what s so interesting when i heard the president declare yesterday he s not moving on tariffs. that has been the one issue snrjs and singer leaders of of of of of that donald trump will have on an issue that is not an issue of convenience for him on these tariffs. this is something he believes to the core of his political soul. i think you re absolutely right, joe. this is a conviction issue for him. i think he really feels this is the best way to do business. i think the danger here, though, is seeing that you can replicate what he did with mexico with china.
everything hit perfect for me that one day. and the statistic we all have focused, i ll blame myself as well, white working class voters that voted for barack obama and then voted for donald trump. what we haven t looked at is the fact that black turnout was the lowest it had been in quite some time and actually went down for the first time in 20 years. and donald trump still lost by 3 million votes in the popular votes and barely won wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. he drew an inside straight. it s going to be so hard for him to do that again. you know, we all and those of us who thought that hillary clinton, despite some of her weaknesses that she would win in 2016, and i was one of those people, had an assumption that she would be able to pull together what they call the coalition of the ascendant, the
rampant in this and this story is yet another reminder. but you know, we can overthink this. i have an answer to your question, what does he care about. he cares about himself. that s all he cares about, himself. and every day is just an extension of a show that he has with setup villains. and it s either joe biden or the mexican government or whatever. but i m wondering if in washington, more people realize this. that this is just a daily show. that the president is obsessed with himself. not the country. not any formulations of plans to improve the country, not his goals for his administration s first term, certainly not would be a second term set of goals, but himself. this is not a big revelation to people in washington. people including republicans who have been paying attention. this is what donald trump has been from day one. he s been you know, he runs the country the way he ran the trump organization, which in this has description is he can
and all of donald trump s are siring, if while the getting as. hire illegal border crossing numbers than barack obama ever had. what you just said the democrats should pay attention to. first of all, the democrats have to reinforce the message that we do have a problem. the crisis has been. christian: loo largely mo mostt mostthethey don t have enough money now to really get a handle on it. that s one thing the democrats have to do frp to stof.
in so he makes up a nk in, there was never a secret agreement. so faux he s moving back to fighting china. well, people are going to catch on. and when suddenly your four years can be reduced to 30-second ads, those 30-second ads are going to be devastating against donald trump and he s not going to be able to tweet his way out of that corner. still ahead on morning joe, as even the trump cabinet secretary happens to be married to mitch mcconnell, whose home state of kentucky is reaping some pb go to bill karins for a check on the forecast. heavy rain just moved to new