The Daily 202: Trump signals to his base that he is a man of action
By James Hohmann June 6 at 11:15 AM
THE BIG IDEA: Some have called him crazy. He thinks hes crazy like a fox.
Lets dispense once and for all with the fiction that Donald Trump doesnt have a strategy. It may be a deeply-flawed strategy for reasons the neophyte president is not yet savvy enough to appreciate, but make no mistake: there is a strategy.
The conventional wisdom around Washington is that Trump is being impulsive as he disregards the counsel of his lawyers, who are correctly warning him that the travel ban may not survive a Supreme Court review if he continues to talk about it the way he does.
Yet the president has now explicitly called for a TRAVEL BAN five separate times on Twitter over the past four days. Undercutting the spin that he was just reacting to a morning cable segment he saw on TV before coming downstairs to work, his social media team posted a video on Facebook (an account he doesnt personally control) that featured the tweets set to dramatic music.
He posted this at 9:20 p.m. last night:
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