One Week of Trump

[Dill]

(01-27-2017, 09:24 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: 3) I'm starting to get Trump a bit - He fancies himself as the Great Negotiator, and maybe he is. If you want something from him, you have to negotiate and offer him something. And he views everything as negotiable. The Republicans in the House and Senate were the first to get this. Deals were made before he won the nomination. This is why they all get along so well right now. This "paying for the Wall" business with Mexico is negotiation for re-doing NAFTA, mark my words. Same with the China stuff.
4) Trump listens to "Mad Dog" - He backed off the waterboarding issue when Sec. of Defense Mattis informed him it doesn't work. This is reassuring.

This morning I got up and went to work listening to Trump insist Torture does work--he KNOWS it works--and he is going to bring it back.
And he is still tweeting Mexico will pay for the wall one way or another.

I come home at night and he has "listened" to Mattis--one of the few adults in his inner circle--so will back off from the torture for now. And the Mexican president has apparently gotten him to agree to stop tweeting diplomacy with Mexico.

Trump doesn't "negotiate". He bullies and threatens. He deploys the Trump brand where it works (e.g., when he has to seek loans abroad because he can't get them at home). But now he is not dealing with starry eyed apprentices or sycophantic employees or adoring alt-righters. He cannot fire China or impress them with a round of golf on his private course. 

As I type I am listening to news reports about the chaos behind the scenes as congressional Republicans scramble to repeal and keep Obamacare. 
His vice president and speaker are outflanking him to get their priorities into law.

He can't work with the press, with the CIA, the FBI--Congress, the state department, and defense are not far behind.

This is how it will be, growing chaos, day after day, week after week, until he is out.