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You may recall back at the 2012 RNC, Clint Eastwood gave a speech to a chair that was supposed to represent Barack Obama. It was awkward, unimpressive, and confusing. In other words, it was as well executed as Mitt Romney’s campaign. Like everything else in comparison to Romney, Trump outperformed his convention’s”comedy” by trolling Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi for not showing up to a meeting over tax legislation. Their reason for not showing up was this tweet.
I’ll agree that Donald Trump’s tweet was uncalled for. Trump should have worded by saying he doesn’t see a deal happening today, but will still try. The Demo Duo on the other hand took the tweet and backed out like they were playing a get out of jail free card. Both sides were wrong, however, Donald Trump gets the last laugh with how he handled it.
Perspectives
The real reason Chuck and Nancy won’t meet with the President
This is a strategy that has the potential to work. It’s slim; if the President realizes what they’re doing or believes the advisers who tell him what they’re doing, it can backfire.
Their move to work with their counterparts has nothing to do with the spending bill. It has nothing to do with DACA. This is all about trying to turn President Trump against the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill and visa versa.
In other words, they’re trying to play the egos leading the executive and legislative branches against each other.
Trump Sits Between Empty Chairs Reserved For Chuck and Nancy During White House Meeting
Earlier today House and Senate Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer declared they would not be attending a previously scheduling meeting at the White House to talk about tax reform and avoiding a government shutdown. They were set to meet with President Trump, who did not allow their absence at the meeting to go unnoticed.
Sitting at the center of a conference table, President Trump displayed two empty chairs to his left and right, properly labeled with name tags for Pelosi and Schumer.
Nancy Pelosi: Trump’s ’empty chair photo opp’ shows he’s more interested in stunts than helping Americans
Pelosi and Schumer were expected to attend a White House meeting to discuss a federal government spending package with Trump administration officials and key GOP congressional leaders in order to avoid a government shutdown. But the Democratic pair canceled after the president tweeted earlier on Tuesday that he didn’t “see a deal” being made before the Dec. 8 deadline.
After the meeting, Trump told reporters he would “absolutely blame the Democrats” if the government had to be shut down.
He made the comments while sitting between two empty chairs that had name cards for Pelosi and Schumer set up on the table in front of them.
Earlier, while announcing his intention not to show up for the meeting, Schumer criticized Trump of grandstanding. Schumer did say, however, he was “hopeful” an agreement could still be reached in the next two weeks.
Reactions
.@realDonaldTrump now knows that his verbal abuse will no longer be tolerated. His empty chair photo opp showed he’s more interested in stunts than in addressing the needs of the American people. Poor Ryan and McConnell relegated to props. Sad!
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) November 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/hotfunkytown/status/935736980331212801
"Chuck Shumer and Nancy Pelosi did not show up for our meeting today. I'm not really that surprised. We have a lot of differences," President Trump says, seated between two empty chairs for the Democratic leaders pic.twitter.com/hPBq9DdmbW
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 28, 2017
Final Thoughts
Trump may be childish at times, but he continually changes the game. In this case, he’s making SNL obsolete. While some are bashing Trump for lack of bipartisanship, it’s good to sit down (in an empty chair) and realize nothing would have come out of this meeting anyway. It’s all a game and not even a game of thrones but rather for measly political brownie points. Swampmonsters don’t do much. That’s why nothing gets done in Congress. Perhaps Donald Trump realizes this and is giving us a better laugh than Clint Eastwood did.
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funny – what I see is Trump holding a conference with himself being the only one in the room.
No wonder his “administration” is so uncoordinated and moronic.
No wonder he cannot get anything accomplished through Congress – He won’t work with anyone and only listens to himself when high-level decision-making is called for.
Meanwhile, the Meatheads he’s appoint as cabinet members are the ones actually running the government in SPITE of Trump and having to continually apologize for his stupid tweets & actions.