President Donald Trump seems to have scored a significant political win with the announcement Thursday that he will sign Congress’s deal on border security — while at the same time declaring a national emergency to build the portion of the “wall” that the deal would not fund.
But in theory, an agreement should be possible, because the changes the Trump administration seeks at the border are not radical, and because Democrats have agreed in the past to similar physical barriers to what Trump is proposing.
Though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did not spike the football on Friday after President Donald Trump agreed to re-open the government on her terms, Resistance activists gloated, mocking Trump for the “art of the cave” and declaring that Pelosi “dog walked” Trump.
Actor Jim Carrey tweeted his latest piece of politically charged paintings on Tuesday, this time of President Donald Trump preparing to eat an immigrant child.
President Donald Trump stunned the G-7 on Saturday in Canada with his call for a complete end to all tariffs — and non-tariff barriers to trade, like government subsidies.
President Donald Trump showed Thursday that sometimes the “art of the deal” is walking away from negotiations, as he suddenly canceled a highly anticipated June summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
It will be remembered as a moment that defined his presidency: Donald Trump, flanked by leading Democrats, and joined by members of both parties, led a roundtable discussion Tuesday about how to resolve the problems created by the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and illegal immigration in general.
Trump enters future negotiations with more leverage over the “spoilers” in the GOP, and with Democrat leaders having declared that he is a reasonable person who can be dealt with, not a crazy dictator who must be removed.
By showing he can deal with Pelosi and Schumer, Trump may have found the one way of making Republicans unite.
Whatever caused Tuesday evening’s DACA tweet — perhaps a loss of nerve in a Bannon-less West Wing — it was an error from which Trump must extricate himself, and soon.
The real question is how “presidential” conduct is to be measured. Trump may flout social conventions, but never flouts the Constitution.
Eccentric basketball star Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea for his latest visit on Tuesday, and promptly captured the rapt attention of American media by presenting dictator Kim Jong-un with a copy of Donald Trump’s 1987 book “The Art of the Deal.”
There is only one way to change Congress’s incentives, and that is to change the default option — to make sure Obamacare is repealed, whether or not Congress comes up with a plan to replace it.
President Donald Trump will renegotiate NAFTA rather than terminate it, after a day of chaos sent top business interests and members of congress scrambling.
The Beltway consensus is that President Donald Trump lost so badly by pulling the American Health Care Act last Friday that he has permanently crippled his presidency. He may not achieve anything in his first 100 days (as if he hasn’t already); he may not even last a full term.
Exactly two weeks ago, this author predicted the defeat of the American Health Care Act — and explained that it was a step towards the final, actual deal that will repeal and replace Obamacare.
President Trump has used the struggles of the American Health Care Act to improve his leverage to prepare a better Obamacare replacement.
Iran is adopting Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal strategy by scrambling to sign Western energy deals as bargaining chips before confronting the President-elect, who once called the Iran nuclear deal “one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history.”
Donald Trump is using his Art of the Deal to attack Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street fundraising spigot by promising to reinstate the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that her husband, President Bill Clinton, repealed in the waning days of his Administration.
Jennifer Lawrence has never met Donald Trump, but the actress did reveal what she planned to say to him if they ever do meet.
Donald Trump said Sunday that his “floor” economic concern as President would be negotiating a sizable middle class tax cut, “because they have been absolutely shunned.”
