Cant decide if hes perfect or being sabotaged
BY TINA NGUYEN
AUGUST 25, 2017 10:14 AM
Nearly every morning, Donald Trump begins his day with a very public pump-up session. Half the time he rants on Twitter about all the people who are undermining his presidency (Democrats, the media) and sabotaging his agenda (Jeff Flake, Mitch McConnell). The other half of the time he’s raving about himself: his legislative accomplishments, his efforts to boost the military and fight ISIS, the soaring stock market, and so on. It’s a tricky balancing act for a president whose ego and victimhood are always in tension.
Trump’s vexation was on full display Friday morning, as he published his first tweet of the day, at 6:33 a.m., blaming Democrats for obstructing his agenda, Republicans for not eliminating the filibuster, and Congress as a whole for the fact that “few bills” are being passed ...
Eleven minutes later, he tweeted that few, if any, presidents had ever accomplished so much or signed as many bills as he has “in just 7 months” ...
...he bears more responsibility for the gridlock in Congress than he admits. The White House, which normally sets and leads the party’s legislative agenda, has mostly abdicated that role in the Trump era, sniping from the sidelines during the failed health-care debate rather than pushing forward a plan of its own. Trump looks set for a repeat performance on tax reform, too ... the president is asking the House Ways and Means Committee to write the bill on its own, allowing Trump space to either take credit for its success or distance himself, depending on the outcome. (“We need the Ways and Means Committee to own it,” one top official said.) Health care is on the back burner once again, and plans for an infrastructure bill—originally one of the president’s top agenda items—have been punted into the distant future.
The rest of the fall legislative calendar is likely to be consumed by a battle over a government spending bill that could result in a shutdown, or a debt-ceiling crisis, if Congress and the president can’t agree ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/donald-trump-tweets-congress-debt-ceiling
