Coil:

 

You are meant to have a badge but I do not see it.

Me either. Maybe it wasn't me after all.

The Washington Post - The 10 worst things Trump did in 2018

 

10. His comment about “sh--hole” countries blew up negotiations for a deal that would have given Trump his border wall.

 

09. His offensive tweets continued to undermine his presidency.

 

08. His misuse of power turned critics into martyrs.

 

07. He drove away suburban voters and caused the GOP to lose control of the House.

 

06. His graceless handling of Sen. John McCain’s funeral was a new low.

 

05. His handling of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder harmed America’s moral standing.

 

04. His news conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki was an embarrassment.

 

03. His policy to separate migrant children from their families at the southern border was an avoidable tragedy.

 

02. His planned withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan is a gift to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

 

01. His pullout of all U.S. troops in Syria will take America’s boot off of the terrorists’ necks.

 

The Washington Post - A defensive Trump calls a Cabinet meeting and uses it to boast, deflect and distract

January 2 at 8:13 PM

Business as usual ...  

President Trump, 12 days into a government shutdown and facing new scrutiny from emboldened Democrats, inaugurated the new year Wednesday with a Cabinet meeting.

 

It quickly became a 95-minute stream-of-consciousness defense of his presidency and worldview, filled with falsehoods, revisionist history and self-aggrandizement. ...

 

CNN Politics - Tomorrow is the day Donald Trump's presidency totally changes

 

Washington (CNN)    Donald Trump may not realize it totally yet, but today was the last easy-ish day of his presidency. ...

 

Starting tomorrow, Democrats in the House will make Trump's life a living hell. ...

 

Trump, a political neophyte prior to the 2016 race, has never had to deal with this sort of opposition before. ...

 

Democrats can now do Trump real political damage using the official means of their House majority. ...

 

Trump claims to understand this, with his self-professed titanic intellect. ...

 

tdgeek:

Romney lining up to go against Trump in 2020

gzt:

tdgeek:

 

Romney lining up to go against Trump in 2020

 

It's good to see the potential Republican presidential candidates trying to outcompete each other about who can sound least like Trump for the win.

I feel its a foregone conclusion that Romney will get the nomination. Many Republican senators do not like Trump, they see what he is doing, but they want Republicans to be in power, so they replace Trump with someone who is known, normal, and NOT Trump. As well as avoiding voter abandonment, Romney will favour the rust belt even if its just words, we will continue what Trump started but do it properly and so on. He cannot lose.

For the nomination we might guess there is a small % of senators who want Trump out. I suspect the vast majority do. I suspect his closest supporters do as well. When all this falls into place, Trump will withdraw his bid due to [fake] health issues "If it wasn't for this, I'd win easy, I would, we all know that."

Its a means for a narcissist to exit stage left

tdgeek:

 

gzt:

tdgeek:

 

Romney lining up to go against Trump in 2020

 

It's good to see the potential Republican presidential candidates trying to outcompete each other about who can sound least like Trump for the win.

 

I feel its a foregone conclusion that Romney will get the nomination. Many Republican senators do not like Trump, they see what he is doing, but they want Republicans to be in power, so they replace Trump with someone who is known, normal, and NOT Trump. As well as avoiding voter abandonment, Romney will favour the rust belt even if its just words, we will continue what Trump started but do it properly and so on. He cannot lose.

 

For the nomination we might guess there is a small % of senators who want Trump out. I suspect the vast majority do. I suspect his closest supporters do as well. When all this falls into place, Trump will withdraw his bid due to [fake] health issues "If it wasn't for this, I'd win easy, I would, we all know that."

 

Its a means for a narcissist to exit stage left

 

OK, what am i missing? Hasn't Romney gone on record that he has no plans of running?

The Washington Post - GOP senator calls for Trump to reopen government; Trump tweets ‘The Wall is Coming’

03 Jan 2019 at 5:20 pm

On Thursday evening Trump posted a photo of himself on his official Instagram account along with the words, “The Wall is Coming.”

 

The post was a reference to the phrase “Winter is Coming” from the television show “Game of Thrones.”

 

At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump displayed a similar poster with the words, “Sanctions are Coming,” in reference to tightening U.S. policy toward Iran.

 

The comb-like object at the bottom is presumably the new slat design for The Great Wall.

Paul1977:

 

tdgeek:

 

gzt:

tdgeek:

 

Romney lining up to go against Trump in 2020

 

It's good to see the potential Republican presidential candidates trying to outcompete each other about who can sound least like Trump for the win.

 

I feel its a foregone conclusion that Romney will get the nomination. Many Republican senators do not like Trump, they see what he is doing, but they want Republicans to be in power, so they replace Trump with someone who is known, normal, and NOT Trump. As well as avoiding voter abandonment, Romney will favour the rust belt even if its just words, we will continue what Trump started but do it properly and so on. He cannot lose.

 

For the nomination we might guess there is a small % of senators who want Trump out. I suspect the vast majority do. I suspect his closest supporters do as well. When all this falls into place, Trump will withdraw his bid due to [fake] health issues "If it wasn't for this, I'd win easy, I would, we all know that."

 

Its a means for a narcissist to exit stage left

 

 

OK, what am i missing? Hasn't Romney gone on record that he has no plans of running?

 

You haven't missed anything, he did say that. It places him as just another senator, who will agree with Trump, or disagree. So 100% well positioned to be "normal" Agree with GOP, disagree with Trump if needed, so as to to keep onside of normality, stability and honour. That will be his base for 2020, you wait and see. He wont need to fight Trump, he just needs to establish himself as the obvious choice when Trump implodes. Easiest job application ever.

The Washington Post - If we’re going to waste billions on a wall, let those billions be Trump’s

President Trump wants a wall. Democratic lawmakers don’t want to pay for it.

 

Here’s an elegant compromise: If Trump truly thinks building a wall is such a brilliant idea, he should pay for it himself.

 

I’m actually not the first to propose this.

 

Last week, Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.) suggested that our builder in chief pledge “some of his own funds” toward the wall, though Jones emphasized that a fiscally responsible approach would primarily rely on offsetting cuts to “wasteful federal spending.”

 

Now, saying you’re going to pay for a border wall by eliminating “wasteful federal spending” is a bit of an oxymoron.

 

The wall, after all, is a non-solution to a non-crisis. ...

 

If Trump believes that he - rather than the taxpaying public - is on the hook for construction costs, he might just declare the thing already built.

 

He can instruct Fox News to air some B-roll of the Great Wall of China and hope his supporters don’t notice the difference, and we can all, at long last, move on to the next fake crisis.