In one week, 4 major Trump-policy spins and flips

In one week, 4 major Trump-policy spins and flips

Trump flip-flopped again and said he would revisit closing the border in a year. That's quite the 'national emergency' that can be postponed a year.

4/6/19
President Donald Trump likes to spin his finger in a circle and make a whirring noise when he's making fun of wind turbines as a source of renewable energy. But it was the President's policies that were spinning this week as he retreated from a number of bold pronouncements, policy ideas and nominees. If you're keeping score:

• The border with Mexico will not be closed.

• Republicans will not soon present a replacement for the Affordable Care Act.

• He doesn't actually think the Mueller report on Russian election interference should be publicly released.

• His nominee to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement is his nominee no longer.

What's on display is a President who just says things that pop into his head or announces policies via Twitter -- then must find ways to retreat from them or make them real. Did he ever really believe he would close the entire border with Mexico, or was it just bluster? After the utter disappointment of failing to repeal Obamacare, for which Trump still carries a festering grudge, did he sincerely think it would get another vote? That Trump often says incorrect things about issues big and small has been well-documented. Just this week, for some mystifying reason, he repeated his untrue contention that his father was born in Germany. But his credibility, such as it is, faces new questions as the week draws to a close.

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Donald Trump has no credibility. Not an iota of credibility. Rule of thumb: If Trumps lips are moving, he is lying.

Yep, Trump's constant blurting out of "things that he is seriously considering" is not helping him appear to be a leader. It's fine for him to do so in cabinet/staff meetings (assuming that they are not leaked), but to publicly announce "decisions" which are simply half-baked concepts as if they were (or will become) national policy or had any chance of being implemented hurts him politically and makes him appear to be very wishy-washy (unstable?).

Rogue Valley said:

In one week, 4 major Trump-policy spins and flips

Trump flip-flopped again and said he would revisit closing the border in a year. That's quite the 'national emergency' that can be postponed a year.

Donald Trump has no credibility. Not an iota of credibility. Rule of thumb: If Trumps lips are moving, he is lying.

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Didn't he also threaten to apply tariffs on auto parts from Canada, after crowing about what a great deal he'd made with the USAMC pact?
Guy's dragging the reputation of the US into the gutter.

Grand Mal said:

Guy's dragging the reputation of the US into the gutter.

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That's because Trump operates from the gutter.

Rogue Valley said:

In one week, 4 major Trump-policy spins and flips

Trump flip-flopped again and said he would revisit closing the border in a year. That's quite the 'national emergency' that can be postponed a year.

Donald Trump has no credibility. Not an iota of credibility. Rule of thumb: If Trumps lips are moving, he is lying.

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And the continuing confusion of the TDS LEFT'S UTTER IGNORANCE of actual NEGOTIATING SKILLS , as opposed to the Left's preferred ANKLE GRABBING, remains a source of great amusement, to the NON-REALITY-CHALLENGED.... :lamo

ttwtt78640 said:

Yep, Trump's constant blurting out of "things that he is seriously considering" is not helping him appear to be a leader. It's fine for him to do so in cabinet/staff meetings (assuming that they are not leaked), but to publicly announce "decisions" which are simply half-baked concepts as if they were (or will become) national policy or had any chance of being implemented hurts him politically and makes him appear to be very wishy-washy (unstable?).

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I think Trumps views these things as negotiations and his philosophy is to stake out a starting position of asking for more than he expects to receive from the other side.

His threat to close the border was an attempt to get both the Mexican government and Congress to make other concessions to prevent it from happening. Whether or not it's an effective management style is debatable but the press coverage is invested in making it appear as ineffective and as wreck less as they can paint it as.

His rhetoric about Healthcare is an attempt to reframe the debate that Republicans lost in the 2016 election. He needs to change the perception that democrats are the only ones who care about people's Healthcare and they are the only ones who have any ideas on how to improve the system. Frankly I think the Republican party is making a huge mistake for not following his lead on it for 2 very big reasons.

1. With having a split gov in place it forces both sides to negotiate a bipartisan agreement. That allows them all to take credit for anything that's successful and gives them political cover of blaming the other party for anything that fails.

2. If the SCOTUS rules Obama care is unconstitutional they are all going to be forced to address the issue. It's politically better for them to be perceived as eager to roll up their sleeves and dig into finding the best solution than to look like they are trying to avoid the issue like a bunch of cowards.

Trump attempted to take a losing issue for his party and transform it into a winner. The GOP is too dumb to see it.

What the OP claims about Trump changing his position on the Mueller report is flat out false. Trumps position has always been that he wants it be released to the public and he deferred to his AG how much of it can be. He recently added that no matter how much is released he expects that the results won't be satisfactory to the Democratic party. He has made no attempts to stop it from being released or even exercised his executive privilege to preview it.

I know nothing about his immigration nominee but I suspect it's much ado about nothing as that has become commonplace with media coverage like this.

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trouble13 said:

I think Trumps views these things as negotiations and his philosophy is to stake out a starting position of asking for more than he expects to receive from the other side.

His threat to close the border was an attempt to get both the Mexican government and Congress to make other concessions to prevent it from happening. Whether or not it's an effective management style is debatable but the press coverage is invested in making it appear as ineffective and as wreck less as they can paint it as....

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First of all, his 'philosophy' on negotiating has clearly failed, but don't expect him to adapt or change. Those are words he does not live by.

...His rhetoric about Healthcare is an attempt to reframe the debate that Republicans lost in the 2016 election. He needs to change the perception that democrats are the only ones who care about people's Healthcare...

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Good luck with that.

...What the OP claims about Trump changing his position on the Mueller report is flat out false. Trumps position has always been that he wants it be released to the public and he deferred to his AG how much of it can be...

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If he told Barr to release the report, he would.

Just like his claim that he always wanted to release his tax returns, but 'can't' because of his 12 year audit. Do you believe that lie too?

Rogue Valley said:

In one week, 4 major Trump-policy spins and flips

Trump flip-flopped again and said he would revisit closing the border in a year. That's quite the 'national emergency' that can be postponed a year.

Donald Trump has no credibility. Not an iota of credibility. Rule of thumb: If Trumps lips are moving, he is lying.

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Old news, I celebrated the return of avocados days ago.

ttwtt78640 said:

Yep, Trump's constant blurting out of "things that he is seriously considering" is not helping him appear to be a leader. It's fine for him to do so in cabinet/staff meetings (assuming that they are not leaked), but to publicly announce "decisions" which are simply half-baked concepts as if they were (or will become) national policy or had any chance of being implemented hurts him politically and makes him appear to be very wishy-washy (unstable?).

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Not wishy washy, stupid. Because we can tell he has no idea of the implications of most of his spouting: the wall, ending the ACA, trans people in the military, closing the borders, etc.

And always a solid piece of evidence, "Who knew that healthcare was so complicated?"

runner up: "Mexico will pay for the wall."

Some of us know he has no clue the moment he makes a statement.

What's even sadder is...The Donald knows this when he's 'winging it for campaign votes' and believes implicitly that his followers will swallow all of it and/or defend it later.

Grokmaster said:

And the continuing confusion of the tds left's utter ignorance of actual negotiating skils , as opposed to the Left's preferred ankle grabbing, remains a source of great amusement, to the non-reality-challenged

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Your post addresses nothing of the subject, it is just an angry screaming post that accomplishes nothing, as usual. Talk about reality challenged....

Face it, your cult leader bombed again, and looked like an ass doing it.

Lursa said:

Not wishy washy, stupid. Because we can tell he has no idea of the implications of most of his spouting: the wall, ending the ACA, trans people in the military, closing the borders, etc.

And always a solid piece of evidence, "Who knew that healthcare was so complicated?"

runner up: "Mexico will pay for the wall."

Some of us know he has no clue the moment he makes a statement.

What's even sadder is...The Donald knows this when he's 'winging it for campaign votes' and believes implicitly that his followers will swallow all of it and/or defend it later.

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Yep, as to the bolded above - see post #6.

ttwtt78640 said:

Yep, as to the bolded above - see post #6.

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:doh

Yeah, I had missed that.

He's the worst president in American history.

Richard Nixon was an infinitely better president than Trump.