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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/us/politics/trump-shutdown.html
WASHINGTON President Trump famously declared that in his administration the nation would become tired of all the winning. So on Friday he tried a little losing.
After the longest government shutdown in history, Mr. Trump surrendered with nothing concrete (or steel) to show for the battle, taking essentially the same deal that was on the table in December that he originally rejected, touching off a 35-day impasse.
With Senator Mitch McConnell on the telephone, rank-and-file Republicans in revolt and televisions in the White House showing air traffic slowing in the northeast because of the shutdown, Mr. Trump bowed to the inevitable and agreed to reopen the government until Feb. 15 without the money for his border wall that he had demanded.
For a president who believes in zero-sum politics and considers compromise a sign of weakness, it was a bruising setback, a retreat that underscored the limits of his ability to bull his way through the opposition in this new era of divided government. As it turned out, the art of the deal at this stage of Mr. Trumps presidency requires a different approach and the question is whether he can adjust.
4TheArts
(75 posts)And the obvious answer is, No. He will remain what he is. Coming back bull headed, incompetent, blustering and threatening.
Sooner or later he will fail in a way that undoes him, if he doens't undo this country first.
the art of the deal...as if the man ever made one, ever negotiated his way out of a paper bag...he's pathetic. Can't wait to see RWers spin this; their guts will be in knots...Sad!
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)and in time, this became a preference of his. So he's never developed the discipline that would come of listening to other people and trying to understand their motives and interests: all he understands are his own views, and he understands them in an undisciplined manner -- that is, he cannot distinguish his own views from any larger reality or truth, nor does he get any encouragement from his brown-nosing circle of advisors, that would lead him in any contrary direction