KLAMATH FALLS, OR— Conservatives to Trump: You caved! Art of the Fail.
Conservatives had a quick message for Trump after he announced a deal to end the government shutdown without funds for his border wall: You caved!
"Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States," tweeted conservative commentator Ann Coulter.
"Nancy Pelosi is alpha," tweeted conservative film maker Mike Cernovich.
And right wing commentator Michael Malice opined: "Apparently a wall isn't as good as a cave."
Conservative outlets, from the Drudge Report to Breitbart News, also blasted headlines in dramatic font declaring Trump caved with "NO WALL."
The response came like clockwork, only minutes after Trump announced the deal to reopen the government for three weeks with no guarantee of wall funds. It was unsurprising considering conservative figures including Coulter were some of the initial instigators who prodded Trump to shut down the government to get his wall.
After the White House revealed in December it could back off from Trump's demands for over $5 billion in border wall funding to avoid a shutdown, Coulter mocked the president on Twitter, leading to a feud in which Trump unfollowed one of his biggest campaign supporters.
"The chant wasn't 'SIGN A BILL WITH B.S. PROMISES ABOUT "BORDER SECURITY" AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, GUARANTEED TO FAIL!' It was "BUILD A WALL!" Coulter tweeted in December.
Trump's decision to completely cave to Democrats by agreeing to reopen the government without getting anything in return has made it significantly more likely that he's going to declare an emergency in a few weeks to try and build a border wall.
Though technically he only agreed to an extension of funding through Feb. 15th, it's highly unlikely that he's going to force another government shutdown. Last month, even though most people predicted it would end this way, the outcome of any shutdown fight was always theoretical. Now it's already been played out. He tried the shutdown gambit for over a month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not budge, and there's zero reason it would work next time.
What is going to happen in the coming weeks is that immigration hawks are going to pummel Trump for the biggest presidential cave since President George H.W. Bush broke his "no new taxes" pledge. This process has already started.
So when Feb. 15 comes, Trump is going to be in a bind. He'll be extremely embarrassed to have to cave yet again on a long-term deal without border wall funding. Agreeing to another short-term deal will just mean that every few weeks there will be another story about him caving into Pelosi on his signature domestic policy promise.
But if he declares a national emergency, he can portray it as a powerful action that shows he is willing to do everything he can to get a border wall. The issue will be tied up in courts, possibly even through the 2020 election, so he could always defer questions about the border wall by saying it's currently being decided in the courts. If the courts uphold his ability to build the wall, it will be seen as a big victory. If they shoot him down, he has somebody to point fingers to (though as previously described, it gets awkward if Justices Neil Gorsuch and/or Brett Kavanaugh rule against him).
To be sure, declaring an emergency would set a terrible precedent and, carries tremendous risks for conservatives, particularly those who care about limiting the power of the executive branch. But at this point, the political logic for Trump seems inescapable.
Patriotic or racist? Trump's Make America Great Again hats have become a hot-button issue
The baseball caps embroidered with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" are synonymous with Trump's administration, and have become a hot-button topic, especially in the wake of a racially charged confrontation last week near Washington's Lincoln Memorial.
Many, including actress and activist Alyssa Milano, now are calling the baseball caps the modern-day white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan, representing a white nationalist ideology pushed by the president.
The standoff involved a group of students from Covington Catholic School, an all-boys high school in Kentucky, who were wearing MAGA hats when they got into a confrontation with a Native American man from Michigan. The
Native American elder, Nathan Phillips of Ypsilanti, said he was trying to defuse the tension between the mostly white students and four members of the fringe religious group called the Black Hebrew Israelites, who hurled insults at the students.
"The caps that the young men were wearing, it is their right of course, to wear them, but when one says make America great again, what are you talking about?" he said. "When are you talking about, making America great again? What period are you referencing?
"Because in order to make America great again, one has to go backwards. You have to go back to a time period in which America as viewed through the prism of many people was not so great. Are you talking about a period in which Native Americans were beat down and tribes around this nation were demoralized and basically disrupted and destroyed?
The people who wear those hats, Anthony said, are suggesting – knowingly or unknowingly – that they support all of Trump's policies and his behaviors.
"Do you embrace division?" Anthony asked, adding in part, "... in order to wear that hat, you can’t just select a part of the man that hat has come to embody. You cannot compartmentalize yourself and say, 'I’m going to embrace the part of him that appears to be strong and tells people where to get off,' without embracing all the other hate and racism and division and derision, and the government shutdown that he proudly owns.
"When you wear that, you’re saying that’s what you support. So when I see that hat, that’s what I see. I see America at its worst, I do not see America at its best."
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