CNN😎: 'Surreal' Trump meeting on guns left Republicans reeling, Democrats optimistic

[spanone]

(CNN)Nobody knew quite what to think.

After a wide-ranging, televised meeting Wednesday at the White House, Democrats walked away stunned and with some tepid optimism that something substantial could happen on guns, while Republicans appeared flummoxed.

After all, President Donald Trump had defied traditional GOP orthodoxy on an issue as essential to the Republican brand as any: guns.

And unlike earlier meetings where Trump has embraced bipartisanship without any specificity, Trump was explicit about what he wanted Wednesday. On camera, he'd pushed to raise the age at which an individual can purchase a rifle from 18 to 21 even after a weekend lunch with officials from the National Rifle Association, who have publicly opposed the change. Trump called to expand background checks and told the House's Majority Whip Steve Scalise that a concealed carry bill would never pass attached to legislation to incentivize states to enter data into the national background checks database.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/congress-reaction-trump-gun-meeting/index.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The NRA will haul him back.

It will be just like the DACA fail.

[spanone]

2. wayne's 'boys' will show up.

[blake2012]

3. Exactly

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Fuck Guns. Fuck Gunners.

[dchill]

5. "Democrats optimistic" - how gullible can they be?

[BannonsLiver]

11. Funny thing

What politicians say in public is often the opposite of what they’re saying among themselves.

[slumcamper]

14. RIGHT. Let's hope it's just the journalistic "take"...

[Cha]

15. It's all bullshite until something is actually done.

[spanone]

17. "Democrats walked away stunned and had some tepid optimism"

[dchill]

18. My optimism is pretty tepid these days, too.

[spanone]

19. got that right

[cilla4progress]

6. He has no idea what hes saying

Or it’s implications.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. That was, indeed, surreal.

As a side note, Marsha Blackburn proved once again, beyond any doubt, that she is DummberThanDumb.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. If this isn't proof of being unhinged (dementia)

I don't know what is.

Dementia is not a specific disease. It's an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities.

[HipChick]

9. Freepers are in meltdown...

I need a shower now...

[Cha]

10. Don't get too optimistic Dems.. this is trump

we're talking about.. the Lyingest thing on the Planet.

Yes I made up a new word for him.

[TeamPooka]

12. Congress has to pass bills before he can sign them. Ryan and McConnell will write up none of this.

[marylandblue]

13. Or maybe the only thing he actually understands is guns?

He might have learned something from all his mobster friends.

[Renew Deal]

16. Its all a game for Trump and in the end nothing will happen

He doesn’t want to be the bad guy. He knows congress will produce nothing. So he can promise anything and claim he did the best he can.

[BigmanPigman]

20. He changes his mind every 3 seconds...Remember DACA?!?!?

He is a bi-polar, schizophrenic moron.

[spanone]

22. it's exactly like that....he starts talking and just bullshits his way through

there's no plan in his head...only talking points...

[Kablooie]

21. Maybe he knows he's going down and is grabbing onto Democrats

In the hope that it will save him.

Let's see if he suddenly starts supporting more Dem ideas.