![]() If anything, Trump is keeping far right rabble rousers like Rush Limbaugh - who goaded Trump to shutdown the government - and Ann Coulter very happy. Well, he just did.Ĭornered on multiple flanks both political and legal, this is Trump’s attempt to shoot the moon with what was a totem for his campaign, and hope people will buy it or maybe skeptics will swing over to his side. This is something he loves doing in his raucous political rallies, there’s no reason for Trump to hijack the most revered physical space in the 18 acres of the White House to whip up the American people with imagined crises coming from immigrant invaders threatening to degrade the country. He’s terrified that his base will leave him, he’s terrified of Robert Mueller and today’s prime time outburst is how Trump deals with his fear: appeal to the worst instincts of his least educated voters. Think John F Kennedy after the Cuban missile crisis, Richard Nixon’s resignation or George Bush after the 9/11 attacks and then compare the Trump show tonight. This is the Trump angst laid bare, a desperation that has nothing to do with any epochal moment in American life, politics or security. This one today blurs the lines between the partisan, false and even illegal. The Oval Office address is a very specific genre and the reason it was marshalled today belongs in some bizarre comic book version. “Pure and unadulterated rubbish” is how Donald Trump’s critics are reacting to the US president’s unhinged address laying the groundwork to bypass a Democratic Congress after threatening all week to invoke a national emergency to prove his eagerness to build the metaphorical (or maybe real) wall along the US-Mexico border. We need to build the wall, the wall need not be a wall, Mexico will pay for the wall and we need to pay for the same wall that Mexico is already funding - we got all versions today from Trump about the phantom wall or unicorn or whatever we choose to call it. The Democratic rebuttal by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer tore into Trump's claims saying he is spreading "malice" and showed him a mirror that says Trump is the sticking point here and nobody else. ![]() Democrats in Congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis", Trump said. The wall will also be paid for, indirectly, by the great trade deal we have made with Mexico. The border wall would very quickly pay for itself. ![]() "At the request of the Democrats, it will be a steel barrier instead of a concrete wall. This was not a national crisis speech, it was Trump using the Oval Office to find an emergency exit out of the soon-to-be longest US Govt shutdown in the last 50 years which is already the fourth-longest in history.ĭonald Trump during his 8 January Oval Office address. He milked national television networks to deliver a divisive speech certain to rile up his most loyal voters. Trump fooled nobody, the racial fears he spouted today are merely a preview of the racial demagoguery that will headline his 2020 campaign. Trump's shtick is getting old and boring, Republicans are slowly breaking from his creed, the first rumblings are being heard today.Ĭonflating the cultural fears of many white voters and reality-free nonsense that he passed off as data, Trump on Tuesday night griped about his all time favourite poison arrow - immigration. ![]() Now, he's saying he'll take a "barrier" for a deal. "This is a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul", Trump said, reading off a teleprompter and retreating from his big beautiful "wall" and introducing a Wall version 3.0. That’s what we got today on the Donald Trump parallel reality prime time show from the Oval Office as the US president exploited his powerful office to reel off a litany of scare stories about illegal immigration and a non-existent “humanitarian crisis” at the US border while 800,000 federal government workers are working without pay since 22 December last year because of the ongoing shutdown over Trump's tantrum over getting his $5.7 billion for a border wall. New York: A Hail Mary presidential address from a bully pulpit on steroids. ![]()
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