TRUMP WAS A TOTAL EMBARRASSMENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE ROSE GARDEN

…Trump being a total disgrace in the White House Rose Garden

The Senate leader, McConnell agreed to publicly support the Trump declaration that he thinks is a very bad idea.

Anyone who didn’t believe there is a national emergency is clearly wrong, that’s because Donald Trump in the White House is the national emergency,

Donald Trump has sign the bill funding government Friday and, at the same time, El Presidente also declared the national emergency he’s using in order for him to call this whole debacle a political win. 

Trump’s allies concede there was no winner here: “Zero chance you could spin this as a win for Republicans,” this was according to the Republican House Freedom Caucus leader, Rep. Mark Meadows. “Bluntly, it was a waste of three weeks from Trump’s cave-in for reopening government to the total capitulation of the bipartisan deal to keep government open.”

Trump had actually, once again turned against the deal to keep the government open on Thursday: “We thought he was good to go all morning, and then suddenly it’s like everything was off the rails,” a Republican White House aide told the Washington Post.

Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell spent Thursday cajoling Trump, reportedly talking to him on the phone at least three times to keep him from shutting down the government again.  This was just three weeks after Trump’s record-breaking shutdown.  In the end, in order to get Trump to sign the deal, Leader McConnell had to agree to support Trump’s national emergency declaration. 

To show this event as to what it really was, according to a former Republican member of Congress: “You’re watching Mitch McConnell eat a manure sandwich in this whole process,” as McConnell agrees to publicly support a declaration that he actually thinks is a very bad idea, and that may prevent something that’s an even worse Trump idea.

McConnell was just one of a number of congressional Republicans focused mainly on convincing Trump to sign a bill everyone realized was a bad deal.

Trump and Republicans have lost serious ground because of the massively unpopular former shutdown.  The story of the last couple months is the story of Trump continually  losing ground.

As Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer told the Post, “I think the president’s view was that he could get us to fold, but once he learned he couldn’t bully us into doing what he wanted, once he learned that the public was on our side, he realized he should give up.”

What is really bad about Trump signing the bill to keep the government open, is that the US Congress did not include in the bill the ability for those contractors that had lost their wages, to also be paid for their loss of two pay checks over the weeks that they didn’t work.  This debacle was solely due to Trump’s stubbornness.  These are the poorest of those federal contract workers and many contractor companies are being forced into bankruptcy because, due to their competitive businesses, they have had work on such small profit margins.

In Trump’s bizarre Rose Garden appearance, Trump virtually stumbled out of the White House, both breathless and confused, as he opened his presentation by starting to talk about trade negotiations in China.  He had nothing to really report, other than: “who knows if anything would actually be done [with the trade negotiations].

Then, he wandered around the world, talking about the UK, Syria, North Korea, and anything but getting to the point.  Without any transition, he began talking about the border, then the economy, then the stock market, and then the border again.  He smiled and chuckled over the joys of his El Paso rally, then he zigged-zagged to Israel, then he genuinely fell into his fantasy idea about women being hijacked.  “Three, four women, being tied up in the back of a van with tape over their mouths.” Yes, Trump’s emergency declaration included his women-with-tape-on-their-mouths fantasy, and Trump insisted that “Nancy knows, and Chuck knows that these women won’t be coming through ports of entry.”  Chuck & Nancy never thought that these women were what was coming illegally coming through the US Ports-of-Entry.  They were referring to illegal drugs.

Then Trump went forward and stated what the well known lawyer, and husband of Kellyanne Conway, had tweeted as to what should be the first item in the lawsuits against Trump’s national emergency declaration.  Trump actually said "he didn’t really need to declare the national emergency, but he wanted to declare this to make it go faster." That's not a national emergency.  The courts should throw out Trump's declaration.

Guess what?  That statement was in fact, the first item in the first suit against the president’s national declaration right after the Rose Garden event.

In that Rose Garden presentation, Trump actually talked about Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter and how much he like all three of them.  But right after the presentation, Ann Coulter came on the air at Fox and called the president "an idiot!" (One of the first times I have agreed with Ms. Coulter.)  Remember, it was these three that criticized the president on the air and their comments had made the president declare the longest ever shutdown of the US government.

Also, during the Rose Garden event, Trump actually began bragging about how much better China is than the United States because they have the death penalty for people who sell drugs.

Trump then went back to bragging on the economy, and claimed that if a Democrat had been in office, the economy would have been “down the tubes” instead of “through the roof!  Trump said that it’s because he’s created such a great economy that “far more people” are trying to enter the country today “than ever before.”  These are all of course, just other huge Trump lies.

In the Q & A at the end of the presentation, reporters asked Trump how he could defend his declaration taking money from military programs.  Trump started off saying that people tried to explain the details to him, but that “It didn’t sound too important to me.” Then he went into extensive bragging about how much money he’s given the US military, so “how could they miss a few billion?”  He said he’s given the military so much that a few billion won’t hurt them.

Asked about his violating the US Constitution, Trump claimed that: “Not too many people have said that, courts will determine that, I expect to get sued … I shouldn’t be sued … We will be very successful in court.” 

Pointing out that he criticized Obama for using executive power, the next reporter suggested Trump hadn’t been able to make his $5+ billion deal for his border wall, and that comment clearly offended Trump. “I went through Congress! I made a deal! I got $1.4 billion when I wasn’t supposed to get anything, not one dollar!  I’m not happy with it.  On everything else I got so much money I don’t know what to do with it.”

Then, in a statement that was more than a little bit true: “The only reason why we're up here talking about this is because of the midterm election.”

Trump then got back on the China trade deal. “I happen to like tariffs ... We’re taking in billions and billions … Our steel industry is so vibrant now again, they’re building plants all over the country.”  These statements aren’t even close to being true … but you should just assume that about everything Trump says.

Asked about why what he was saying was so different from the facts put out by his own government agencies, Trump simply denied those real facts. Trump told the CNN reporter:  “Because you’re CNN, you’re fake news! Your numbers are all wrong.” He insisted that reporters should look at how many inmates in federal prisons are undocumented immigrants. Asked the same question again by the next reporter, he simply cut off the questioner, claiming that his numbers came from Homeland Security, which in reality those numbers are much different from what Trump says they are ” 

Then Trump complained that Obama never deserved his Nobel Peace Prize, but Trump deserved one.  He said this is because Trump said he had read something in the paper about Russia and Iran going to war in Syria and he had put out a statement saying “You better not do it”.  According to Trump, that statement saved a lot of people.  

Really, I’m not kidding.  He actually said this statement had kept Russia and Iran from invading Syria and killing millions of people.

He then claimed that Japan supports him for the Nobel Prize and …he then said good-bye to everyone and we’re off to play golf!

After this Rose Garden event, I happened to see a newspaper political cartoon where it showed Trump on TV saying he was “Declaring a National Emergency”.  The cartoon showed an American citizen watching Trump make the declaration on TV and the American was saying, “And I’m declaring you’re a national embarrassment!”

I would bet that many leaders of other nations that watched this Rose Garden presentation by the president, they agreed with that political cartoon.

Copyright G. Ater 2019