a-cheap-suit-on-wall-demand-sadBy JOSH MARSHALL Published APRIL 24, 2017, 5:37 PM EDT
I want to go back to the point I made this weekend, which is that President Trumps threat to shut the government down and kick people off insurance (by pulling subsidies) if Democrats didnt agree to fund the wall is just a big time political loser.
I stick to that point. But lets see what now seems to be happening. President Trumps advisors are now signaling that Trump plans to back down because he knows hell lose. In other words, Mr Winning, Dominating, Make the Best Deals is about to go Low Energy and walk away from a sure loss while trying to pretend it never happened.
Folks on the Hill are saying they dont think there needs to be shutdown. President Trumps key advisors and spokespeople are today saying, well, it doesnt really have to be money for the wall. Anything tied to border security will do.
Lets not ignore whats happening here. President Trumps OMB Director Mulvaney said very clearly: dollar for dollar, you get $1 for Obamacare (actually, one not taken from Obamacare) in exchange for every dollar you give us for the bosss wall.
Even Trump got in on it
ObamaCare is in serious trouble. The Dems need big money to keep it going otherwise it dies far sooner than anyone would have thought.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2017
The Democrats dont want money from budget going to border wall despite the fact that it will stop drugs and very bad MS 13 gang members.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2017
Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2017
And yet, just days later, Trump appears ready to go full low-energy, agreeing to call any money tied to border security or even paperwork a wall, not a brick and mortar wall as Republicans have been explaining today but rather a conceptual wall which is to say, not a wall.
Trump for either a major stumble by going for a shutdown test of wills or an ignominious fold, LOW ENERGY! SAD! and all the rest.
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our fucking asshole president, as we all know, is simply a pathetic fraud!
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TPM - "Trump Prepping To Fold Like a Cheap Suit on Wall Demand ... SAD!" (LOL Josh Marshall!) (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Apr 2017
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Ilsa
(61,698 posts)1. DT should crowd fund his stupid wall.
Start a GoFundMe page for his supporters to pay for it. Then see how thrilled they are to cough up several thousand dollars if it isn't a hidden expense for them.
mercuryblues
(14,542 posts)2. So trump is going to fold
like one of his suits, Cheap shit made in a foreign county. America 1st!