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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe got a glimpse of Trump negotiating today. It didnt go well.
By Aaron Blake January 9 at 2:54 PM
White House officials made the unusual decision Tuesday to allow cameras to film a nearly hour-long immigration meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. They probably wish they hadn't.
For a moment, Democrats thought they had struck an unexpected deal with President Trump. Trump had previously insisted that any deal protecting "dreamers" undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children should also include border security and/or a border wall. But he now says that he would support a clean bill protecting dreamers, and then take up comprehensive immigration reform later.
What about a clean DACA bill now, with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure? asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Trump responded: Yeah, I would like to do that. I think a lot of people would like to see that.
The problem? Trump didn't know what clean DACA bill meant. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) quickly interjected and made clear that Trump believes a clean bill would include border security. Except that's not at all what a clean bill is; that's a compromise bill. A clean bill, by definition, only has one component to it.
By the end, Trump sought to clarify things. I think a clean DACA bill to me is a DACA bill, but we take care of the 800,000 people, he said. But I think to me, a clean bill is a bill of DACA we take care of them, and we also take care of security.
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tonyt53
(5,737 posts)trump-o had them crossed most of the time.
samnsara
(17,687 posts)...but the sitting on the edge of the chair likes hes taking a dump has me stumped.
Irish_Dem
(49,240 posts)He cannot settle, cannot get comfortable.
Wants to run away or leave if thing are not under his control.
The constant arm folding looks hostile, or defensive.
Or both.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But he's photographed so often in that "You can't make me" pose that I suspect he's hiding something, like uncontrollable hand tremors. He couldn't even stand still for the national anthem last night, fidgeting and flapping after the first 10 notes.
Cha
(298,644 posts)bdamomma
(64,046 posts)him crossed arms when he is in that setting.
a kennedy
(29,914 posts)and tada, a immigration bill is passed. HES A IDIOT!!!!!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,492 posts)meant to keep up the belief system of his gullible base. They need a show to help them believe "like, really smart" is true.
bdamomma
(64,046 posts)about anything.
Arkansas Granny
(31,558 posts)he'll sign whatever they come up with.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)A fraud. A jackass.
We don't need news and books and media and reporters. We listen to this...person...speak, and we know everything we need to know about him.
bdamomma
(64,046 posts)as having a 4ty grade vocabulary level need we say anymore????
maxrandb
(15,478 posts)Why do they show up?
I mean, damn! It's not like he means anything he says. I know the minority of "Murikans" in just barely enough Electoral Vote holding states, and Putin and the FBI foisted this shitstain on us all, but I wouldn't be caught dead with the prick.
Stop pretending there is going to be some great "kumbiya" moment where he's going to magically start being "human".
Fuck him and his Retrumplican enablers.
All Democrats do by being photographed with this bastard is PISS OFF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS
spanone
(136,057 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,329 posts)Trump would fit right in with some of those ignorant fucks.