He’s trying HARD Right Now…
It Seems Donald J. Trump does NOT give Shit about the daily reports of damage to fired Americans, Disrupted Government agencies and departements, Economy uncertainty, Frayed Foreign Relations, and coming Trouble for his adopted Political party….
He seems intent to driviong the American Government and Country INTO a Ditch….
And?
Trump & Co. doesn’t seem to have much REAL Opposition….
Nor does he seem to have a internal staff that DOES care and push BACK against things thgeir boss might be doing wrong…
Cept the Thosands and maybe MILLIONS Marching against Trump today April 5th….
But the relationship has constantly been a fraught one — one in which Trump holds just about all the cards and seems to care about his adopted party only insofar as it can help him.
Republicans might want to start asking themselves what they do if and when it all blows up — and if Graham’s admonition might ultimately prove right. Because right now Trump is effectively threatening them with potential destruction, with little to no sign that he cares what they think about that….
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“He’s at the peak of just not giving a f— anymore,” a White House official with knowledge of Trump’s thinking told The Post. “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a f—. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. He’s going to do what he promised to do on the campaign trail.”
This is an anonymous quote. And the White House certainly has reason to project resoluteness. Trump himself posted Friday, “MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE,” and, “ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!”
But we’re also in a very different Trump presidency than the first version. Gone are many of the non-loyalists who might seek to check his impulses, as former Trump commerce secretary Wilbur Ross suggestively noted to The Post’s reporters. (“The people now have been confirmed as true Trumpers,” Ross said.) Trump isn’t eligible to run for another term, so his personal political considerations are lessened…
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The fact that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a bill shortly after Trump’s tariff announcement seeking to return tariff power to Congress is also telling. These aren’t the Susan Collinses and Lisa Murkowskis that often distance themselves from Trump.
But the other reality here is that, just like Congress unwittingly green-lit this Trump gambit by handing its tariff prerogatives over to the executive branch over the decades, Republicans have ceded the initiative to Trump for many years. Their unwillingness to criticize him even when they obviously disagreed has served to enable Trump’s domination of the party. It’s the product of years of making the expedient call to just let Trump be Trump.
It’s now become clear that the old Trump was contained because of the people around him and his own political considerations. The new Trump is a different animal.
And when he finally does go too far — and risks his fellow Republicans’ hides — they have little to fight back with. Which is what we’re seeing now. To the extent Trump does walk the party into destruction, they’ve handed him the leash.
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