Schumer Says He Tries To Talk To Trump About Issues But He Changes The Subject

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By KRISTIN SALAKY Published APRIL 29, 2017 1:41 PM

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is back on speaking terms with President Donald Trump but said in an interview with BuzzFeed News published Saturday that the subject of their conversations are not always productive.

“When I talk to him, I try to talk to him about serious issues and he just changes the subject,” Schumer told the site. “I told him we want to work with him where we can work with him, we want to work with him on a big infrastructure bill — America needs to rebuild its infrastructure, haven’t gotten anywhere with him.

“He listens to what I have to say on the important subject of the day and then he talks about what he wants to talk about,” Schumer continued.

Schumer didn’t have many kind words for the President in the interview, saying that Trump’s comments that he thought the presidency would be easier should be a wake-up call.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/schumer-slams-trump-fox-news

[Cattledog]

1. tRump is mentally unstable.

[cstanleytech]

2. Trumps clearly suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's if not both and needs to be removed from

office not that the Repugnants in Congress care because as long as they can use him to get what they want passed they will keep him in office and they will only remove him if he starts blocking them and becomes a hindrance.

[targetpractice]

12. Agreed...

He reminds me of my mother, a malignant narcissist... years ago when she was in the very early stages of Alzheimer's. She was in denial, very defensive about accomplishments/skills, revisiting the past, etc.

This will end badly.

[Beacool]

3. Trump is supremely ignorant and ill informed.

He changes the subject because he knows squat about governing and policy, as Republicans soon found out when he became their nominee. Several Republicans offered to tutor him and soon realized that they were wasting their time. The guy is an intellectual wasteland.

[LOL Lib]

8. Intellectual Wasteland

[NastyRiffraff]

23. And the scary part of that..

is that he is just fine with being ignorant and ill informed. He has little or no curiosity, no wish to learn, no interest in anything but himself.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Typical of a Person who suffers

Narcissistic behavior. Unable to focus or care about anything that does not effect him that instant or in the now. It is after all,just about him and don't tell me what to do.

[targetpractice]

13. From my experience...

I think he's a narcissist who is suffering from very early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's. He reminds me of my mother eight years ago.

[LenaBaby61]

5. Schumer Says He Tries To Talk To Trump About Issues But He Changes The Subject.

Some advice:

JUST STOP TALKING TO THE ASSHOLE.

[Plucketeer]

7. Y aknow....

and THERE'S part of the problem. As with those who tried to act as if everything King George did was just business as usual - we get clowns like Schumer who try to treat him like a regular guy! Schumer and ALL the rest in DC - when asked about Trump, should have ONE three-word answer to every query: "Trump's a FRAUD!"

[Golden Raisin]

17. "Normal" and "taking the high road"

do not work. Republicans will oppose, obstruct and ultimately bash your head in with a baseball bat and smile while doing it. Democrats want to play nice.

[alfredo]

20. I've seen horndog 16 year olds with more focus.

[Plucketeer]

6. Trump was a flake, well before becoming president

As whack-O as he is, the responsibility rests squarely on the shoulders of those who were/are as stupid as he is - people who think putting world matters in order is equal to cutting your back lawn or trimming the shrubs. "Dummies for Dummies" should be a historical book about this whole debacle.

[Kingofalldems]

9. All these disorders being thrown around re Trump.

He's just an asshole. A complete asshole.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. A vindictive petty mean spirited asshole.

[tenorly]

10. Grifters and compulsive gamblers always do.

Typical.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

11. He can't read a book and can't stay on topic

Why the hell do we have this idiot in charge??

[spiderpig]

15. If you haven't seen it recently, watch the movie Network

One of the best-scripted, prescient films ever made.

Every one of Peter Finch's rants is right on the money. Not to mention William Holden's assessment of Faye Dunaway's character. This was in 1976.

"I'm not sure she's capable of any real feelings. She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny."

[keithbvadu2]

16. Donald does not know what he is talking about so he has to change the subject to look knowledgeable.

So smart! So smart!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Wakeup call? We woke up in January 2016 when tRump started climbing in the delegate count

Soon as we studied him we noticed his modus operandi and the way he'd take both sides of an issue depending on the audience.

Many Republicons woke up (maybe even a majority of them), but only a very few stood by their intellectual realization. Of those who did wake up, almost all let their irrational hatred of Clinton and Obama override their reason.

Many other Republicons are only beginning to wake up now and feel stuck.

[not fooled]

19. And don't forget

that dump's mental deficiencies including the inability to pay attention or process complex information were well known and documented by multiple sources including longtime NY journalists, biographer David Cay Johnston, and so on. The information was out there. The corporate media who were making $$$ off dump chose to ignore or downplay the evidence. The idiots who voted for dump didn't care.

[moonscape]

21. How are we going to survive 4 yrs of this? How will the planet? n/t

[murielm99]

22. Chocolate cake.

He could not stay on topic, so he had to talk about the chocolate cake.

[nini]

24. Of course he has to change the subject

He doesn't understand a damn thing about this government stuff.

[smirkymonkey]

25. What a complete and utter disaster!

The man cannot be reasoned with. He will never come to the table to negotiate, because to him, compromise will always look like defeat. He's the "It's my way or the highway" president.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. It's like when I tried to talk to my 92 yo father.

I'd tried to implore him to either pay his bills or let me do it for him. And 30 seconds later, he'd be obsessively talking about dogs, FOX News, or the like and we weren't going to settle anything for the moment.

Epilogue: When Dad died, I found six months of bills accumulated. As he chose his law firm to be both his Executor and legal representative for his estate, it cost $600 hourly for them to pay his bills which obviously reduced the value of the Estate. (Don't worry for my share being reduced: Dad disinherited me!)

[samnsara]

27. adult ADHD? whatever it is he needs meds...

[SummerSnow]

28. Trump does not want to work with the Dems . he just wants to complain and lie

that they don't want to work with him.

[Gothmog]

29. Trump does not understand the issues and so cannot discuss these issues