Trump tosses the 'boring' Republican script to rally his base
by W. James Antle III
| April 06, 2018 12:01 AM
Speaking at a tax reform roundtable in West Virginia, President Trump literally threw away his prepared remarks to launch into an attack on “weak†immigration laws and “incompetently drawn†trade deals that allow Americans to be “taken advantage of.â€
“It would have taken about two minutes, but what the hell,†Trump said after tossing a piece of paper as the crowd laughed. “That would have been a little boring. Little boring. No, I'm reading off the first paragraph and I said, ‘This is boring. Come on.’â€
Flanked by two Republican Senate candidates, Trump is busy campaigning to preserve and even expand the GOP majorities on Capitol Hill. “We have to get Republicans in office,†he said. But he has increasingly been discarding the traditional Republican script to emphasize his own populist themes.
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