So, Trump punts/wimps out on the wall AND healthcare repeal?

[underpants]

Last edited Tue Apr 25, 2017, 10:31 AM - Edit history (1)

I heard this on the morning "news update" on the local right wing radio station on the way to work this morning.

Wall funding fight moved back until the fall.
Repeal of Obamacare will have to wait until the govt shutdown is averted.



I checked google on it and as per the norm there are a variety of news reports saying this and one part of the White House confirms it but another part says the opposite.

[LaydeeBug]

1. He tried to grab it by the oussy and over reached. nt

[DetlefK]

2. Last thing I heard was he wants BOTH a done deal by the end of the week.

[eShirl]

5. He'll give up because it's too hard.

[DetlefK]

3. Found it:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/25/1656096/-Collapse-Against-fierce-Democratic-opposition-Trump-surrenders-on-funding-for-his-wall

President Trump signaled to a gathering of conservative media reporters on Monday that he may be open to delaying the funding of his proposed border wall.

The president said -- according to tweets from conservative media at the gathering this evening -- that his administration could get the funding for the wall this week or they could come back to it in September.

...

“It's good for the country that President Trump is taking the wall off the table in these negotiations. Now the bipartisan and bicameral negotiators can continue working on the outstanding issues," Schumer said in a statement.

...

Even after months of yelling, finger-wagging and threats … Trump gave up rather than risk a simple loss. And of course, he’s up on Twitter to tell you that it didn’t happen.

[underpants]

4. Thanks

Saying one thing, doing another...sort of ...but claiming something else.

[Maeve]

9. And above all, claiming victory in the face of defeat

[Orsino]

6. Everything he has ever said has been a bluff.

And every time his bluff is called, he folds...except in the case of that freaky-ass election. He was only running to wipe out his debts, and finds himself in an office he never wanted.

I predict another rally.

[cheyanne]

7. No, he did not flinch; he just made sure that congress is completely dependent on him.

Since chaos is the common denominator of Trump's presidency, let's look at what actually accomplishes for Trump. First, Congress (and the media)spend time trying to figure out what he wants done rather than at what he is doing: making sure Congress will be completely dependent on him to get anything done.

He has been demolishing the media and the intelligence community for a long time: easy targets.

But Congress is a special case: they can actually impeach him. So he needs different tactics to make sure that they can't do anything.

Remember that totalitarian states still have "parliaments", "congresses".

The final goal is a government so weakened that it will be in his control.

That is when he will achieve a reconciliation with Russia . . .

[bullwinkle428]

8. Deep down, bullies ALWAYS turn out to be cowards.

The only thing that is consistent about this cretin, is his willingness to thrown in the towel in the face of genuine opposition, when he KNOWS he's about to get beaten.

[Johonny]

10. If so, then we know all of capitol hill knows he's full of hot air

and can be pushed around. A thing that all the foreign leaders already know. Some leader.