Makes them all look good
Ah. Smart move.
On the recent non-binding vote (420-0) in Congress about releasing the Mueller Report, I told leadership to let all Republicans vote for transparency. Makes us all look good and doesn’t matter. Play along with the game!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2019
Makes us look good! Especially when we announce that’s what we’re doing! Appearances are EVERYTHING.
Of course, the tweet assumes he has the right to tell Congressional Republicans what to do, which he actually doesn’t. He can suggest, he can advise, he can ask, but permission is not his to give. Members of Congress are supposed to operate independent of the president, and ideally should be able to operate independent of the party, but Republicans rarely do that. The Democrats have a lot harder time keeping their members on party line, though the members usually vote with the party (it’s just on certain issues, like abortion and gun control, that we see a significant number of Democrats and only a tiny number of Republicans break with the party).
Trump is not god, he is not king, I hesitate to even think he is man. Toddler, child-in-chief, juvenile, any of these, but not man. Boy. And having a child telling the adults what to do rarely ends well (that is, assuming the Republicans in Congress are adults; most of them seem pretty teenage boy in their actions and rhetoric much of the time).
What the…?
If Trump were actually good at doing things that kept up the false façades he wanted to project, he wouldn’t write tweets explaining how they were false façades. The contents of that tweet disprove the very point that the tweet is trying to make.
Either Trump is a complete fucking idiot, or he’s trying to be one move ahead of me and his actual goal is to make me *think* he’s a complete fucking idiot – which makes him a complete fucking idiot. Or he’s at least two steps ahead of me – which is a hard sell given how much he struggles to put words together.
Karellen, stop trying to play 3D chess against a 1D mind – that way madness lies.
I think he’s a trans adult, but doesn’t pass very well. Trans genius, trans businessman; he’s not a whole lot of things he claims to be. Also, though he may Identify as President, he is not really very Presidential.
NOBODY could be that good an actor. The man can’t even code switch out of Twaddle. He doesn’t have the theory of mind that’s hardwired into every dog.
This is a genius move on par with firing Comey then admitting on tv the next day that it was to blunt the FBI’s investigations into him.