DONALD TRUMP, HIGH ON HIS OWN SUPPLY, NOW WANTS TO DO THE STIMULUS DEAL HE BLEW UP TWO DAYS AGO
Remember two days ago, when Donald Trump spent his first day back at work blowing up the economy via tweet? Which was a self-defeating move so crazy, even for him, that people were left wondering if the steroids he was on had affected his thinking? Later that evening, seemingly unaware that he had literally announced he was cancelling stimulus talks just hours prior, the president sent out a series of tweets calling for Congress to immediately pass a relief bill, an about-face that suggested he’d stolen some syringes from Dr. Sean Conley‘s office and was just injecting the dexamethasone straight into his mouth. The reversal was so bizarre that the White House chief of staff told reporters that in case there was any confusion—which there was!—“the stimulus negotiations are [still] off.” But uh...just kidding?
Within a day of tweeting that he was calling off bipartisan talks for a coronavirus stimulus deal, President Trump phoned House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and indicated he was worried by the stock market reaction and wanted a “big deal” with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, per two sources familiar with the call.… Trump was spooked after seeing the instant drop in the stock market and intense backlash to his tweet, and he has since directed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to push for a more comprehensive relief bill before the election.
A person who spoke with Trump yesterday said that while he would never use the word “regret” about scuttling the negotiations, they got the strong impression that Trump realized he had messed up tactically.
Of course, “tactically“ suggests the president had carefully thought out his decision and wasn’t just running around the White House flinging his own shit against the walls. In an interview on Thursday, he tried to claim that he totally knew what he was doing and abruptly scuttling negotiations was simply another example of The Art of the Deal in action, rather than the side effects of COVID treatment (and/or his normally compromised mental state). “I said, look, we’re not getting anywhere,” he told Maria Bartiromo. “Shut it down. I didn’t want to waste time. But in any event, we got back—both sides very capable—we got back, we started talking again. And we’re talking about airlines and we’re talking about a bigger deal than airlines. We’re talking about a deal with $1,200 per person, we’re talking about other things.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-stimulus-steroids
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He’s not doing his rallies this weekend anymore
