Trump is at the top of his dangerous game

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/politics/donald-trump-midterms-immigration-oval-office/index.html



 Donald Trump fixed reporters with a hard gaze and declared: "I'm a very nonpolitical person, and that's why I got elected President."

Like much of what Trump says, his comment required a large helping of salt, since it came in a session in which his considerable, instinctive and often cynical political prowess was on full display 14 days before the midterm elections.

With reporters and lawmakers huddled around his Oval Office desk Tuesday, Trump floated conspiracy theories, boasted about his achievements, bent facts, teased future announcements and dipped into a well of racial and cultural prejudice.

Such behavior is more often displayed by autocratic leaders who rule in personality cults than by more cautious and conventional politicians who operate in democratic systems, but it also explains how Trump has bullied much of Washington into submission.

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Trump's virtuoso flexing of his significant but often diabolical political skills came on a day when he had no campaign rally. So he just manufactured a moment to add more fuel to the rhetorical blaze he has ignited over immigration.

[janterry]

1. This is exactly true. People say he's scared, right now but

I don't think so. He thrives on this kind of energy.

The Democrats need to step it up!

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[Boomerproud]

2. The Repubs are "bullied" because they have

no spine or morality. All they have is a message and a dark agenda. The Democrats better get out a counter message and damned quickly.