On wall, Trump made the worst deals — with worse to come
by Quin Hillyer
| February 18, 2019 08:44 AM
It would be nice if, just once, one of President Trump’s fervid supporters would admit just how stupendously incompetent he is proving to be.
The latest example is perhaps the most egregious. The very fact that this president is trying to use dubious executive authority to solve a spurious “national emergency,†to finance a wall he said Mexico would pay for, to make an end-run around a Congress that had offered him more wall money than he eventually settled for, after costing taxpayers billions of dollars and a nightmare of lost services in a government “shutdown†he deliberately engineered while having no idea how to “win†it, should make it blindingly obvious that he is as feeble a negotiator as the Oval Office has ever seen.
Toto has pulled back the curtain. The wizard is a blowhard and a fraud.
Trump was the one who elevated the “wall†from a moderately important need to a symbol of totemic importance. Trump was the one who said he could make it happen, and that it would be easy. It was Trump who said he would make Democrats bend to his will on the issue, thus turning a give-and-take negotiating scenario into a test of testosterone. How ironic that he lost that particular test to the nation’s first female speaker of the House.
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