Gingrich: Trump needs to 'quit stepping on himself'
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 08/21/2017 10:03 AM EDT
The window for President Donald Trump to be a “remarkably great president” remains open, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday morning, but to fit through it, Trump has to “quit stepping on himself” with rhetoric that distracts from his agenda.
As an example, Gingrich pointed to last week’s impromptu Trump Tower news conference, an event billed as remarks from the president about infrastructure reforms that quickly devolved into Trump suggesting that there had been “very fine people” on both sides of deadly clashes at a white supremacist rally this month in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“The last thing he’s got to do, and I'm being very candid here, is he’s got to quit stepping on himself. He had a very good infrastructure press conference the other day, and then he stepped on it, blew it, guaranteed that it wouldn't get covered,” Gingrich told Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” Monday morning. “that's like a quarterback who goes out and throws the ball down to the other side and fumbles on the first play of every possession.”
The former speaker, a top surrogate for Trump’s campaign who remains in contact with the president, said rhetorical discipline is one of the steps Trump must take to repair his relationships with Republican lawmakers, some of which have become fractured after months of so far fruitless legislative battles, and refocus on pursuing his agenda.
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...it almost seems like John Boehner wasn't that bad after all. I mean I hated Boehner but these guys are downright evil.
John Boehner seems like he took things seriously - to a point. After 5 o'clock he stopped being an asshole until the next day. But Gingrich and McConnell are just non-stop 24-hour spawn of Satan.
he and dump are tied at three apiece. C'mon guys, we need a winner!
