President Trump

In One Rocky Week, Trump’s Self-Inflicted Chaos on Vivid Display


After another week of controversies, President Trump planned a weekend at Mar-a-Lago.

WASHINGTON — Minutes before President Trump was to take the stage in Nashville last week to make his case for the health care overhaul he had promised, he received some unwelcome news that shifted his script.

A federal district court judge in Hawaii had just placed another stay on his ban on travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries, dealing his order a second legal setback in two months. As a country music duo crooned in an auditorium still filling with adoring supporters of Mr. Trump, the president fumed backstage and huddled with his staff for a hasty re-drafting of the speech.

When Mr. Trump emerged, he decided to relegate the health care overhaul, which he has identified as a top domestic priority, to a brief mention more than halfway through the speech. He instead replaced its prime billing with an angry diatribe against the travel ban ruling and the judge who had issued it.

“I have to be nice, otherwise I’ll get criticized for speaking poorly about our courts,” Mr. Trump said. But he could not help himself: The president soon suggested the court that had just ruled against him should be destroyed. “People are screaming, ‘Break up the Ninth Circuit!’ ”

Once again, Mr. Trump’s agenda was subsumed by problems of his own making, his message undercut by a seemingly endless stream of controversy he cannot seem to stop himself from feeding.

The health care measure appears on track for a House vote this coming week, and the president, who planned a weekend of relaxation at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., club, is likely to receive a large measure of the credit. But it has also become clear that Mr. Trump, an agitator incapable of responding proportionately to any slight, appears hellbent on squandering his honeymoon.

Instead, he has sowed chaos in his own West Wing, and talked or tweeted his way into trouble, over and over again.

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Ted Cruz is handicapped?

In truth, when he got elected, I had the slight hope that he would surround himself with a more balanced group of people..

Trump is right about the NATO thing, though. Germany and many other European countries have not spent the money they needed to spend on Defense according to the 2% margin that they universally agreed upon.

Thank you for pointing out and confirming one more time that you, indeed, overreacted.

A thought that is NOT lost on me is the fact that three or more people share my sentiment of not liking what you had to say initially. THAT is a thought that isn't lost on me.

Many of his supporters are just taking and accepting his claims at face value with little to no question. That's the danger of certain leaders: many of them garner a following of supporters who follow them around like lemmings and instantly buy into whatever their leader tells them. It's like the "hive mind" mentality.

there's no other way to be a trump supporter

For a guy who made fun of the handicapped?



No.

Unfair. The media are people, and some are bad some are good and some are middling, just like all of us. Same for politicians. I could point out many reporters who've tenaciously held onto stories that have brought justice to wrongful acts. Not all politicians are self serving power hungry megalomaniacs, only some of them are. Lots of them work really hard for their constituents in a demanding profession.

Jesus...the man has about as much in the way of manners, class and bravado as a noisy uncle nobody likes at a table at Thanksgiving talking with his mouth full.

There is NOTHING presidential about this man aside from his title.

Awful lot of cocky 1-monthers around here.

Wut the? Are you back again?

Hullo. Tell me something, Dani, what do you think of Trump's fiscal policies?

Tell me something, protazoa, do you always take territory over a tree and cock your leg over it?