And the WH site got slammed by peeps telling him he better not cave or else........
I’m thinking he was not going to cave at all but just played this out.
Your thoughts?
ABC News:
House Speaker Paul Ryan emerged from a last-minute White House meeting Thursday between President Donald Trump and House Republicans to say that the president told them he will refuse to sign a stopgap funding bill as it’s currently written — a measure that would avert a shutdown before a Friday midnight deadline.
Ryan told reporters that he and other GOP leaders were going back inside to try to add more on border security to the legislation.
Trump had called the meeting on short notice amid criticism that he was “softening” on a key campaign promise.
I wish I knew, Trump is really hard to read. He says he will do one thing when he knows he’s not about to do it and he keeps everyone on their toes. He has done this over and over.m
I have a hard time believing he was really going to Cave after saying he would be proud to have a shut down.
I think that’s all part of the strategy, using surprise and something unexpected to get people to act. Maybe it will work with the Congress?
I should’ve watched the apprentice, to get some insight into how he works. What do you think his plan was?
I was thinking about what you said. By pretending to cave he got a lot of reaction. all of Which has to be noted by the Republicans in Congress.
Mark Meadows of the conservative freedom caucus came out quite strongly, saying that Trump better not sign the continuing resolution Or his career would be over
Rush Limbaugh was about as emphatic about it as I have ever heard him be.
Tons of emails, phone calls, faxes went to everyone in Washington.
The go fund me wall is up to $5 million!
None of this would’ve happened if Trump had just continued as usual, and waited for Congress to send him something that actually protects the country.
It could have been a brilliant move :-)