WaPo: 'A watershed moment': Trump faces crossroads amid mounting threats on all sides

[Miles Archer]

‘A watershed moment’: Trump faces crossroads amid mounting threats on all sides



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-watershed-moment-trump-faces-crossroads-amid-mounting-threats-on-all-sides/2019/02/02/0f019554-2587-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html

When President Trump delivers his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, a Democrat will be seated at the rostrum over his shoulder for the first time.

The presence of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will bring into fresh relief not only the power shift in the Capitol, with the opposition party now able to thwart the president’s agenda, but also the converging pressures on Trump that have brought his presidency to a crossroads.

Trump dealt himself a political defeat with the 35-day government shutdown. He has secured no funding to construct a border wall and is preparing to declare a national emergency to fulfill his campaign promise. He is newly at odds with the nation’s intelligence chiefs and some senators in his own party. The Russia investigation, which has ensnared several of the president’s allies, appears to be nearing its conclusion. New congressional oversight investigations will start soon. And the race to defeat him at the ballot box has kicked off in earnest.

“This is a watershed moment,” said Chris Whipple, author of “The Gatekeepers,” a history of White House chiefs of staff. “Time is running out. This is a last chance to really get things right.”

[nocoincidences]

1. There is no "getting things right" for Trump.

Even if he tried and tried the best he could do is screw it up.

That's what he does, has done, and always will do.

Leopards can't change their spots.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Trumpy: Bombast and Money--

yields earning the title “King of Debt.” It also fits into our whacko presidential politics, in which abject failure is always an option, and in Trumpy’s case, is a dead certainty.

[Miles Archer]

5. Of course not

Speaker Pelosi will be sitting behind him at the SOTU. That alone is going to drive him nuts.

This is being pimped as a "unity" speech, and that won't happen for two reasons. First, it's written by Miller. Second, the temptation to once again go off script will be more than Trump can handle.

[stopbush]

6. Yep. tRump long ago passed his "get it right" sell date.

But rest assured, after tRump blows it Tuesday with another embarrassing performance, the WaPo will be there to tell us that he still has a chance to “get it right.”

[scarytomcat]

2. and there he sits with nothing on his desk

staring at his tiny figures

[femmedem]

3. Looks to me like one of the shots where his fingers were photoshopped to be longer.

Not that I'm an expert. But the length from his knuckle to his fingertip looks too long relative to the base of his finger.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Not at DU he doesn't. Right now there are more threads about a Democrat than about the treason

and collusion and stolen election.

[Scurrilous]

8. K&R

[kentuck]

9. Every time he lies, Nancy will shake her head...

She will be shaking her head a lot.

[ffr]

10. He needs to be slapped in the back of the head.

RESIGN, ASSHOLE! You are a traitor to the United States and your circle of criminals will always be dishonorably remembered as traitors!

Nothing will ever change that.