TRUMP SUPPORTERS REACT TO TRUMP’S SUPPORT OF “DREAMERS”

 

…Donald Trump Declaring that he "Loves Dreamers"

 

Here’s a Trump Supporter after hearing Trump will support “Dreamers: “Put a fork in Trump. He is done!”

 

Rep. Steve King (R-IA), is probably the number one GOP “hawk” on US immigration.  He Tweeted a warning to the president after hearing a news reports on Trump’s Chinese White House dinner with the Congressional Democratic Leadership this week.

 

“If AP is correct, Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond repair,” King tweeted.  He was referring to an Associated Press story on the apparent bipartisan verbal agreement between Trump and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer regarding saving the “Dreamers”.  You know, saving those thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

 

King then added, “No promise is credible.”

 

Breitbart News, the conservative website now run again by former White House Chief Strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, quickly became a gathering place for aggrieved Trump backers. Readers congregated by the thousands in the Breitbart comments section on an article with the bright red headline of: “Amnesty Don.”

 

“This is a betrayal of the highest order,” a Breitbart editor said in a later phone call. “Donald Trump should be ashamed of himself. He wasn’t elected to do this.”

 

This editor was echoed by the site’s readers in the comments section:

 

“Put a fork in Trump. He is done.”

 

“PRIMARY TIME!!!!”

 

“What a HUGE let down.”

 

“I can reconcile Trump caving on virtually any issue, Amnesty and not building the wall are not one of them.”

 

And it didn’t stop there.

 

Conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, who is very friendly with Trump, mocked him on the air for seeming to shelve his pledge that has driven his supporters since he launched his campaign.

 

“Exactly what Donald Trump had campaigned on....NOT!!!” Ingraham wrote on Twitter. She later added, “BUILD THE WALL! BUILD THE WALL! … or … maybe … not really.”

 

Conservative author and talk show regular, Ann Coulter, who wrote a book titled “In Trump We Trust”, did not buy the president's explanation.

 

“At this point, who DOESN'T want Trump impeached?” Coulter tweeted.

 

Trump then tried to calm the conservative outrage in a series of tweets that insisted the border wall “will continue to be built” and that no deal was hashed out with Democrats on those “Dreamers.”

 

“No deal was made last night on DACA. Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent. Would be subject to vote,” Trump wrote, referring to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, (DACA), which was an Obama-era program that has allowed 800,000 “Dreamers” to work and go to school without fear of deportation.

 

As he departed the White House, Trump told reporters that “the wall will come later … The wall is going to be built, it'll be funded a little bit later.”

 

“We are working on a plan for DACA,” Trump said, calling the negotiations “fairly close” to concluding. Congressional Republican leaders, he added, were “very much on board” with his position.

 

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted: “While DACA and border security were both discussed, excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to.”

 

Eleven minutes later, Matt House, an adviser to Schumer, tweeted: “The President made clear he would continue pushing the wall, just not as part of this agreement.”

 

Huckabee Sanders’s Twitter assurance, however, did little to calm the negative voices, especially in the populist-nationalist wing of the Republican Party, a wing deeply linked to Trump.

 

“Deep State Wins, Huge Loss for #MAGA,” Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs tweeted, alluding to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.

 

“My sense is that he told Chuck and Nancy what they wanted to hear, and they heard what they wanted to hear. I think there could be some mischief-making on the part of Schumer since the White House is walking it back,” said Mark Krikorian, who runs the Center for Immigration Studies.

 

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-IA, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, tweeted Thursday that his efforts to work with Democrats on immigration policy were "undercut" by Trump's moves and asked the White House staff to "brief me."

 

Meanwhile, of course, to not be left out, Fox News mouth-piece, Sean Hannity, who talks regularly to Trump, directed his temper over the developments not at the president, but at the GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.

 

“Well Mitch, you did a GREAT JOB!” Hannity tweeted, referring to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “You failed so miserably with Healthcare and ‘excessive expectations’ now @POTUS has to deal with Dem Leaders!  I blame R's. They caused this. They wanted him to fail and have now pushed him into the arms of political suicide.”

 

Every Republican asked seems to be trying to walk back whatever happened at the Chinese dinner at the White House with the Democratic leadership.

 

To me, it’s just another example of the President not telling it like it is.  He tells people what they want to hear and then he declares that he never said it.

 

So sad, but he is consistent.

 

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