Bugsy McGurk
President
What a dealmaker, eh?
In business, Trump spent decades intimidating people with bluster and threats as he ran his business scams, suing suppliers rather than paying them, and the like. His “skillset” has no use in DC government. He just can’t make a deal.
He proved that again with the spending bill craziness. He knew he needed 60 Senate votes for the bill and he couldn’t even get 50 GOP Senate votes. Only 45 GOP senators voted for it.
And how did he try to woo some Dem support as he grew so desperate that he actually tried to get bipartisan support for the bill? He summoned Chuck Schumer to the White House, they talked things over, Trump tweeted that they had a great meeting, Schumer couldn’t get Mitch McConnell to follow through, and it fell apart. Get that? Trump then needed to get McConnell to bend, so he asked Schumer to do it. Trump didn’t see it as part of his leadership role to convince McConnell. Must have been something good on TV.
And consider Team Trump’s juvenile attempt to bend Schumer along the way. The “strategy” was to have Trump’s assistant liar, Mick Mulvaney, label the then-possible shutdown as the “Schumer shutdown,” and the word was sent forth, with many Republicans repeating that alliterative idiocy.
Trump clearly thought that he could pressure Schumer into yielding with the “Schumer shutdown” jive, as nonsense like that was Trump’s M.O. in business. Of course, Schumer couldn’t give a damn - he faces no threat when running for reelection. Trump thought he could force a deal that way, but in DC his business world tactics are useless, and often counter-productive.
Bottom line - Trump can’t make a deal when true dealmaking finesse is required. Bludgeoning DC people just doesn’t work, nor does allowing his GOP colleagues in Congress to drift aimlessly asking Trump to tell them what he will sign. So, the Senate bill only gets 45 GOP votes, it fails, and Trump does what he always does - he refuses to take any responsibility, whines, inanely blames the Dems when there weren’t even 50 GOP votes, and tweets that the solution is more GOP victories in the 2018 midterms. Gross incompetence.
The Art of the Shutdown.
In business, Trump spent decades intimidating people with bluster and threats as he ran his business scams, suing suppliers rather than paying them, and the like. His “skillset” has no use in DC government. He just can’t make a deal.
He proved that again with the spending bill craziness. He knew he needed 60 Senate votes for the bill and he couldn’t even get 50 GOP Senate votes. Only 45 GOP senators voted for it.
And how did he try to woo some Dem support as he grew so desperate that he actually tried to get bipartisan support for the bill? He summoned Chuck Schumer to the White House, they talked things over, Trump tweeted that they had a great meeting, Schumer couldn’t get Mitch McConnell to follow through, and it fell apart. Get that? Trump then needed to get McConnell to bend, so he asked Schumer to do it. Trump didn’t see it as part of his leadership role to convince McConnell. Must have been something good on TV.
And consider Team Trump’s juvenile attempt to bend Schumer along the way. The “strategy” was to have Trump’s assistant liar, Mick Mulvaney, label the then-possible shutdown as the “Schumer shutdown,” and the word was sent forth, with many Republicans repeating that alliterative idiocy.
Trump clearly thought that he could pressure Schumer into yielding with the “Schumer shutdown” jive, as nonsense like that was Trump’s M.O. in business. Of course, Schumer couldn’t give a damn - he faces no threat when running for reelection. Trump thought he could force a deal that way, but in DC his business world tactics are useless, and often counter-productive.
Bottom line - Trump can’t make a deal when true dealmaking finesse is required. Bludgeoning DC people just doesn’t work, nor does allowing his GOP colleagues in Congress to drift aimlessly asking Trump to tell them what he will sign. So, the Senate bill only gets 45 GOP votes, it fails, and Trump does what he always does - he refuses to take any responsibility, whines, inanely blames the Dems when there weren’t even 50 GOP votes, and tweets that the solution is more GOP victories in the 2018 midterms. Gross incompetence.
The Art of the Shutdown.
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