The media has been fooled by Trump and his evil minions once again. The AP headline from Sunday August 9th was “Trump signs executive order after talks fail.” In the text a sentence reads “President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed the nation’s lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and replace an expired unemployment benefit with a lower amount after negotiations with Congress on a new corona virus package collapsed.”
Also, “Trump signed executive orders to act where Congress hasn’t.”
Also, “Congress allowed those higher payments to lapse August 1st, after negotiations to extend them failed.”
The problem with this appraisal of the situation is that it blames “Congress” for the situation instead of the real culprits, the Republican party and Machine Gun Mitch McConnell’s Senate in particular, as well as the President and the “evil geniuses” in the Trump administration. They never intended to reach an agreement, but instead conspired to sabotage the ongoing negotiation between themselves and the Democrats for the purpose of benefiting Trump’ election chances.
Again, the talks didn’t “fail” or “collapse,” the negotiations were sabotaged.
The negotiations were doomed once it occurred to Trump and his administration that he could stage a “dog and pony show” and pretend to fix the problem by signing executive orders. This would make Trump look “presidential” and look like a take charge leader while posing for the cameras and preening in front of an adoring audience of sycophants. Surely, this will fool some of the American people at least some of the time and Trump’s poll numbers will improve at least for a little while.
According to the AP article, “Trump largely stayed on the sidelines during the administration’s negotiations with congressional leaders, leaving the talks on his side to chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.”
That statement is misleading because it implies that Meadows and Mnuchin were free to negotiate a reasonable compromise with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats. There were no “negotiations.” Meadows and Mnuchin’s opening and closing positions were that the Democrats had to accept the Republican Senate’s $1 trillion offer, period.
According to the AP article, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “the White House ( meaning Meadows and Mnuchin on behalf of Trump) had rejected an offer by Pelosi to curb Democratic demands by about $1trillion.”
In fact, once Trump had his evil heart set on pretending to solve the problem with executive orders when, supposedly, everyone else (Congress) had failed, no agreement was going to be allowed between the Democrats and Republicans congressional leaders.
Even if the Democrats caved completely and said, “ O.k. We’ll take the $1 trillion and worry about the rest later,” Meadows and Mnuchin would have run screaming from the room with their hair on fire.
This wouldn’t be the first time that Republicans would reject their own solutions, ideas and philosophy when Democrats grudgingly conceded to the Republican plans in order to try to get something important and necessary accomplished. Obama care was basically the Heritage Foundation plan which was basically the big health insurance company’s plan. All Republicans voted against it.
This time would have been no different.
As for Senate Majority Leader Machine Gun Mitch, R- NRA, it’s not clear whether he should receive credit for eventually, at least this time, bailing on the Trump administration’s dastardly conspiracy and forcing the White House to orchestrate the plot themselves, or, should be blamed for systematically violating his oath of office by cooperating with and empowering the Trump administration’s daily violations of the Constitution, including this particular theater of the absurd/burlesque Trumpian ego trip.
Remember when Trump boasted “Only I can fix it.” In retrospect and certainly in this situation, what he meant was, I’ll do whatever it takes, legal, illegal, or immoral, to ensure that I get the credit and everyone else gets the blame.
First, and always, blame the Democrats for everything you do.
Not to mention, tens of millions of Americans will needlessly continue to suffer economically and personally because of Trump and the Republican’s cruel and heartless neglect.
The media makes fools of themselves as the AP did in this article when they take Trump and his administration’s actions and statements at face value or think that the statements and policies that are published or tweeted are somehow credible.
What will it take to convince the clueless in the media that Trump and his minions are pathological liars and they are only truthful or honest by accident.
When will those American people who blindly support President Trump realize that the President is seriously mentally ill as well as the most incompetent, disloyal and dangerous President in American history.
Jim McMeans
Danielsville,GA