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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaPo: Trump in "the most challenging stretch of his term, weakened on virtually every front"
Trumps season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-season-of-weakness-a-president-who-prizes-strength-enters-key-stretch-in-a-fragile-state/2019/10/19/0daa864c-f1d4-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html
By
Philip Rucker
Oct. 19, 2019 at 4:47 p.m. EDT
President Trump, whose paramount concern long has been showing strength, has entered the most challenging stretch of his term, weakened on virtually every front and in danger of being forced from office as the impeachment inquiry intensifies.
Trump now finds himself mired in a season of weakness. Foreign leaders feel emboldened to reject his pleas or contradict him. Officials inside his administration are openly defying his wishes by participating in the impeachment probe. Federal courts have ruled against him. Republican lawmakers are criticizing him. He has lost control over major conservative media organs. And polling shows a growing share of Americans disapprove of his job performance and support his impeachment.
Many of Trumps Republican allies revolted over his decision to withdraw U.S. troops in Syria, which triggered a bloody Turkish invasion that killed Kurdish fighters and civilians.
Trump bragged about sending a very powerful letter warning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to invade Syria. Dont be a fool! Trump wrote. But Turkish officials leaked word that their leader had thrown the letter in the trash, and Erdogan then took Trump to task for his lack of respect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-season-of-weakness-a-president-who-prizes-strength-enters-key-stretch-in-a-fragile-state/2019/10/19/0daa864c-f1d4-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html
By
Philip Rucker
Oct. 19, 2019 at 4:47 p.m. EDT
President Trump, whose paramount concern long has been showing strength, has entered the most challenging stretch of his term, weakened on virtually every front and in danger of being forced from office as the impeachment inquiry intensifies.
Trump now finds himself mired in a season of weakness. Foreign leaders feel emboldened to reject his pleas or contradict him. Officials inside his administration are openly defying his wishes by participating in the impeachment probe. Federal courts have ruled against him. Republican lawmakers are criticizing him. He has lost control over major conservative media organs. And polling shows a growing share of Americans disapprove of his job performance and support his impeachment.
Many of Trumps Republican allies revolted over his decision to withdraw U.S. troops in Syria, which triggered a bloody Turkish invasion that killed Kurdish fighters and civilians.
Trump bragged about sending a very powerful letter warning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to invade Syria. Dont be a fool! Trump wrote. But Turkish officials leaked word that their leader had thrown the letter in the trash, and Erdogan then took Trump to task for his lack of respect.
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WaPo: Trump in "the most challenging stretch of his term, weakened on virtually every front" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Oct 2019
OP
Bald, fat, broke, fugly, stupid, sickly, friendless, terrified and despised.
Maru Kitteh
Oct 2019
#6
erronis
(15,328 posts)1. Sorry. My brain just automatically connected "Trump seaon" with "treason".
I'm sure that will be a common definition in most dictionaries, encyclopedias, and web sets for the remainder of history.
Sure hope his runty offspring are happy being associated with a philandering, treasonous, immoral, criminal, bastard.
(Oh, I'm not sure he's a bastard. His mother didn't look too inviting for dalliances.)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)2. Always thought his tough guy persona was bullshit
Just as those who are smart generally don't flaunt it those who are strong talk calmly.
Girard442
(6,084 posts)3. Punk. Trump is a punk.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)4. I know I could kick the shit out of him
he's nothing - he's always had others do his fighting for him....he cannot even fire people in person, HE IS A FUCKING COWARD
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)5. maybe he's a fucking coward ...
It's obvious he's a coward.
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)6. Bald, fat, broke, fugly, stupid, sickly, friendless, terrified and despised.