God bless Trump. It's Trump vs. the Left and the RINO Right and they're all outnumbered.
Posted on 12/24/2018 7:29:04 PM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first two years of President Donald Trump’s administration close, Republican allies still haven’t figured out how best to influence a leader who takes cues from the forces that swept him to office and seems to fear losing them above all else.
Republicans on Capitol Hill and even the president’s closest advisers have been whipsawed over a series of recent actions that show how intently Trump relies on what is sometimes called his gut — an adherence to campaign promises he made that are being reinforced by a constellation of election gurus, Fox News personalities and others who hold sway like few others.
“I know he can be a handful, but he is the president,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told The Associated Press.
On the domestic front, no sooner had Trump signaled he might be backing off his demand for $5 billion to build a border wall with Mexico — easing away from a partial government shutdown — than he took a U-turn after being scolded by conservative allies and pundits, who accused him of wavering on a campaign promise. Now, three days into the shutdown, his budget chief says it could drag into the New Year.
On issues abroad, Trump acted against the advice of his national security advisers and issued a surprise decision to pull troops from Syria. That prompted Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to step down and Trump’s special envoy to the coalition fighting Islamic State militants, Brett McGurk, to resign. A drawdown of troops in Afghanistan also appeared to be in the works.
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And they better not forget it.
God bless Trump. It's Trump vs. the Left and the RINO Right and they're all outnumbered.
Trump is an enigma that most Republican congressmen and senators can’t decode. The entire concept of running a campaign, making promises and actually keeping them is just so alien to them, they don’t know what to do about it.
God forbid someone elected to office REPRESENT THE PEOPLE THAT VOTED HIM IN.
Wait, his plan is to do what he said during the campaign??? Did he skip GOP school entirely?
Ap. Ap, Ap...are you kidding. Ap to tell the truth? Hogwash. Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
Can you believe it? The gall of him.
The UniParty is totally baffled by him....they hate him.
Sheeeyit. A folding table confounds Republicans.
O M G !!!
Trump is putting the the voters first, not the Republocrats and Demoscum !!!
The horror. The horror.
The way the media is starting to handle this is by reporting it as “HIS or TRUMPS WALL”
Calls for protesters passing out leaflets directed by name to those reporters using these terms which imply whether they be radio or TV reporters reading
“ HEY (INSERT NAME)
WE’RE TIRED
OF YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA
IT IS NOT HIS WALL
IT’S OUR WALL
should be printed up and passed out at those media outlets offices or places where they are known to congregate Resorting to this propaganda
It’s as much a fight for freedom and against government tyranny now as it ever was in 1776. We just haven’t come to blows ...yet...but what we’re fighting for and against is the same for Patriots now as it was for Patriots then.
OMG, A LEADER!
AP thinks they are hurting him but he actually appears heroic.
Folding is what they do best.
Winston Churchill could relate.
IT IS NOT HIS WALL, IT’S OUR WALL
Should be right next to
IT'S NOT A TRAVEL BAN, IT'S AN INVASION BAN!
And...
IT'S NOT A POLICY TO KEEP MIGRANTS IN MEXICO, IT'S A POLICY TO STOP INVASION!
YOU BETCHA!
DJT is doing PRECISELY what we hired him to do!
Libtards are panicking!
Trump is exposing Nan-Chuck for the anti-border duo they truly are.
Libs trying to kill us with fire hoses worth of anti-Trump ink.
It won’t work.
Trump is winning, winning, winning!
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