Poor little boy says nobody loves him
by digby
…..Mexico was not being cooperative on the Border in things we had, or didn’t have, and now I have full confidence, especially after speaking to their President yesterday, that they will be very cooperative and want to get the job properly done. Importantly, some things…..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2019
…..there is not, we can always go back to our previous, very profitable, position of Tariffs – But I don’t believe that will be necessary. The Failing @nytimes, & ratings challenged @CNN, will do anything possible to see our Country fail! They are truly The Enemy of the People!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2019
Trump is pouting because everyone can see through his little Mexico temper tantrum “accomplishment.”
As critics continued to suggest the U.S. deal with Mexico didn’t accomplish much, President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning there is more to the agreement than meets the eye.
“Importantly, some things….. …..not mentioned in yesterday press release, one in particular, were agreed upon. That will be announced at the appropriate time,“ the president wrote in a string of four tweets.
Trump was defending his newly announced agreement with Mexico in the face of reporting that much of what was in the deal was not new. In his tweets, he directly attacked the New York Times and CNN, calling them “the Enemy of the People.“
While proudly defending the agreement and saying he expected Mexico to be “very cooperative,“ the president said that he could always return to the threat of tariffs: “We can always go back to our previous, very profitable, position of Tariffs – But I don’t believe that will be necessary.“
Trump had threatened Mexico with a succession of higher tariffs in order to push the country to do more to keep migrants from El Salvador and other Central American nations from reaching the U.S. border. Migrants have been coming in great numbers for months, often, they say, to escape relentless violence in their home countries. It’s not clear how successful Mexico can be in stopping them from coming.
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Forty minutes after his string of tweets, Trump made it clear he‘s feeling very much unappreciated:
If President Obama made the deals that I have made, both at the Border and for the Economy, the Corrupt Media would be hailing them as Incredible, & a National Holiday would be immediately declared. With me, despite our record setting Economy and all that I have done, no credit!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2019
I’ve known five year-olds who whine less.
The fact is that this “deal” was a result of Trump having a temper tantrum and wanting to shift the news cycle away from talk of impeachment in the wake of Mueller’s press conference. It worked. For a while. But talk of impeachment isn’t going away. And he’s having himself a good old fashioned cry.
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