In late-night tweets, Trump changes course on coronavirus relief talks

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

In a pair of late-night tweets, President Donald Trump, changed course on negotiating coronavirus relief that he had earlier announced he was calling off until after the election.

"The House & Senate should IMMEDIATELY Approve 25 Billion Dollars for Airline Payroll Support, & 135 Billion Dollars for Paycheck Protection Program for Small Business. Both of these will be fully paid for with unused funds from the Cares Act. Have this money. I will sign now!" he posted shortly before 10 p.m.

"If I am sent a Stand Alone Bill for Stimulus Checks ($1,200), they will go out to our great people IMMEDIATELY. I am ready to sign right now. Are you listening Nancy?" he posted about 20 minutes later.

The late-night change came after a surprise announcement that he was calling off the talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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[Drum]

1. WTF

[Rule of Claw]

2. Headache Force Field Engage

[yaesu]

3. Took him a little longerto get his stock trades ready. nt

[KPN]

43. THIS ... and, no this isn't a conspiracy theory. Ther market has been insane for 4 years

now, responding wildly to everything and anything this turd says about markets or taxes. He knows exactly what he is doing. He's milking it for everything he can get in bis final days. That is all his mind understands --- $ signs.

[liberalmuse]

4. This may start to get really dark and crazy by morning.

I expect him to do this all night. He's flying on steroids. He may even have a psychotic episode (although how could we tell?).

[Thekaspervote]

7. This!

[liberalmuse]

8. Since Trump has been in office.

I've had this irrational fear of hearing a nuke go off in the middle of the night. He hates Seattle. The guy with the football is Covid pos. I hope he's feeling up to guarding that suitcase with his life.

[Dem2theMax]

16. Somewhere during the first year of his presidency,

I had a nightmare somewhat like that.

In the dream, I was sound asleep and my cell phone went off with an emergency alert. And in my dream, I looked at the phone, and the message on the phone said 'go turn on your TV.'

So I get up, go turn on the TV, and every station has the same thing on it. The bombs are headed towards the United States and we have 30 minutes. And in the dream I sat there trying to figure out what to do in that 30 minutes. I think all I came up with was calling people to say goodbye and tell them I loved them.

Thankfully, I woke up right after that. I was in full-blown panic mode, heart racing, blood pressure through the roof. Took most of the day to calm down.

I hadn't had a nightmare since I was in grade school. I'm in my sixties, and that was the first of many nightmares I've had since Trump started destroying the country.

[liberalmuse]

25. I had a similar dream a couple years ago.

In my dream, people were just waiting for the missiles to hit. It was so real and I also woke up in a sweat. I hadn’t had one of those dreams since I was younger. This really has been a nightmare come to life.

[Dem2theMax]

26. And the Republicans walk around without a care in the world,

oblivious to what is actually happening.

And the rest of us are sitting here wondering, will we ever get back to something resembling normal?

I honestly wake up some mornings and I don't want to get out of bed. This morning I got up, and then went and crawled right back in. Tried to sleep for a few more hours. So that was a few hours I didn't have to think about what was going on in Trumpworld.

I fell back to sleep and what did I dream about?
Dreamt that I was with a whole group of people. We obviously worked together. And we were all going to lunch. No masks, no social distancing, no pandemic.
It was a normal day. Guess I must be craving normal!

Here. We both need this.

[TDale313]

5. Did someone finally pull him aside and say

“Hey, stable genius, they’re offering you a chance to send every voter in the country a check. And to announce it right before the elections. TAKE IT!”

[underpants]

11. Exactly

As I’ve been commenting since this started (apparently Mitch decided he was done and talked him into this) Why are you ruining Christmas? Don’t you realize that you can SAVE CHRISTMAS?

This was a colossal screw up from his standpoint.

[LizBeth]

6. So he is saying approve a lot but not extra with UI. Just the 1200.

[AZ8theist]

9. THE FUCKING MORONIC IMBECILIC FUCKING IDIOT....

SAW WHAT HE DID TO THE STOCK MARKET WITH HIS STUPID TWEET.

So he was told to reverse course because, well, you know, he a FUCKING MORON!!!

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[brewens]

10. Thanks Donald! Thanks for blowing it by being an asshole first too! That takes away most of the

bump he might have gotten. Now everyone knows it's because your empty threat blew up on you!

[brush]

12. Somebody finally got thru to him during a lucid moment.

("What the fuck are you doing?&quot

Rejecting the relief bill was one of his stupider decisions. The idiot is under influence of the drugs and should have relinquished power to Pence.

It's too late for him though. He's still going to lose.

[amcgrath]

13. Polls showed that

74% of Americans wanted stimulus checks dealt with before SCOTUS

[Enterstageleft]

14. "Nancy" needs to tell him

"Hey dumb fuck, we sent a bill to your lackey in the senate 3 months ago. What? You haven't seen it? Why do you suppose that is?
Maybe because that ignorant asshole has been sitting on hundreds of bills we've passed, pissing on the American citizens the whole time.

Why don't you get on your telephone thingy & have McTurtle explain to you (really slooooowwweely) what we suggested months ago.

I really look forward to hearing from you. (If you can do it without running out of breath, or coughing)

The Honorable Speaker Pelosi

[C Moon]

15. Did someone nab his phone while he was asleep?

[LovingA2andMI]

17. WHAT.....

IS THIS? HE IS CRAZY!! GET HIM OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE. NOW!!!

Okay, done screaming now.

[PSPS]

18. Change course? The house has passed two bills already that moscow mitch threw away

Let's see what it wants now:

$25 billion for "Airline Payroll Support." - The last one of these they did was just spent on stock buybacks and executive bonuses. Employees were still fired.

$135 billion for "Paycheck Protection Program for Small Business." - The last time, most of this went to companies who had no need for it, probably big trump donors who laundered it back as "campaign contributions."

The only thing that will help is direct federal support paid directly to families so they don't have to go out and risk infection to survive. The original house bill that would address this was $4 trillion. Trump had a tantrum, had his lackey mnuchin propose a meaningless $1 trillion alternative (mostly going to those who don't need it, of course.) So the House "compromised" and reduced the bill to about $2.5 trillion. All for naught since moscow mitch refuses to pass it and trump has tantrums.

A couple of days ago, its tween said "get it done" followed by a 180-degree refusal, and now we're 180-degrees back with an "IMMEDIATE" demand to pass a ridiculously small amount targeting the wrong things. All of this while campaigning for re-election? Gee, I guess we'll all have to see more debates to decide for whom to vote!!!111!!!!1!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Tell tRump & Moscow's Mitch that the Senate needs to vote on those two bills FIRST.

Then the Democratic House will send him some more if he is still ready.

[erpowers]

19. Democrats Need to Hit Him on This

Joe Biden and the Democrats need to hit Donald Trump on this. This is not how a government should be run.

[BumRushDaShow]

33. The only thing he listens to is the stock market and the Dow dropped 600 points

after he blew up the negotiations. THAT is why the reversal.

And remember that this reversal literally just happened late in the night (ET) and it was lost in a stream of manic tweets.

Sadly, a large chunk of the population have no clue how the government works. It has been so obfuscated as "run by a bunch of bureaucrats who are purveyors of red tape" and "the 'deep state'" that people have been brainwashed to hate it and refuse to learn its role and functions, which used to be taught as "Civics".

[Bengus81]

39. Kamala Harris has a HUGE opportunity tonight

Cotton top Pence no doubt hoping she'd back out of the debate because of no plexiglass in between the two and he could get out of a ass kicking.


NOT A CHANCE Pence.

[C Moon]

20. "Mr. Trump?" "G-G-G-G-...Yeah?!" "Your lordship Putin is on the phone!"

[bringthePaine]

21. the trick is: it doesn't look good unless your head's up your ass

[Grokenstein]

22. Trumpkins: "ELEVENTY-DIMENSIONAL CHESS, WHUTEVER THAT IS LOL"

Americans: "Mad dog. Get the net."

[BigmanPigman]

23. Classic tRump.

How many times has he done this over the past 4 years? I am losing count. Fux Ruse will naturally spin this to make it seem like he never rejected any offers before now. Others will say "it is due to his Covid meds" which is BS. He wasn't on steroids for the past 4 years, he was on Adderall though.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Yup. Yesterday I was suggesting it was a ham-fisted negotiating tactic. Turns out it was. . . . nt

[BigmanPigman]

40. Rachel Maddow predicted it on her show

than, presto! Two hours later he did an about face, I guess he saw the news and realized he made a huge reelection miscalculation.

[Kablooie]

24. Actually this is pretty cool.

We get to see his psychotic episodes first hand. No spin. This is the one thing the don't lie about, seeing into the twisted head of Mr. Orange Empty Moneybags.

[Ponietz]

27. The degenerate 🤡 is negotiating with.....himself! on Twitter!

[DFW]

29. He probably spent half an hour shouting at himself in the mirror

He is definitely losing it at an ever faster pace.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Shart of the deal

[orangecrush]

42. THIS

[TeamPooka]

28. Someone slapped the shit out him to make him backtrack. Jared or Ivanka?

[louzke9]

30. OF COURSE.....

The stock market took an immediate NOSE DIVE following his previous announcement. Got to stop that!

[Cheezoholic]

31. He spent 3 days not in control, it's not drugs...

C'mom don't give him a crutch, this is who he is. In that time the CDC re-posted their affirmation of airborne spread, the FDA re-affirmed their stricter guidelines for vaccine approval. The latter especially, he tried to roll that back then got put in his place by the billionaire CEO's of big pharma, which he thinks he's giving a break, and had to retract. His internal fantasy of ultimate control was challenged. His response was "I'll show all of you, one tweet and I can swing the market". An act of a sad person who refuses to humble himself and be at peace with himself. He was told no you can't go home. He got told he can't go into the Oval. This is classic "narsciopath" behaviour. He and those that he suckered into this giant scam of scams will pay as history teaches us.

[Mr. Sparkle]

32. I bet it was the stock market tanking that made him do a u-turn.

[sinkingfeeling]

37. Buying votes again.

[cstanleytech]

38. Democrats need to make sure that he is not permitted to have his name on

said checks nor use it in any ad or coordinate, request or speculate to anyone how great it would be to anyone to do so.
To enforce it a poison pill of an increase in taxes on the 1% will be invoked of 40% should that occur or discover to have occurred.

[EarthFirst]

41. Fucking. Unhinged.

Completely deranged.

[The Mouth]

44. A straight $1200 per person stimulus- TAKE THE GODAMNED THING DEMOCRATS!

Yes, there's much more that needs to be done, but take what we can get NOW, dammit.

I'll help the pubbies put heads on pikes of anyone who doesn't support a straight-up, single -issue personal stimulus.