TPM - LOL! "Trump's Day of Living Cuckorously"

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-s-day-of-living-cuckorously

By JOSH MARSHALL Published FEBRUARY 10, 2017, 5:57 PM EDT

There's always something new in the never-ending, hyperventilating Trump drama. Over the last day or so, however, we're seeing something a bit new: Trump caving or getting rolled on numerous fronts all at once. Just in the last 24 hours he appears to have been rolled so many times that one imagines his rough edges might start to be worn down until he becomes something more like a clumpy and perhaps oblong ball.

Here are just three examples.

Last night the White House released a readout of the President's call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. That readout had this oddly worded sentence: "The two leaders discussed numerous topics and President Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honor our 'one China' policy." This came after weeks of swaggering and provocative moves and statements all declaring that the 'One China Policy', which is foundational for the PRC, was 'on the table.' It is an eminently sane move but also a dramatic back down for President Trump.

Then this afternoon EU foreign policy chief (in effect, the EU foreign minister) Federica Mogherini said that she had been assured in her meetings with top administration officials that the Trump administration intended to "stick to the full implementation of the [Iran nuclear] agreement."

snip - read for the other two.

Last sentence - brilliant - "But for the moment, it's the most ego-bruising 24 hours Trump has been forced to accept in the decades long three weeks of his presidency.

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1. Hello political media?

Does any of this affect President Trump's credibility or integrity for any of you? In addition to the items mentioned in the excerpt above, Trump has also backed off his dramatic tough guy tweet from yesterday about SEE YOU IN COURT. Yesterday, he was stating ominously that the nation's security was at risk because the Ninth Circuit kept the stay intact on his executive order. Today? Apparently the country isn't in deadly peril.

In case you don't know, and it appears that many of you in the media don't, this isn't normal behavior. You might be tired of hearing that, but it keeps happening over and over, day after day.