man. i received calls from the president of mechanics cxico an minister of canada and asking to renegotiate. he said they called him. this was a pre-planned call with the president setting up the time. that doesn t mean it didn t get. he puts out or floats out we walk away. they call in and say let s not walk away. let s negotiate out the terms that you want. you saw in the clips. he used the phrase renegotiate a few times during the campaign. this is classic donald trump negotiating strategy. it appears to be working. it got their attention. he starts from the position that is dramatic. they feel like it is a win. similar to the nato stuff where he was saying we may pull out of nato. we may pull back from troops in
donald trump said today, look, i m not the only nat had this adversarial relationship with the press, look at past presidents, abraham lincoln, thomas jefferson, give us context. is it the same? one president who had a very adversarial relationship with the press was richard nixon. this was a theme of much of his campaign, his vice president talked about the kinds of arguments they thought that the press made, and ultimately, the press became a big part of uncovering the watergate story. many presidents have had fights with the press, adversarial relations, but we re watching a president setting up much of his first month in office creating a villain out of the entire media institution. this is his new campaign opponent. hillary clinton is no longer in the picture. so he s made it to media. it ll depend how far it goes and
americans, including some minorities who generally back president obama on just about everything. in chicago, where black children are being gunned down in the streets, the president s call for almost $4 billion to deal with immigrant children, is being met with disdain. the president setting aside all of these funds for immigrants and forsake african-american community and african-american families, i think that s a disgrace. in houston, there is also growing anger. it s not right. now billions of dollars want to be borrowed from the white house to help feed and house them. what about the god damn kids here in our neighborhood? in our country? not just in this neighborhood but in our country? now, it s easy to understand why poor americans resent the illegal immigration intrusion. there are other big problems as well. feds are now shipping illegal aliens all over the country but not informing the states about what s
americans, including some minorities who generally back president obama on just about everything. in chicago, where black children are being gunned down in the streets, the president s call for almost $4 billion to deal with immigrant children, is being met with disdain. the president setting aside all of these funds for immigrants and forsake african-american community and african-american families, i think that s a disgrace. in houston, there is also growing anger. it s not right. now billions of dollars want to be borrowed from the white house to help feed and house them. what about the god damn kids here in our neighborhood? in our country? not just in this neighborhood but in our country? now, it s easy to understand why poor americans resent the illegal immigration intrusion. there are other big problems as well. feds are now shipping illegal aliens all over the country but not informing the states about what s
pattern to how people get fired from the obama administration, really stan mcchrystal, the general out there in afghanistan is the only one that s gotten fired, made a mistake, two days later, out of a job. that isn t the way president obama operates. in many ways, if you re sort of led to believe, hey, there s the door, you should go find your way out, but you re given time and space to do so, so while i hear what you re saying and that certainly makes sense if you re in the communications staff of the white house, this also fits the other pattern of the president wanting to give shinseki the opportunity to resign before the president s hand is forced. well, let s go back to last week, gentlemen, when president obama told reporters in no uncertain terms that the va secretary was on thin ice. here s the president setting basically what looks to me like a trap for action. i have said to rick, and i said it to him today, i want to