Trump Looks for New Venue for Speech, as Democrats Draft Border Security Plan
Source: NY Times
WASHINGTON President Trump said Wednesday that he would look for another venue for his State of the Union address after an afternoon of brinkmanship with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who told the president that he was not welcome to deliver the speech in the House chamber while the government is partly closed.
The presidents seeming capitulation came even as House Democratic leaders said they were prepared to give him a substantial sum of money for border security perhaps even the $5.7 billion he has requested but not for a wall and not until he agreed to reopen the government. That figure is roughly double what Democrats had previously approved.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/us/politics/government-shutdown-democrats-deal-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Oh, man. Well-played, Dems! That headline is for the ages. Posting it again, below, so I can feast on it a bit more:
Trump Looks for New Venue for Speech, as Democrats Draft Border Security Plan
msongs
(67,421 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)He tweeted that he'll give the speech after shutdown is over.
See here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142251142
C Moon
(12,215 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)Berlin Expat
(950 posts)Trump could give the SOTU address to the Russian Duma.
Trump caved, and even though most of his delusional followers will try to portray this as some kind of "victory", the truth is he just got his fat ass handed to him.
And we all know that's gonna stick in his craw like little else.
joshdawg
(2,651 posts)where he could "deliver" his speech.
But, there's no tp, just a used corncob.
elmac
(4,642 posts)my dad hung a very professional hand painted sign over the door, House of Republican Representation