Pelosi asks Trump to reschedule State of the Union address

[Gothmog]

Source: Politico

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday asked President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address — or deliver it in writing — as long as the government remains shut down.

"Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th," Pelosi wrote in a letter to Trump.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/16/pelosi-asks-trump-to-reschedule-state-of-the-union-address-1103047

[Va Lefty]

1. Holy crap! He's gonna blow a gasket!

[Maxheader]

30. It may be secretly glad...

The nimrod knows the world thinks its nuts...

[irresistable]

2. I think that she's playing 7 dimensional chess with him....

I think that she was worried that he would just cancel it. She knows that he will do the opposite of what she asks.

I think that she wants him to make a fool of himself.

[calimary]

23. She's been around enough unruly kids needing gentle-but-firm behavior modification.

She’s a mother-of-FIVE, and then there’s the grandchildren, too. She’s handling him like a mom with a VERY unruly, undisciplined, spoiled, and overly coddled adult-sized five-year-old.

You DO NOT reward OR reinforce bad behavior of any kind! ANY responsible parent can understand that.

[RobinA]

25. She May Also

actually be working for the good of the country. It could be very destabilizing if he were to cancel it, both here and abroad. This way she either goads him into doing it, or "they" reschedule it, which is a little less scary seeming since there's an adult involved with the decision. I can't imagine a State of the Union in the current situation, and I don't mean security.

[mcar]

3. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

[Gothmog]

4. This will piss off trump

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[Kali]

27. !!!

[demmiblue]

5. Letter:

[Gothmog]

10. I really like this letter

[IronLionZion]

21. Secret Service is not being paid

I bet dipshit is feeling really safe being protected by people he's not paying.

[Dave in VA]

6. This is how we do it!

Yes, thank the powers of the universe that we have Speaker Pelosi on our side!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. To quote "someone,"I misunderestimated her.

Even better, he was "hoist by his own petard," as Pelosi is basing her concern on a determination made by the secretary of DHS.

[Gothmog]

34. Nancy Pelosi is not messing around.

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[machoneman]

8. Hooray! This sets us up to skip 100% of the SOTU speech. Imagine.....

more than 1/2 of the entire Congress missing. The pics, if no fillers are allowed, will go down in history as one of many of the dark days of Trump's time in office.

[riversedge]

9. Pelosi to Trump: We can take your SOTU in writing if you won't reopen the government.

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Pelosi to Trump: We can take your SOTU in writing if you won’t reopen the government.

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[Julian Englis]

11. The headlines are wrong: Pelosi is asking tRump to end the shutdown so he can give the address. n/t

[LanternWaste]

12. Your inference does not deny the accuracy of the headline...

"I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address..."

[Kurt V.]

16. the headline is still wrong.

she ain't asking. lol

[dalton99a]

13. We already know he will use the speech to attack Democrats:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-contemplates-weeks-more-of-shutdown-11547235701

Inside the White House, some aides have discussed using their captive audience for the State of the Union to have the president admonish lawmakers for a shutdown that at that point would be on its 39th day, and to reprimand them by saying they haven’t given enough attention to what the administration views as an immigration crisis along the southern border.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424973-trump-on-declaring-national-emergency-not-going-to-do-it-so-fast

The Office of Management and Budget is gearing up for the partial shutdown to continue through February, and aides have discussed using Trump's Jan. 29 State of the Union address to admonish Democrats over their opposition to the wall.

[Solly Mack]

14. K&R

Good.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. He'll probably give the speech from Mar-a-Lago

with an audience consisting of five Justices of the Supreme Court, a few Rethug congressmen, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, the Russian Ambassador, and some hired extras who may or may not get paid at the end.

[Cold War Spook]

17. He can do that,

but the Democrats will make sure that everyone knows that the backdrop he uses is not the Capitol Building and the paid men and women, most of whom are not really members of Congress. Also make sure people know that his State of the Union speech does not have to be made in person, but can just be a written document sent to Congress and this was not his idea.

[onenote]

20. No, he'll give it in the Senate Chamber

at the invite of McConnell. House members won't be in attendance

[Gothmog]

18. This makes me smile

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Another of Raw Story's tendentious and inaccurate headlines.

Jordan didn't "fly into a rage." He was obviously annoyed but I didn't see any flying into a rage. I really don't like the way Raw Story uses exaggerated headlines as clickbait.

[ehrnst]

19. And she's totally trolling him with, "Oh no! I'm not disinviting him at all."

I'm just concerned about security issues because of the SHUTDOWN.

[RobertDevereaux]

22. Or give it in the format of an interview helmed by Robert Mueller.

[ffr]

24. Red meat for the rest of us.

I'm becoming a carnivore when it comes to tough talk like this.

Love it. Thank you Madame Speaker!

[C_U_L8R]

26. Nothing gets between Trump and a TV camera

He'll end up broadcasting from Mitch McConnell's living room

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. She didn't "ask." She flat-out disinvited him.

Postpone the speech or deliver it in writing. Awesome.

[patricia92243]

31. He will use tthe time to tell everybody it is the fault of Dems that the government is shut down.

And unfortunately most people will believe him. They don't keep up with politics and only listen to this one speech q year.

[Gothmog]

32. Individual 1 will not be permitted to deliver his state of the union address until government is reo

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[Gothmog]

33. From Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee

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[Vinca]

35. Score a big point for Nancy. LOL. He'll probably move the damn speech to

the National Mall and have marching bands and fireworks just to get back at her.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

36. Facing Trump's tantrum, Pelosi takes away the TV

Opinions

Facing Trump’s tantrum, Pelosi takes away the TV

By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
January 16 at 1:15 PM

To say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has mastered the art of dealing with President Trump would be a gross understatement. She fact-checked him in the Oval Office on live TV and passed spending bills to reopen the government, thereby reinforcing Trump’s responsibility for the shutdown. To top it off, she’s taking away the president’s TV. More precisely, in response to Trump’s nearly month-long temper tantrum, she has told him he won’t get his prime-time State of the Union address on Jan. 29.
....

Meanwhile, Trump’s overall approval rating is a puny 37 percent. “Trump’s support among Republicans and Republican leaners remains high (80% approve), while nearly all Democrats and Democratic leaners (96%) disapprove of his job performance. The partisan gap in Trump’s job approval is wider than for any president in more than six decades.”

In short, Pelosi has the full support of her party and a sizable majority of the country behind her. Unlike Trump, many don’t view the wall as a dire issue, but 58 percent do see the shutdown as a “very serious” matter.

We don’t know how this will end, but should the shutdown create a serious safety hazard or take a big chunk out of the economy, there is little doubt who’s going to get the blame. And Pelosi knows it.

Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion for The Washington Post. Follow https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger

[Gothmog]

37. Pelosi: Trump Can Deliver SOTU 'From The Oval Office If He Wants'

trump's oval office address on the border wall last week was a bust. trump draws energy from a crowd and was very flat in that televised/teleprompter address

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[Jarqui]

38. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how the Kremlin feels about this .. nt

[Blue_Tires]

39. INJECT IT STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS

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[Gothmog]

40. Nancy Pelosi isn't just beating Trump. She's humiliating him

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[helpisontheway]

41. Did he reply on Twitter? Or do they have him in a straight jacket?..nt

[olddad56]

42. why doesn't she just invite Putin to give the state of the union address and cut out the middle man?

after all, he knows the real state of our union, he is the one working the strings on the puppet. He is the ventriloquist.

Seriously, if she did that, it would get some attention.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. Thomas Jefferson: delivering annual message to Congress in person seemed too monarchical.

Your periodic reminder Woodrow Wilson was just awful.

Thomas Jefferson ended tradition of a President delivering annual message to Congress in person because he thought it seemed too monarchical. (Woodrow Wilson resumed it.)

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[Gothmog]

44. trump has not formally responded to this yet which is strange

[Gothmog]

45. trump's silence here is strange

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[Gothmog]

46. Here is trump's rather weak and lame response

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