Trump veers between hard-liner, dealmaker on shutdown
Trump is presenting himself as both a hard-liner and would-be dealmaker as the government shutdown hits the one-week mark.
It’s a mix that he may hope will throw off Democrats but also leaves some members of his own party unsure of his ultimate intentions.
On Friday morning, Trump unleashed a series of tweets threatening to seal the southern border and cut off U.S. aid to three Central American nations unless he got funding for a border wall.
But at other times this week he has struck a more flexible tone, suggesting that there is wriggle room on exactly what kind of structural barrier he would accept on the border and how much money he wants to see provided to build it.
Those divergent signals are themselves testament to the political dynamics of the moment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/423167-the-memo-trump-veers-between-hardliner-dealmaker-on-shutdown?userid=229233
I'll make it simple for The Hill. He can't make up its fucking mind. If that were a Democrat doing this they'd call him a flip flopper.
= new reply since forum marked as read
