so, david, here s ivanka trump making her entrarnce into the room to break up the meeting, a meeting the republicans didn t want to end because they were trying no doubt to kind of put the toothpaste back in the tube and somehow come out of there with some kind of deal they could live with after what the president said. but there was that crazy sitcom ending to the meeting that only ivanka trump could provide. i mean as you pointed out, there are just multiple ways in which trump seems to be struggling at the basics of the job of president. and today gives us a really big example. i do think it s important to point out that this isn t just about trump s weakness. now, a lot of it is about trump s weakness, but it isn t just about that. it s also about the dysfunction of the republican caucus in congress. as you pointed out, they wouldn t need democrats for this if they were willing to vote for the debt ceiling increase. the debt ceiling increase isn t really a meaningful piece of leg
up with a plan when your president, supposedly your greatest ally in this effort, will just turn around and cut you off at the knees as they said. so i think it s a gut punch on a lot of levels and does put everything they want to do, including the tax cuts, in real danger. the way donald trump conducts business in the oval office, including today, has that crazy sitcom feel to it like a scene out of veep. the new york times reporting that mr. trump often invites his daughter, ivanka trump, into meetings to signal their conclusion or to keep his interlock yew tors off balance. when they entered the oval office toward the end of the discussion on wednesday, the republicans in the room reacted with expressions that two people described as astonishment. so, david, here s ivanka trump making her entrance into the room to break up the meeting, a meeting the republicans didn t want to end because they were trying no doubt to kind of put the toothpaste back in the tube and somehow come
misleading to try to twist what the cbo score is saying. we can t let him direct failure of republicans take us away from the fact that they still need to get repealed on and their promise to voters. that s not true. i think we need to focus on what speaker ryan just set a few days ago, he said there several dozen bare patches and this is the rhetoric i am talking about. it s misleading the american people. i am all for fixing obamacare. there are changes that need to be made but we cannot use this language to make it seem like we are dealing with something completely wrong or nefarious in nature, it is not. there are only two go bare patches and we need to come together in a bipartisan way to fix anything that is wrong. jon: you can t put the toothpaste back in the tube but if obamacare had never been
vaughn had parodied jfk but it was still a new thing to make fun of the president at all. he s here using my gestures and using my lines. do not ask what this country can do for you. that s my original line. i read from mr. meader s comment. i thought it was bob s instead of mine. we like to take them down a peg. gerald ford was like a football player. like he s like a really great athlete. but in the public s mind, once chevy started doing gerald, trying get that toothpaste back in the tube. i have two announcements to make. uh-oh. no problem, no problem. as a kid i didn t know anything about president ford.
right? fdr wasn t the first in radio but he re-invented it. barack obama really the first twitter president, came under him but trump defined himself. social media going forward in politics, no putting that toothpaste back in the tube. right? whether somebody does it as combatively as this man, this sort of fire hose, raw unfiltered id, seemed unlikely. the more criticism he gets, seems the more defiant about his twitter. exactly. goes back, i think it s in his dna. his father fred trump raised him to believe the worst thing than bankruptcy is obscurity. his father used to drop leaflets announcing his building projects over the city. like the early tweet? right? so he has this innate sense and in all the years in new york tabloids of working the press, going around the press, and this idea that this machine that jack dorsey built in 2006, when the press was falling out of the top 50, created this perfect storm with man, message and machine. can t wait to see it. great to see you.