Like a pinball machine: Lawmakers struggle to negotiate with an erratic Trump
President Trump began last week trumpeting his idea to arm teachers. A couple days later, he alarmed fellow Republicans by embracing broader background checks and suggesting police should seize guns from mentally disturbed people without first going to court.
By the end of the week, Trump had huddled with leaders of the National Rifle Association, with both sides hailing each other on Twitter.
Heading into a new week, lawmakers still have no sense of what Trump truly wants on guns and other key agenda items — a pattern that leaders of both parties say has hindered their ability to move forward on knotty issues that could benefit from presidential leadership.
After more than a year of the Trump presidency, members of Congress have learned to brace themselves for unpredictable, confusing and often contradictory positions from the commander in chief on issues ranging from health care to immigration to gun rights.
“It’s totally not on a straight line,” Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) said of Trump’s negotiating style. “It’s zigzagging, something like a pinball machine. But he does move [the ball] down.”
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Gravity moves the ball down Rep. King. The objective of the game is to keep the ball in play. Bad comparison.
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