He seemed super upbeat
Trump is jumping up and down with glee at how he stuck it to the…er…Republicans yesterday. He gloated about it in North Dakota last night and then this morning he called up Pelosi and Schumer to gloat with them. Which is hilarious, in a nauseating kind of way.
Many Republicans were furious with President Donald Trump’s budget deal Wednesday, stunned that the president quickly gave in to Democratic demands to pair hurricane relief with a three-month debt limit hike — though getting nothing in return.
But in calls with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Thursday morning, Trump raved about the positive news coverage it had received, according to people familiar with the calls, and he seemed very pleased with his decision.
No cries of Fake News? No “failing New York Times”? No “Crying Chuck Schumer”?
Trump specifically mentioned TV segments praising the deal and indicated he’d been watching in a call with Schumer, two people said. And he was jovial in a call with Pelosi and agreed to send a tweet she asked for about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, these people said, while also mentioning the attention the deal had gotten. He indicated to both leaders he would be willing to work together again.
“He seemed super upbeat,” one person familiar with the calls said.
In other words, he’s a buffoon, a lunatic two-scoops buffoon. He’s manic because THE PEOPLE ON THE TV SAID HE’S AWESOME.
Up is down, black is white, cats and dogs living together etc etc. Fox News was piling on the scorn on Ryan and McConnell and praising Trump for working with Democrats. I wondered if I was having a psychotic break.
My husband and I have speculated frequently about what (if anything) might be the straw that breaks the Republican camel’s back. We’d concluded that there was nothing, that no matter how appalling Trump was, they’d grit their teeth, smile and nod, to get their tax cuts for rich people and take healthcare away from undeserving poor people. But perhaps we were wrong. Perhaps the thing that makes the GOP go ‘oh, Hell, no’ is Trump being on the Democrats’ side. Pelosi and Schumer have played an absolute blinder here (as they say in my home country), decoupling the Dreamer hostages from hurricane assistance funds.
That’s not to say this is comfortable for the Dreamers themselves, who still face at best months of uncertainty and fear. But it puts Democrats in a stronger position to negotiate, once we’re on the other side of the current hurricane crises. A cold and calculating way to look at it? Maybe. But politics is like that sometimes, and sometimes watching the sausage get made ain’t pretty.
Maybe orange marshmallow thinks he will need assistance rebuilding his castles in the south after a fake hurricane takes them down.
Maybe it’ll be like training a dog, and Trump will start working with Democrats more often just for the positive media coverage?
On just his first day in office, President Trump blatantly lied to the American people about the size of his inaugural crowd.
Republican leaders shrugged off criticism of the President, saying that nobody really expects Trump to literally mean what he says.
President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, and admitted in a subsequent interview that the reasons given in the termination letter were pretextual, and the real reason was Trump’s frustration with the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russian intelligence.
Republican leaders described themselves as “concerned.”
After neo-Nazi violence claimed the life of a peaceful protester in Charlottesville, President Trump declined to disavow white nationalism, and insisted that there were good people marching with the neo-Nazis.
Republican leaders expressed disappointment with the president’s language.
Trump used his pardon power to excuse a racist thug sheriff who abused his authority and flaunted court orders.
Republican leaders expressed polite disagreement with the decision.
Trump cut a budget deal with Democrats.
Now, Republicans are “furious.”
@Screechy Monkey Your post is a thing of beauty. I want to see this all over the intertubes. :-)
musubk, #3, that’s something I’ve been thinking for a while; media praise to Trump is like a tinkling bell to Pavlov’s dogs.
Screechy Monkey, it’s oft been said that it would take something drastic for the Republican high-ups to turn on Trump. I bet they never dreamt he’d go this far.
Claire, thanks. I wish I was an artist — it would work better as a comic strip, with Paul and Mitch et al shrugging, furrowing their brows, etc.
AoS — I’ve often joked that the only way Trump gets impeached, at least by this Congress, is if he tries to raise taxes.
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That’s precisely my appraisal of Republican morality: a Republican president can do absolutely anything provided he stays loyal to the R core principle of rigging the nation’s legal machinery to help only themselves. Siding with Democrats – or being a Democrat – is the only evil in their eyes, even though they’re almost as pro-corporate and pro-war as the right.