Nobody Wants to Point to Trump’s Many LOSES…..

And that’s not all! Trump’s tariffs are a story of losing and losing again, most recently in postponing higher tariffs that he threatened Europe with. Trump does appear to have won a few bribes, but so far at least he has pretty much nothing else to show for all his threats.

His attempts to conquer Greenland, Canada, and portions of Panama are pathetic jokes. His dream of ethnic cleansing in Gaza followed by US occupation is a sick, sad, joke. His claims that he could end wars in Gaza and Ukraine? All bluster. More losing. As was his brief escalation against the Houthis in Yemen.[fn at least he lost well there]

Even where he seems to win, he loses. Take the megabill that the House passed last week. Yes, Trump seems to have helped get the bill over the finish line. And House Republicans did include his various tax promises from the 2024 campaign, so that (so far) counts as a real win for the president. But along the way, he repeatedly said he was against slashing Medicaid, and they entirely ignored him – indeed, after he came to the Hill early last week and told them to leave Medicaid alone, they wound up adding additional cuts to get House Freedom Caucus radicals on board.

The truth is that the bill that passed the House is much more similar to the pre-Trump GOP than to any supposed capture of the party’s agenda by the president. Or, to put it more broadly: Whatever the “Trump” agenda might have been, outside of the trade war he’s been rolled by Republican radicals, RFK Jr.’s health cranks, and Elon Musk’s personal interests and prejudices. (Yes, sometimes some of that stuff overlaps with recognizable Trump preferences, but when his impulses conflict with others he’s often – usually – rolled).

And this is all on top of another set of setbacks that I wrote about in early May.

Really, no president loses as much as Trump loses….

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