I liked the way all the paperwork had “CONFIDENTIAL” written right across it. Oh, for some of the software and zooming ability that film media gurus, the press and intelligence services have close to hand...
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There are some common themes in the comments. One is that the bar has been set so low it would be almost impossible for Trump not to meet it. Another is that his main interest is in winning. He'll sign anything the Republicans put the in front of him and he has no grasp of policy, saying one thing and then the opposite a minute later. I recall reading quite a while ago that the Republicans would be happy with an idiot in the White House as last Ng as he could sign his name. They got what they wanted. I can only hope that in the elections later this year the Democrats are successful in taking at least the House and perhaps even the Senate. I wonder if that should happen, would Trump resign because he no longer could play the role of winner?
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Even I know what a "clean DACA" bill means and I don't get immigration briefings prior to a high-level meeting solely devoted to the topic of immigration. Sheesh.
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So.. he can sign his name. Usually. Hail to the Chief!
NOBODY wants to do business with this criminal -in-chief. Just go around him if you can. He's illegitimate, anyway.
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Wow, he was able to sit through an hour meeting without drooling or running out of the room. What an accomplishment. The rest of his performance was not quite as good and the newspaper accounts are much too generous. He was ready to give away the store to Feinstein until McCarthy gently intervened. A difficult task for McCarthy because he had to do it publically without calling the president an idiot. Trump's willingness to accept earmarks goes against the Republican Party mantra and hardly involves swamp-draining. So he will sigh anything? Does that mean he will give up his wall? Wolff's description gets reinforced every day.
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Trump was doing another 55 mins of The Apprentice. Even crazy people can hold it together briefly..... Did you all notice how he held his arms tightly around his torso often?? That was him desperately trying to hold himself together, to not give in to his real self. To not show his distain, rage, ignorance, etc.....
The emperor has no clothes, people. And it is way past time to see the reality, call it out publicly, and then deal with it. Trump must go. He has a very tenuous grasp on reality, he struggles with simple English, he cannot deal with details anymore, he repeats himself constantly. and he craves a constant dulation. None of that is NORMAL!
He has obvious brain disease deterioration. He needs serious intervention in a quiet place. Not life in the White House fishbowl:( Reagan, as his Allzheimers advanced, had his wife and a strong team holding him up. He also loved his country deeply and was a congenial type. That is NOT Trump now! He is devious and punitive and out of control. He alienates others daily, on the world stage. He has his finger on the nukes button and he is willing to push it!!! He must be contained. Forcibly, if necessary.
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The very fact that Delusional Don rambled, repeated and contradicted himself only to be followed by an overt admission that he does not need to weigh in on DACA or immigration at all because he'll sign anything Congress puts in front of him reinforces that it's time for his exit. Or, rather his removal by Special Ops. Today! Why are we paying this goon a salary at all? He's living off of taxpayer money while he is present for only 2 real business hours a day, during which he demonstrates his disinterest, boredom, and ignorance of everything that doesn't have to do with his own personal gain or image. It's time for our special agents to do that thing they are good at and eliminate the threat the single biggest threat to our national security. I mean it. They need to get it done today.
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I am stunned that people found Trump coherent in this staged absurdity. He did not demonstrate any command at all of the issues. His comments were a collection of phrases, pauses, and incoherency. I did not feel he really had any idea what he was supporting. He reminded me of my high school teaching days when students who had not read an assignment bluffed their way through - or thought they were doing just that. If that demonstrated his sanity, then we have been reduced to tragically low standards.
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I am incredulous that the Democrats are so easily duped by the con man-in- chief. Good lord, "I see the stars aligned for the possibility of something happening.” Really?? This episode of The Presidential Apprentice is for the cameras only.
Get a backbone Democrats, and while you're at it try to inspire the electorate with your vision for our future.
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So you think it would be good strategy for the Democrats to blow Trump off. That's because you live in a bubble, you don't know any Republicans and few, if any, moderate Democrats. But those groups together might well constitute a majority in the country as a whole.
At this point, no one's been duped. Now if a compromise is actually reached we'll have to analyze it and decide if we want to support it.
Up to this point the Democrats in Congress have maintained a very impressive level of unity. There's been no sign of any of them rolling over for Trump. Not one vote for either the repeal of Obamacare or for the Republicans' tax monstrosity. Did you notice?
For what it's worth my prediction is there'll be no deal because Trump will not be willing to upset his base and the Democrats will not accept anything that wouldn't upset those folks.
Try paying attention. You might learn something.
Oh My God, what a Stable Genius. Nice demonstration of temporary sanity. Whatever it is he will sign it and when The Base complains he can disclaim it. Just so long as these frightened immigrants can get some help, all right.
I watched the whole thing. My take: Trump agreed with the last person speaking on every issue, did a high speed pirouette on every issue, talked down and interrupted the only real border Latino politician in the room who actually had the gall to talk facts and reality and ended up where he started, which was nowhere. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED,
Let's hope the Congressmen and women could see through Trump and maybe, just maybe, heard each other more than Trump. DACA needs to be fixed now. The people, all the people, are demanding it. Just Do It!
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Another frightening sign the wheels have completely come off American democracy and the media is not equipped to cover either fiddling or institutions burning to the ground.
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Another TV appearance for the ego to prove his star power. It was amazing to watch him trying to keep his head above water in depths he was clearly unprepared for, and once again be so ignorant as to be pleased with what should have been by anyone else's standards an embarrassing performance.
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It’s clear to everyone that Donald Trump does not know the issues nor does he care to learn them.
But this does not affect his standing within his base.
They don’t care about any of this. They know he lies they know he cheats they know He colluded with the Russians they know he’s obstructing justice they know he’s probably involve the money laundering.
But their minds are closed. There’s only a few things that would bother them if they found out as if maybe he assaulted little girls or if the sexual allegations in the dossier were true. Other than that they’re fine with collusion, obstruction, money laundering, lying, stupidity, laziness, stealing money from the government, enriching himself, golfing, they are fine with all that. Go figure, these are people that also wrap themselves in the flag.
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Roy Moore got about 48% of the vote. I think many of them really would NOT care if he assaulted little girls or had a little fetish going on with a couple of Russian hookers. They just don't care.
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Until Donald Trump signs legislation, he has not agreed to anything.
Saying "I'll be signing it" is meaningless in the world of Donald Trump. All that is only a bargaining ploy.
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I support Trump in restoring the earmarks for projects in members’ districts. As a Congressional staffer, I worked on a transportation bill. Each member was able to submit a wish list of projects and available money was allocated proportionally. Members worked with officials in their district to identify the most crucial projects. I thought the system worked well but after some notable abuses — the bridge to nowhere in Alaska— the system was jettisoned. The Trump administration asked state DoTs for a list of their wish list projects. I reviewed some of them and most were in the big cities. While these projects were important, they would not be met with much enthusiasm in the other districts. I think a hybrid of both methods would be a winner.
Why is it that the comments are so much more astute than the press coverage of this meeting? I'm reminded of the inaugural address when all the media sighed about how "presidential" he sounded. Don't Trump's mood swings bother any of you reporters? Not to mention the timing and reality show aspects. The snake oil sales out of this White House are booming.
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Exactly. Trump is like the man who beats his wife yet when the police show up he is so charming that no charges get filed. Remember; he was an actor.
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i agree. I really hesitate to write this, but I think journalists are frightened. At one point, it could be covered with the rationalization of being “unbiased” (which is silly, because all writing is biased - it’s our job as citizens to read a spectrum of news and form our opinions based on multiple perspectives -at least st that’s what my 8th grade history teacher taught us). But I think journalists are fearful of the verbally violent attacks that create a firestorm around and serious critique of this reality TV president. It would be helpful for journalists or their editors to discuss this more openly, before they will not be able or allowed to do so.
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Paging Senator Charles Schumer, an architect of Reagan's amnesty immigration overhaul in the eighties.
Trump could do a Reagan immigration overhaul to give DACA legal status.
Democrats should at the very least give Trump a partial Wall funding right away, no strings attached as good faith Trump will himself push for DACA to pass.
Trump should shame anti 'amnesty' Republicans himself, saying he merely follow the Reagan model, giving 'amnesty' to DACA residents .
Trump can promote DACA as Reagan Plus model, with the Wall as part of package to ensure no repeat of illegal crossings in future.
By invoking Reagan's name And having a Wall built, courtesy of Democrat's cooperation, there will be much more chance for legalized DACA.
Democrats should not be foolish by denying at least partial funding for the Wall. There is no political advantage to be gained by not funding the Wall. See Trump as a Friend in DACA issue. Thanks to Ivanka for pushing this agenda!
“I will be signing it,” he said. “I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, gee, I want this or I want that.’ I’ll be signing it.”
For a while there, I thought we might run out of epithets for Trump. Now here's another one: Rubberhead.
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If Trump can see the writing on the wall, fix the El Salvador immigration debacle, begin proceedings to make Puerto Rico a state, fix health care and stay as far away from anything Ann Coulter believes then America is back on track.
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And Dianne Feinstein wiped the floor with him. He agreed to DACA protections, receivng nothing in return. Unfortunately, smarter Republicans cut the lapse. but it really doesn't matter, Trump should just be ignored because he'll sign anything that's put in front of him regardless of what it says. He won't even read it.
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Lona--You should have said: "He CAN'T read it, remember it, or understand it."
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Weird.
To me it looked like he just agreed with the person that spoke last.
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Michael Wolff makes that point in the book.
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Since a swamp is among the most productive diverse healthy ecological evolutionary fit systems-tropical rain forests and coral reefs- on Earth draining a swamp is the worst damaging thing that you can do.
A drained swamp was what was witnessed at the White House yesterday. Just before exposing the assembled political bipartisan leeches to the light of day and their mutual return to a cocooned slimy defensive dark dormancy.
Instead of a donkey or an elephant as their animal party symbol the dung beetle would be much more accurate and positively unifying symbolic American.
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Isn't this like the 20th "pivot" of his presidency. How many times have we heard that he's not becoming presidential. Sure, just wait till someone annoys him and we'll get another round of twitter storms this weekend.
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If I want to watch a TV show, I'll watch a TV show. If I want to have a competent president, I'll vote for a competent president. I did not vote to watch a TV show. Talk about one's vote not counting!!
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He is an actor/con man. He was playing a role. It will not last.
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Mr. Trump is a master of political theater well suited for those who know and care little for politics and real issues.
I watched his meeting yesterday for a sign that he intellectually grasped any of the issues being discussed--I saw no evidence he did.
What I did see was an actor playing president, content to jut his jaw and feign consensus. A year into his presidency no one around the table had any illusion about substance, Mr. Trump is mercurial as a may fly, being blown about on whatever wind happens to catch him, his utterances destined to be contradicted with his very next sentence.
Obama's economy seems to be doing fine for now, continuing it's recovery from the Bush years. But God help us when something starts to go wrong and this poseur has his hand on the wheel.
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Finally, he is presidential? Hard to believe that.
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Did Trump need to have "45" embroidered on his cuff to remind himself (given his mental failings) that he's president?
Or perhaps he was just showing off? Making sure we all know who's boss?
Today he wins the gold medal for obnoxiousness, along with his many other endearing qualities.
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The meeting may have been well handled according to some people but it is SAD that he has to have 45 embroidered on his shirt cuffs just so he can look down and answer correctly when someone asks him which president he is.
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Genius? The low low expectations and standards for Mr. Trump are unprecedented.
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And the press, including Peter Baker, played right into Trump and his Republican toadies’ hands by participating in this staged event. Fox News now has living proof Trump is both sane and competent as the rest of America twirls itself dizzy and exhausted on Trump’s media savvy thumb.
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I have always called reality shows like; The Bachelor or Real House Wives from wherever, unreality bad acting. The Presidential unreality bad acting show we witnessed yesterday was Trumps ridiculous attempt to look normal. It was a lot better than his normal act of, Trump lashes out, for at least he was trying to pretend to be doing something constructive involving policy but it was blatantly staged and just as phony as everything else he does. It was like he woke up ans said; gee wiz, their onto me, I'd better start looking serious. Acting serious is a much better alternative to being insane.
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At least he didn't start heaving paper towels at the participants.
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I didn't believe the con man in 2016. I didn't believe the con man last year. I don't believe the con man now. He and his minions have zero credibility.
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He looked completely out of his element, as he agreed with anyone who said something halfway intelligent, while his handlers and the propagandists on Fox tell us "what he meant" when he said he was good to go on Feinstein's suggestion of passing a stand-along DACA bill.
The meeting proved "Fire and Fury" to be highly factual.
What a sad, unqualified excuse of a president.
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"He was in command of the meeting..."
Yet, he was almost "lead into agreeing to an immigration deal that she (Feinstein) and fellow Democrats have sought, only to have an alarmed Representative ... jump in to steer him back toward his own policy."
THAT'S being "in command" of the meeting?!? My God. That's some "curve" on which to grade him.
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Showing their face with the devil is at best a mixed message for Democrats to send out. There can never be an honest deal with someone who routinely lies and will spin any compromise as red meat for his deplorable base.
Trump is an ideological trickster whose life is but a record of knowing how to swindle a deal.
Watch out Democrats. You're walking into a Trump trap.
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Yes, Trump crawled over a very low bar, but his ignorance could not be hidden any more than his lack of firm principles. The Republicans may as well have propped up a dead man.
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Wow. So apparently the White House issued a false transcript from yesterday's meeting on immigration. They left out DJT's agreement with Senator Feinstein to first pass a clean DACA bill and then work on a Phase 2 of border security after.
Our free press who were sitting in the meeting howled and made WH reissue a corrected transcript.
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"I like heat, in a certain way.” Mr. President, let us introduce you to Mr. Mueller.
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What was his Nielsen rating?
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He seemed quite scatterbrained during the discussion.
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What was unfolding on camera was more confirmation of the man's incompetence and utter cluelessness.
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if anyone thinks for a moment this man will live up to what he says, is delusional. He will walk back all and blame democrats. A federal judge had to step in and protect DACA in the interim. tRump, all he does is create havoc. we will see as he is a pathological liar. hope he can care about people, but his life has proven that he does not and will just lie and lie and shove blame.
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This will not deter Mueller.
More posturing and nonsense from Trump.
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Trump should never have allowed cameras to roll while he was responding to suggestions without his baby-sitters telling him what to say. His interaction with Diane Feinstein where he didn't understand what she was suggesting is further proof of just how incompetent he really is. Surely someone with a "genius" I.Q. would have realized she was suggesting fix DACA first and then go on to "Comprehensive Immigration Reform. What would he do when interacting with foreign leaders, hostile or friendly? This guy is just not intelligent enough to be POTUS. Trump is definitely Putin's president, not even the Electoral college could have come up with this clown.
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And thus our president gets a participation award just for showing up and not giving anyone else a handy-dandy insulting nickname. Make America Mediocre Again...
The Times can not help themselves. Trump ruins their narrative, so they rewrite the narrative.
Remind me again when Obama held a 55 minute open televised debate with congressional leaders?
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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"unfolding on camera" most certainly. What we all saw was an unhinged, carnival barker trying to look like he's in charge. As soon as he opened his mouth, it dispelled all rumors of him being "like really smart". And then, they deleted his stupid, unknowledgeable remarks from the transcripts. Yeah, he is so in charge.
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Are we really praising the president for being able to form a sentence and look awake?? This was a shallow TV show sham of a meeting. Unclear how anyone could call it a negotiation since he made clear he would sign anything. I'm worried about your increasing normalization, NYTimes.
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Maybe it was a lifetime of dealing with folks who are decidedly not competent to run their own lives, let alone a country, but I saw nothing reassuring in this. Yes he was not off the charts behavior wise at that instant, but he did not act like a a President, he was just a yes man. Most people who have lost it know how to do the agreeable act and most can keep it up for a while.
It still seems odd to me that Trump has to repeat everything he says at least three or four times.
Trump: "I'll take the heat. I don't care. I don't care. I'll take all the heat you want to give me, and I'll take the heat off both the Democrats and the Republicans. My whole life has been heat. I like heat, in a certain way.'
It's as if he can't come up with the rest of his thought, so he says the same words over and over.
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All this did was expose what has been claimed--President Trump has absolutely no grasp of policy. He agreed with everyone about everything despite the inherent contradictions in a clearly staged charm offensive perhaps as prelude to "Chuck & Nancy" Act II. If he was really on top of the situation, as the master of "The Art of the Deal," he would have demonstrated the deal he wanted that would strike a balance between a "immigration reform" with "a pathway to citizenship" and border security and his cherished wall. Instead, he cast himself as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing.
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Two things are obvious from the clips I saw, of Diane Feinstein first getting trump to agree to a clean renewal of DACA, and Kevin McCarthy objecting and insisting that "security" (code for the wall) must be attached to it. 1) trump has no understanding of the issues. 2) trump's policies are determined by whatever the last person to talk to him wants.
For virtually all policies, the last person to talk to him is a Republican. trump says he will sign anything that is put before him. Since the word 'compromise' is a dirty word for Republicans, the only things that will be put before him, like the tax bill abomination, will be initiatives rammed through without Democratic input or votes.
Trump often seems to agree with the last thing he has heard, but then will turn on a dime when presented with something new. This can be a hallmark characteristic of someone with cognitive deficits, lack of intelligence, and/or absence of genuine beliefs. Trump repeatedly contradicted himself through out the meeting. I am not encouraged or satisfied by his performance for the cameras, which is all it was.
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President Dunning-Kruger seems....like...really smart.
His TV Nation voter base must be very proud of him.
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Looks like Kelly made him to take his meds.
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A colleague asked me to watch the tape of the meeting of members of congress with the president, and I watched long enough to be impressed that the meeting was well handled. No matter what I may think of administration policy, I thought this meeting well handled.
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I would say it was not an unmitigated disaster. It did not produce any results, except for the transcript that was edited to remove one of his gaffes. Wish I could be a fly on the wall when Mueller interviews him in front of the Grand Jury. Just hope his lawyers aren't able to corral his answers.
It was a good show and Trump seemed to be polite and not seething with rage, so a couple of brownie points for that, but everything he agreed to will be reversed by the weekend. Believe me.
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It is true that Trump did not drool on himself or howl at the moon. How nice for him that the bar is set so low. However, he demonstrated once again that he has no grasp of policy at all. He agreed to Dianne Feinstein's proposal of a "clean DACA bill" now, with a commitment to future comprehensive immigration reform, before his own HHS secretary had to embarrassingly remind him that that is the OPPOSITE of what he, Trump, has said he wants. So much for the "genius" he was trying to display. This little show only proved what anyone could see long before his election or Michael Wolff's new book: he has no idea how to do the job of President, no clue how government works, and must be constantly guided and monitored by his staff to prevent him causing even more chaos in his own White House.
It's time for him to go.
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Strikes me that if one has to go extreme lengths to try to convince people one is capable of doing one's job, there maybe a problem.
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I didn't see any evidence of a president doing his job. No leadership. That is the first hallmark of a President - leadership.
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From the US Senate site:
clean bill - Generally, after a committee has amended legislation, the chairman may be authorized by the panel to assemble the changes and what remains unchanged from the original bill and then reintroduce everything as a clean bill. A clean bill may expedite Senate action by avoiding separate floor consideration of each committee amendment.
It would seem everyone has a nuance or two to overcome.
If there were any doubts about his fitness for the Presidency, yesterday’s session dispelled them all.
I have observed better, more nuanced, and better focused discussions between middle school kids.
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Or between elementary school students. I have a grandson who at age 4 would have done a better job. Sad
Well this sudden access for the press is most welcome, and any thinking journalist in that room knew they were being played. However, lets accept the insincerity of the gesture and use it a lever to demand more. If they are really sincere about transparency and illustrating to what degree the president is engaged in the process, open up the president's daily journal and the white house visitor lists. Why not show us who he is meeting with? Nothing to hide, right?
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The Very Stable Genius just wants to win. He doesn't care what the game is or what the outcome will be. Reality TV mentality.
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one might even say, divorced from reality mentality.
yet another in a tiresome series of stunts to appeal to his base, the willfully mean, ignorant, fearful, and disgruntled who are most easily persuaded by something they see on TV.
"clear the swamp" means get rid of anything unpleasant or disturbing to this group, expecially anything progressive that could be construed as threatening to their slippig hold on the American dream.
a confederacy of losers led by the biggest loser of them all, Mr. Serial Bankruptcies.
If this was intended to show us how stable and leader-like he is and what a great negotiator he is, it failed miserably. He took every side of the argument, misspoke so thoroughly that he had to be corrected by his own party leader, and there was more confusion after the meeting than before. He ran this like a "The Apprentice" board room scene, minus the decisive part. This looked like a stilted, rookie-mistake meeting that would be held the first week of an administration, not a year in.
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Ha. His big show of compromise got upended by a serious constitutional challenge in court. He hasn't even got a seat at the table! NOW he claims Congress is the boss?
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I don’t seeing grasp of the issues coming from Trump. His repeated line is, “We’re going to negotiate. We’re going to negotiate.” And this is supposed to allay our concerns as a result of a year of tweets, attacks, moral decrepitude, and incoherence? And this is leaving Wolff’s book out of it. Sorry. I’m not buying it.
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As on Broadway, a solitary decent performance is not enough to warrant keeping a FAILING! show open.
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I'm not sure what meeting Mr. Baker attended, but it wasn't the same one I watched on tv. I saw a President who couldn't keep his mind on a single topic for more than a sentence or two, and who contradicted his own statements in his next sentence. He appeared not quite in touch with the subjects being discussed. He is susceptible to following whatever "leader" was the last speaker, even if it changes his former position by 180 degrees.
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"Indeed, Mr. Trump made clear once again that the details of governance do not really matter to him as much as success, telling congressional leaders that he would approve whatever they send him. “I will be signing it,” he said. “I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, gee, I want this or I want that.’ I’ll be signing it.” "
This says it all. Trump has proven he is nothing more than a giant orange rubber stamp. That is his value to the congressional Republicans. They know that Trump will serve as a big fat zero check-and-balance on whatever they feel like doing, regardless of any of the campaign promises Trump may have made to the contrary.
This isn't to say that Mike Pence wouldn't also rubber stamp their work if he became president -- but no doubt the Republicans' view is "Why bother to swap out one rubber stamp for another?"
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‘“I will be signing it,” he (Trump) said. “I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, gee, I want this or I want that.’ I’ll be signing it.”’
Same for the GOP Tax Overhaul. DJT would have signed anything that came across his desk for the sake of putting something up on the the scoreboard. Rather than a leader this makes him a ready puppet of the Republican controlled Congress.
This latest foray before the press was staged theater, nothing more.
Everything about Trump shouts chronic impulsivity and an abiding disdain for substantive information and the facts. He is like a weather vane in a hurricane.
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"No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet."
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Peter Baker, if Donald Trump physically hugging himself (a psychological body-language "tell") during his Cabinet Room meeting with Dems isn't a sign of insecurity and possible mental instability, nothing is. Was Trump incoherent during the 50 minute televised meeting? Not yet, but give him a little more time. " A love fest"? "A love bill, D.A.C.A."? Let's wait till Trump "takes the heat" as the proof of the pudding.
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I’ve noticed that posture with Trump, as well as most of his other postures that are the opposite of “power poses.”
In the photo ops with world leaders, he’s alway slouched over with his hands between his knees. He slouches when he walks. And he seems to walk very slowly when he when he’s walking into his rallies. Is he deliberately walking in slo-mo for what he thinks is dramatic effect.
Yesterday, his arms never left his torso. He can’t even fake confidence or power.
It is telling that the bar is so low for this president and administration that a 55-minute meeting is deemed a "success" merely because there were no insults or inappropriate behavior. Conduct expected from schoolchildren nationwide has now become the standard of fitness for the Presidency? Let us not be fooled by a staged reality White House hour when the world witnessed a year of disturbing behavior by Trump, and more instability is no doubt looming ahead.
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Yes, we now know President 45 can stay awake and reasonably cogent for 55 minutes. What about the other 23 hours, 5 minutes of the day (or 18 hrs, 5 minutes, assuming he sleeps)? Pre-schoolers can stay engaged with a favorite activity as long.
There is no one in the Whitehouse working on policy. The president will sign anything placed in front of him. Anything.
The complicity in congress, self dealing and complete devotion to donors must be stopped. Vote vote vote in every election every time.
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It's sad to see the president of the United States stage a dog-and-pony show to try to persuade the nation that he is competent, intelligent, well-informed and a brilliant negotiator capable of handling the rigors of the presidency. Instead, he showed himself, again, to be none of these things, but a hapless duffer playing a role and playing it badly. History will not judge this president or the people who elected him and who enable him in a shining light.
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One of the compensations for this presidency is that Trump is so unencumbered by the thought process that we can clearly see what we are getting, But if he mixes good acting in with his tenure, then the bar being as low as it can go already, his supporters will praise his good acting skills while the rest of us wonder what we are looking at
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