'His word isn't good': Dems don't trust Trump to make shutdown deal

[DonViejo]

Expectations are low that anything will come of a meeting between Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump.

By BURGESS EVERETT and HEATHER CAYGLE 12/10/2018 05:08 AM EST

Donald Trump’s meeting Tuesday with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer may go a long way toward determining whether the government enters a partial shutdown before Christmas.

But as Democrats seriously re-engage with Trump for the first time in nearly a year, their broad distrust of the president has expectations for a deal at rock bottom.

“We’ve had limited success in dealing with this president,” said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). “His word isn’t good. Within 48 hours he reverses himself. It’s very difficult to enter into a long-term agreement.”

The House and Senate Democratic leaders have been here before. Multiple times over the past two years they thought they'd cut a deal with Trump only to see him swiftly trash “Chuck and Nancy” and demand hefty conservative concessions.

Now Trump is threatening to shut down a large swath of the federal government if he doesn’t get billions in funding for his border wall.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/10/democrats-trump-wall-schumer-pelosi-1051776

[PJMcK]

1. All the Democrats should convey this to Trump and to the media

"Mr. President, you repeatedly told the American people that Mexico would pay for the wall. Why are you now asking the American taxpayers to fund the wall?"

Democrats should not make any wall-funding deals. No compromise on this issue. Period.

It's un-American at its core.

[gratuitous]

2. A simple declarative sentence: His word isn't good

That will be treated by the media as mysterious and ineffable as the monolith from "2001."

[dalton99a]

3. He's as reliable as your local used car salesman, and 100X crazier