‘Off The Rails’: Inside Trump’s Attempt to Claim Victory in His Border Wall Defeat

From The Washington Post

Robert Costa, Rachael Bade, Josh Dawsey, Seung Min Kim wrote:

After three weeks of pained negotiations to keep the federal government open, President Trump almost blew the whole thing up again on Thursday.

Headed for another defeat on his signature promise to make either Mexico or U.S. taxpayers pay for a southern border wall, the president was frustrated after a briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and others on details of the final deal to avoid a shutdown, according to officials involved in the discussions. Trump threatened not to sign the legislation, the officials said, putting the government on the brink of another damaging shutdown.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was on the phone with Trump at least three times during the course of the nerve-racking day, pressing him to stay the course and asserting that Democrats had actually lost the spending fight, two people familiar with the conversations said.

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He is still on this notion that he is going to declare a national emergency to be able to use the military to build the border wall. He doesn't think things through considering he claims to be the smartest guy in Washington, D.C. He's gonna find out the hard way that being President doesn't mean you get to throw your weight around. It's no wonder that he's the laughingstock of world leaders. In fact, it's those very leaders who dismiss Donald Trump as a world leader. World leaders had more respect for Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Donald Trump gets no respect because he hasn't earned that respect, and that's because he respects NO ONE!

Donald Trump believes he is God's gift to the office of President of the United States, so much so, he had his Press Secretary say in an interview that Almighty God wanted him to be President (a statement that I categorically rebuke). Bottom line, the self-proclaimed "smartest guy in the room" has set himself up to fail... again. So tell me, Mr. Trump, you know how to win, how does look like winning?

Just Saying.