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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJennifer Rubin, WaPo: "You cannot get thumped any worse than Trump did on this encounter w/ Pelosi"
Trump lost. Period.
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
January 25 at 3:04 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/25/president-trump-lost-period/
Things continue until they dont. The senseless, cruel government shutdown ended on Friday. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had vowed she would not give anything until the government reopened. President Trump had promised he wouldnt reopen the government without funding for his border wall. Now, Pelosi is getting what she wants. Trump has lost. The deal would reopen the government for three weeks to allow a conference committee to discuss border security measures but not a wall.
Trump said in the Rose Garden that he was proud to announce that a deal had been reached, though it was nothing more than a capitulation. The president agreed to reopen the government for three weeks, making a vague (and now, more than ever, empty) threat to declare an emergency if money for the wall was not included in negotiations. He then launched into a harangue of the type that has not in many of his speeches shifted public opinion. "We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier, Trump insisted. He rambled on, reciting yet again some story about women smuggled in cars with their mouths taped shuts. (His own advisers and border agents have no idea what he is referring to.) His mini-tirade about the wall reminded anyone who cared that he is not getting it.
You cannot get thumped any worse than Trump did on this encounter with Pelosi. Each step along the way, the president stumbled. He told Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) I will be the one to shut it down. Hed be proud to do it! He wouldnt blame them! He was then ready to sign a clean continuing resolution until he listed to Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and provoked a shutdown anyway.
In the iconic video from December, Schumer can barely contain his laughter. Inside, surely he was jumping up and down, delighting in Trumps political malpractice.
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
January 25 at 3:04 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/25/president-trump-lost-period/
Things continue until they dont. The senseless, cruel government shutdown ended on Friday. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had vowed she would not give anything until the government reopened. President Trump had promised he wouldnt reopen the government without funding for his border wall. Now, Pelosi is getting what she wants. Trump has lost. The deal would reopen the government for three weeks to allow a conference committee to discuss border security measures but not a wall.
Trump said in the Rose Garden that he was proud to announce that a deal had been reached, though it was nothing more than a capitulation. The president agreed to reopen the government for three weeks, making a vague (and now, more than ever, empty) threat to declare an emergency if money for the wall was not included in negotiations. He then launched into a harangue of the type that has not in many of his speeches shifted public opinion. "We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier, Trump insisted. He rambled on, reciting yet again some story about women smuggled in cars with their mouths taped shuts. (His own advisers and border agents have no idea what he is referring to.) His mini-tirade about the wall reminded anyone who cared that he is not getting it.
You cannot get thumped any worse than Trump did on this encounter with Pelosi. Each step along the way, the president stumbled. He told Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) I will be the one to shut it down. Hed be proud to do it! He wouldnt blame them! He was then ready to sign a clean continuing resolution until he listed to Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and provoked a shutdown anyway.
In the iconic video from December, Schumer can barely contain his laughter. Inside, surely he was jumping up and down, delighting in Trumps political malpractice.
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Jennifer Rubin, WaPo: "You cannot get thumped any worse than Trump did on this encounter w/ Pelosi" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2019
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Glad it's over, but not really laughing
A lot of damage was needlessly and cruelly inflicted on the country thanks to Trump and McConnell. And what did those two brainiacs get with this "deal" that they couldn't get weeks ago? Not a damned thing. But a whole bunch of people got behind on their rent, had to ration their medications, and took a hit on their credit scores. So, there's that.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,552 posts)3. exactly
There was and will be suffering from this and every bit of it is pointless.
LonePirate
(13,441 posts)2. She really did kick his ass since she became Speaker on Jan. 3.
ooky
(8,933 posts)4. He embarrassed himself pretty bad in Helsinki too.
Unless Putin had forced him to dance in a diaper on the stage it probably couldn't have got much worse.
But yeah, this was bad for him and the Republicans. Very, very bad.