“Trump plans to make Democrats an offer to end shutdown, not declare national emergency, in Saturday speech”

Just call me the Amazing Kreskin. Here is my prediction.

Trump will offer to make some concessions on other matters in order to get his border wall.

They will be meaningful and realistic concessions of a statesmanlike nature, filled with well-researched key details about where a wall is really necessary, and a willingness to take only the amount needed to build that portion of the wall, in exchange for a deal on the Dreamers. He will also offer a sincere apology for having let the stalemate go on long enough to hurt so many American families and the economy in general. He will establish himself as a compassionate man and great leader who considers the welfare of his fellow Americans more important than his own ego, thus shaming the Democrats quietly and subtly, without his usual insults and ad hominem or ad mulierem arguments.

Just kidding.

This will not be a sincere attempt to end the impasse, but will be yet another political ploy to shift blame for the shut-down. He will offer concessions that the Democrats have already rejected. When they reject them again, he will say “See, the shut-down is the Democrats’ fault. I tried.”

Now he might not do that, but that is exactly what Richard Nixon would do, and Trump frequently uses the Nixon playbook. Nixon never stopped playing politics. There was, however, a major difference between Nixon and Trump: given a choice between ruining the country or ruining himself, Nixon finally chose to step aside in disgrace to let the country heal. It happened after many attempts to lie and deflect and defend his way out of it, but ultimately he spared the country when he finally realized that he really was the dead mouse that had to be swept from America’s kitchen floor, as commentator Nicholas von Hoffman had suggested.

I don’t see Trump ever thinking that a mere country is more important than Donald Trump.

No country. Not even Russia.

That’s where America is now. We have a President with less character than Richard Milhous Nixon. How many of you guys who remember Nixon ever thought that to be even a remote possibility?

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Secondary prediction: when the Dems inevitably reject his insincere offer, Trump will first blame the Dems for the stalemate, let that sink in for a day or two, then have no choice but to play the national emergency card “for the good of the country and the safety of all good Americans.”

“Good Americans,” of course, translates as all white Americans, unless they are gay, or Jewish, or young, or have a vagina, or dislike Hannity.

He will make an exception in the vagina case if they are really hot. We do need to ensure the safety of our precious and endangered national reserve of supermodels.

I am not as confident that Trump will do this portion of the prediction, because it would require him to think two moves ahead (I’ll do this, they will respond like that, so then I’ll do this). I am not confident that he can plan that far in advance. On the other hand, he may end up deciding to do that in anger, even if it is not in his current thinking.

11 thoughts on ““Trump plans to make Democrats an offer to end shutdown, not declare national emergency, in Saturday speech”

  1. Trump is planning to offer a three yr. deal on DACA but not a road to permanent citizenship sought by the Dems.

  2. I predict this will be his “yellow cake” speech and he will try to scare Americans with something bigger than drugs and rapists. Yesterday he tweeted about prayer rugs being found, so today could be just about anything.

  3. He won’t do the national emergency. He already knows it’s a dead end. (a 1978 law places long term emergencies in the oversight of congress, it can’t be used to fund the wall)

    It’ll also be a guaranteed loss, likely with a judgement against him in a court.

    He’ll threaten, but he won’t go there.

    1. By any objective measure, that law has failed. Thirty states of emergency are in effect today—several times more than when the act was passed. Most have been renewed for years on end. And during the 40 years the law has been in place, Congress has not met even once, let alone every six months, to vote on whether to end them.

      1. I’m not sure what measure you mean as far as failing. If you mean in the sense that it’s living up to the definition of an imminent emergency, then I guess not. Each President has to renew them each year though, its not as if they’re some unattended issue.

        Basically every one of the current ones are prohibition of assets, transactions, or property on US soil by corrupt foreign governments or criminal organizations. I don’t know of any that have ever been a capital project declaration, that’s why it would be struck down in court.

  4. The minute Nixon got pardoned, that opened the door for the next Nixon-level rat. Politics being what they are, we should probably be a little surprised it took so long,

  5. Never forget that a lot of Americans voted for Trump fully aware of what kind of individual he is.

    1. Like the bold and intelligent folks at Fox just said:
      Republicans ran in ’18 on: vote for us or the wall won’t get built.
      Dems ran on: vote for us, we won’t let the wall get built.
      Elections have consequences.

      1. Donald Trump has done everything that his supporters claim made them concerned about Hillary Clinton, yet, they still support him. Anybody who still argues he’s ‘better than Hillary’ is either ignorant or lying. In most cases, what Trump has actually done compared to the mostly half truth claims of what Hillary Clinton did is much worse.

        1.Clinton Foundation – Trump using Presidential office for personal and family financial benefit.

        2.Unsecured server and emails – Trump using personal unprotected cellphone to conduct government business and constantly ripping up government documents.

        3.Benghazi – Trump’s failed military raid in Yemen that left one soldier dead.

        4.Hillary will lead us to a war with Russia – Trump will lead us to a war with China and North Korea.

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