united states. remember, trump got less than 45% of the vote in the gop primaries. he was not the first choice of a majority of republicans. but in november, the so-called reluctant trump voter was born, basically republicans who didn t really want to vote for trump but voted for trump and there are signs that some of them had enough. trump s approval ratings has been trending downwards all all listen to what a group of voters in pittsburgh had to say. five of these people voted for trump. outrageous. dishonest. disappointed. narcissistic. abject disappointment. unique. not ready to be president. off the scale. crazy. completely unfit to be president. unbelievable. contemptible. everyone in the focus group was disappointed and impatient with the president. what most disappoints me is he s such an incredibly flawed
platitudes platitudes. we would like to bring our business tax rate down to 15% which would make our tax rate lower than most countries. we believe that ordinary americans know better than washington how to spend their own money, and we want to help them take home as much of their money as possible. when businesses compete for labor, your wages will go up. lower taxes on american business means higher wages for american workers. the white house had sought to frame the speech as seizing the populist mantle but at least one trump super fan wasn t buying it. ann coulter tweeted wtf, why is donald trump back to tax cuts? has he been talking to speaker ryan again. and then, oh stop pretending this is about letting families keep more of their money. this is for wall street. the president s push for a tax overhaul comes at a time when his influence on capitol hill and over his own branch of the government is at a low point thanks in large part to the health care debacle and the
it is unnerving. it s unnerving particularly with regard to foreign policy because it means our friends, allies and even our enemies in the world are just utterly puzzled at what s going on in the united states. but in the sense of my citizenship in this republic, i m encouraged by the fact that we do have some talent and some brains and some strategic thinking and key cabinet posts, and they re not going to sit down and take this president s bali hoo and tweeting and orders and they re going to do what s best for the country. we might wind up having a constitutional crises because of that but i ll buy that before i buy everybody just totying up to a president who doesn t know what he s doing and carrying out his orders irrespective of the rekt tud of those orders. what do you mean by a constitutional crises? you might have key members of the cabinet going over to the congress and saying things under the table and manufacturing a
now, i m not here to judge whether he did or didn t. each person will have to judge for themselves, but i think there s a very serious case to be made that although the president went, give him credit for that, didn t make any big mistakes, but he sort of came and went and ran the risk of seem irrelevant. this is part of the problem he s having with his presidency, whether he is all show and no go. or as they would say in texas, all hat and no cattle, because he can t deliver. to the most important powers of the presidency are the power to persuade and the power to invoke fear. that s been shrinking with the early stages of the trump presidency. that s exactly what we saw on display in two ways, both on the tax speech and what we saw with mattis. on that mattis moment, the chain of command is clear. the commander-in-chief who is the democratly elected civilian of the armed forces. there s a question of who
springfield, missouri to talk about taxes. this is was the split screen on tv, juxtaposing the president s remarks with hurricane harvey. as more cities and towns in southeast texas faced catastrophic flooding from what is already the biggest rain storm in the history of the continental u.s. after visiting texas yesterday where he was briefed on relief efforts but did not meet with victims of the storm, today the president acknowledged the personal toll harvey has taken. the focus of his speech which he read from a teleprompter was the so-called tax reform, a big push to reset the agenda following the collapse of health care and the failure of his legislative achievement. the president hitting the road to sell the gop tax plan to the american people. there s just one problem. they don t have a tax plan. for weeks officials have been meeting to try and come up with a blueprint. as one tax analyst told