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Researcher and writer Michael DAntonio thinks that President Donald Trump is getting scared.
In a conversation with CNN, the Trump biographer listened as host Don Lemon read the presidents tweet caving into Speaker Nancy Pelosis hold on the State of the Union.
Have you ever heard this president write something like that? Lemon asked. It seems like a normal presidency.
Its shocking, DAntonio said. This sounds like something that maybe Ivanka wrote or Jared Kushner. It really doesnt sound like Donald Trumps language. This is a fellow who has troubles stringing three words together in the right order.
DAntonio noted its also respectful, which isnt exactly Trumps style. Lemon asked what it meant his guest had a shocking assessment.
I think hes scared. Hes afraid, the biographer continued. Hes politically afraid the Senate Republicans are probably telling him this is a disaster. He sees that people are suffering and are fed up with maybe hes going to act presidential because hes being forced to act presidential.
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Cha
(297,799 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,539 posts)Actually I think someone else has his phone.
Cha
(297,799 posts)the US media got it wrong again. I remember Van Jones saying it.
Yes, to his phone being hijacked.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)To him they are like tv ratings.
Ergo, he knew if he continued somebody would cancel him so he changed his act. Aah! The magic of make believe!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is finally having his feet held to the fire and he can't stand the pain. He won't endure. Pelosi will outwit him and outlast him. He doesn't have the temperament for this kind of political engagement.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Trump hasn't exactly covered himself in glory, has he? It's at this point in a negotiation that Trump typically goes looking for another vendor/sucker/rube to make a deal with, but in this case, he can't turn to another House of Representatives or another Speaker of the House to get his way.
He's going to have to cave, and when he does, I hope the media hound him with questions about why he couldn't have concluded the exact same deal weeks earlier, and spared so many people such pain.
Thekaspervote
(32,809 posts)DFW
(54,448 posts)He only watches Fox Noise, and I doubt he sees any negative consequences of his actions being prominently displayed on there.
Poll numbers are another consideration entirely. With his national support drifting down to about one third, even though the Senate, being in essence a national gerrymander, won't reflect that yet, someone will be waving a warning flag in the White House at some point. "Hey, Jared, tell me again, HOW many Senators do they need to convict and remove me from office if the House impeaches me?"
misanthrope
(7,432 posts)In keeping with his behavior to date, I think he has a stunt up his sleeve. His Roy Cohn-inspired philosophy would nearly dictate trying to spring something on his opponent(s). He's the kind of guy who thinks it's better to go down swinging.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Vinca
(50,318 posts)And who really thinks he wrote the tweet ceding to Nancy?
malaise
(269,219 posts)that Speaker Pelosi has way more power than dis-inviting him from the SOU presentation.
That is why they are terrified.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)And Pelosi is not afraid to wield it. That power rightfully belongs to her.