In shutdown-negotiations, Trump's demands are constantly changing.

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/21/1734736/-Weak-ignorant-and-uninterested-Federal-shutdown-shows-Trump-isn-t-in-charge-of-his-own-White-House#read-more

Trump's inability to articulate the same policy stance from one day to the next is not surprising; we have long known that Trump, whether through a rigorous policy ignorance or a compulsive addiction to flattery, tends to adopt the positions and demands of whichever of his staff members he's last talked to—when he's not lifting them directly from whatever he's watching on Fox News, that is. But the result is that Trump is, regardless of what he says in the meetings, not in charge of his own White House policies. When presented with his own supposed White House positions, in fact, he seems repeatedly surprised by them.

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That was two weeks ago. The White House list of demands has fluctuated ever since, and never in accordance with anything Donald Trump has said. A meeting with Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Lindsey Graham collapsed when "they found an angry president, surrounded by hawkish immigration opponents and no longer amenable to the deal he’d praised in phone calls just hours earlier."

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That was two weeks ago. The White House list of demands has fluctuated ever since, and never in accordance with anything Donald Trump has said. A meeting with Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Lindsey Graham collapsed when "they found an angry president, surrounded by hawkish immigration opponents and no longer amenable to the deal he’d praised in phone calls just hours earlier."

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There are two things at work here. First, Donald Trump has no core principles of his own when it comes to any of the elements of his would-be government funding plan. From wall funding to defense to CHIP to the fate of child immigrants, he is entirely indifferent to the details.

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Even at this point, neither McConnell or Schumer can negotiate with Trump or confine him to a stable, readily identifiable position; the hardline positions of his anti-immigrant staff members are so untenable to both Democrats and Republican moderates, however, as to be a non-starter. We are stuck, because Donald Trump cannot control the demands of his own staff. And we'll be stuck until Trump's own staff either successfully sidelines him from the negotiations entirely, thus enabling a consistent (if hardline) position inside the White House, or Trump becomes so enraged by negative news coverage of his dealmaking failures that he sidelines his staff.



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McConnell has thrown in the towel: He has said that he will only put a bill up for vote that already has Trump's support.

Even Mitch McConnell is sick of Trump's shit.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. In this lays the

destruction of the American Fabric. Trumps Advisors,Kelly and Miller,are the real impediments to Trump's decision making. We have a ignorant uncaring Stooge who is a Reality TV Star whom is failing at playing the role of M.President. Obvious to most,if it gets his face or name on the next news story,well that is all he cares about.

As my ex friend use to say"what's in it for me".

[Irish_Dem]

2. One of his strategies is to confuse and exhaust his opponents.

With threats and insults along the way.
People usually throw in the towel at some point.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Or else he takes them to court

and bankrupts them if they demand what they are contractually supposed to receive financially (like workers, attorneys, etc). He isn't a deal maker, he IS a crazy bully.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes exactly. That is part of exhausting people, financially and legally as well.

[roamer65]

5. The Trump Shutdown.