Tom Walkom writes that Donald Trump is desperate to leave his mark:
He wants to be remembered as more than just a crude blowhard with funny hair. All presidents want to leave a legacy. But Trump’s need for acceptance and praise is so achingly obvious as to be almost pitiable.
He is desperate to make a mark. If a hung Congress means he can’t do it the usual way, he will find another.
So if he can't work with Congress, what could he do? Walkom suggests a couple of strategies:
Expect Trump to focus more on matters over which Congress exercises little control, such as foreign and military affairs.
The president is already saber-rattling against Iran. He has unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear accord with that country and is warning of dire consequences should Iran fail to accede to American demands.
He has also sent U.S. troops to the Mexican border to thwart would-be illegal immigrants from Latin America. As commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces, he could make that deployment permanent.
Conversely, he is talking nice to North Korea and has not ruled out inking some kind of peace accord with its leader, Kim Jong Un.
Will he take the even bolder move of negotiating a peace deal with Afghanistan’s Taliban, thus putting an end to America’s longest war? Don’t dismiss the possibility out of hand. The U.S. has been quietly trying to make peace with the Taliban since Barack Obama’s presidency. Trump’s overwhelming vanity might be enough to push this effort to a successful completion.
And then there are those executive orders:
The other broad power a president enjoys is the ability to issue executive orders — legally binding edicts that do not require Congressional approval. Obama made use of this power to bypass a Republican-controlled Congress and impose pollution requirements on the use of coal.
Look for Trump to try something similar in areas that concern him. He has already mused about issuing an executive order that would deny the automatic right of citizenship to any person born in the U.S.
Such a move would be immediately challenged as unconstitutional. But that wouldn’t necessarily prevent Trump from trying it anyway.
Trump knows that Mueller and the Democrats are coming to get him. As his desperation grows, any number of things could happen.
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12 comments:
The Insane Clown POSus is a classical abusive, gaslighting, narcissist, serial violent rapist.
As such, he doesn't have a plan, he doesn't have a strategy, he just reacts, to try to pull focus back on him, try to gaslight his way out of his own dumpster fires, and blame others.
"I know Whittaker very, very well. He's a brilliant man." 6/18/2018
"I've never met Whittaker, I don't know him at all." 11/8/2018
The Nazi's he has surrounded himself with, have plans, but because of their utter contempt for American Democracy, they never studied how it works, they only know how to Nazi,
and the ReThugs in the House and Senate have the same contempt, ignorance and decades of living in the Faux News bubble,
which is why, despite decades of MSM turd polishing of Ryan and others as a "policy wonk", their signature act when they had majorities in both Houses, the Presidency and had gutted all the "norms" of "consultive democracy", all they could ram through was the Tax Cuts For Billionaires And Corporations Act.
The chaos, as the Democrats attack The Insane Clown POSus, his Minions and the Nazi Party, on multiple fronts, from passing good, needed Laws in the House, only to have the Senate sink them,
"ReThugs: "No Tax Cuts for You! No Living Wage for You! No Social Security for You! No Medicare/Medicaid for You!"
to House Investigations on The Insane Clown POSus, his Minions, his Kapo's and the Russian/Criminal ReThugs.
BTW, there will be no war with Iran. The US had only 15,000 light troops available for a new war, and 6,500 were sent to the Mexican Border for a Thanksgiving and "Happy Holidays" away from their families. 1:4 US Combat Aircraft are flight capable, 1:9 combat ready. The USN is tapped out.
17+ Wars of Choice have consequences.
Kid's born after 9/11 are already shipping out to War Of Terror deployments with no end in sight.
It will be "interesting", if that's what you want to call The Insane Clown POSus opening his puke funnel and the US MSM chasing after the vomit du jour,
but there won't be any "accomplishments".
I agree, Jay. There won't be any accomplishments. But there will be chaos -- lots of it.
There will be some accomishments , Owen,
but they won't be on the Nazi/ReThug/Insane Clown POSus side.
There's going to be a lot of Nazis/ReThugs/Insane Clown POSus's Minions and Family going to jail.
A lot of the Blue State Win's are going to be "reformed" to a permanent Blue.
I certainly hope you're right, Jay. But it's going to take a concerted public effort to go from Red to Blue. And the Trumpists will throw everything thy have -- legal or illegal -- at the reformers.
President Bone Spurs cancelled his scheduled visit to Belleau Woods to honour the fallen, because of a light mist.
He's currently sitting in his hotel room, binge watching Faux News and attacking Trump voters in California for dying in the fires and making him look bad.
It's the Dunning -Kruger Presidency.
Later, after the weekend, he's meeting his KGB handler, Putin, for a performance review.
The Donald has hair like a krill
And a soul that is shriveled and ill.
He insults his French hosts
And dishonors the ghosts
Of the Lafayette Escadrille.
He stiffs the veterans and shakes hands with Putin. It's the perfect picture of the man, Jay.
Precisely, Jay.
And he's blown off the Leaders dinner because he's too busy pouting.
Despite his tough talk, Jay, Donald knows he's a loser. And he refuses to process that knowledge.
.. leaving a legacy ..
Its probably for the best if folks (Indys, Mainstream journalists, historians etc) aim to paint a single page of 'the gift' (that's what a legacy is supposed to be, a gift) in roughly reverse order of usefullness. Thus we have Stephen Harper from Canada or Donald Trump from the US of A to consider.. and of course Obama or Pierre Trudeau, or one of the Bush gang to consider. Comparisons are odious, its said.. and there's little to lickspittle Trump or Stephen Harper that compares anyway.. and its important to note it may not be Harper or Trump worth examining.. its more about who and what they spawned, spewed or condoned.
Start with Election Fraud.. ie how these contagions came to 'power'
Then simplify and identify the camoflage & enablers they utilized or sold out to
Finally, examine the so called 'gift' Is it a polished turd ?
Go grass roots.. Their impact on Environment first..
Were they destroyers or advocates ? Bingo.. !
Society and culture ?
Election Fraud hardly a good start ..
Economy and beneficial work or employment ?
Oh.. job churn, imported foreign workers, deny minimum wage ?
Military adventurism as an economic stimulant ?
Arms manufacture & export as key economic 'driver' ?
Old Snot - white doggie whistle call to arms ?
.. check.. both were/are rock solid Old Snot pimps
Trump is the modern day extremist General Custer
Harper is/was the Big Energy zealot & sellout
Nation Builders ? Legacy leavers ?
Its to laugh.. these are losers faking the political systems out
Manipulators calling out from the sanctity
of their septic tank political party - 'Brands'
That's it.. Public Service reduced to sugared cereal 'branding'
Election Fraud, bizzaro personal ideology, greed & inside trading
the basking in mainstream media adulation and attention
Lying, denying on a daily basis at hyperspeed
Who could possibly keep track of such an entrenched methodology
as mythology meets & merges with fantasyland,
heavily salted with evangelical dogma
'we da good christians' - Friend, can ya send 500 dollah ?
Your list of what they've left behind is extensive, sal. And there is nothing in the list to celebrate.
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