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Is federal coverage for abortions negotiable? I'm sure the Democrats would love it if it was. Are higher taxes on the wealthy negotiable? Again the Democrats would love it if it were. Is ending Obamacare negotiable? From the Democrat point of view I'd say no it isn't. Same with raising taxes on the poor and middle class. How negotiable is getting Mexico to pay for the wall? From Mexico's standpoint it's a non-starter; how do you negotiate with someone who sees no reason to come to the table.

Everything under the sun is negotiable, that is the way of the politician. Now, negotiable does not mean you will cave to the negotiation. Let us take your best example: Ending Obamacare.

Trump can say, "That is negotiable."

What he can MEAN is, Obamacare can stay, if "Obamacare" comes to mean a return to the old, pre-Obama system and a destruction of state-lines that caused the insurance problem to begin with.

When you are a politician, EVERYTHING is negotiable. It merely depends what your goals are, and how good a negotiator you are.

I actually believe that this 'leak' from the NYT was coordinated, by Trump, to signal the Elistist/Globalist party not to fear him. However, when he is in office, he might not be as much a pushover as they think.

We cannot know for sure what is truly happening in politics these days, except to know two thing: There is an Elitist/Globalist cabal that has seized control of both parties in America, and there is a probability that Trump is challenging that.

Everything under the sun is negotiable, that is the way of the politician. Now, negotiable does not mean you will cave to the negotiation.

That is a roundabout way of saying there are no core principles that you are willing to stand on. And that describes Trump to a tee.

What he can MEAN is, Obamacare can stay, if "Obamacare" comes to mean a return to the old, pre-Obama system and a destruction of state-lines that caused the insurance problem to begin with.

That is not what he is saying. He says he will repeal and replace. How could he retain Obamacare without removing the mandates and the coverage for pre-existing conditions and the coverage for adult children and the minimums that the policies need to meet? Remove that and what's left?

Or is the negotiation that Obamacare can stay if, for example, the restriction on across state line insurance purposes is enacted? Tenth Amendment issues aside, and ignoring the fact that it would do nothing to reduce costs, where is that any better than Obamacare?

When you are a politician, EVERYTHING is negotiable. It merely depends what your goals are, and how good a negotiator you are.

And in the Obamacare case what would Trump's goal in negotiations be? Do we even know? He says he wants to replace it but does he really, since he has no coherent plan on what he would replace it with? Is Trump really serious? Or is he just throwing out whatever he thinks the people he's talking to want to hear?

I doubt. I think they know better than to trust him.

Again Trump is operating at levels so far above and ahead of so many people. They don’t comprehend, and still think they are right. At some point these people need to re-evaluate their thinking process. Trump demands that people have their brains engaged and thinking out of the box. If people don’t want to do that they will be left choking in the dust. Their problem - NOT Trump’s!