When a company fails, who do you blame — its individual employees or the boss up top?
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Though some wish to pretend that President Donald Trump deserves either limited blame or no blame for the ginormous $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that he signed into law Friday, I call bullshit.
I remember Trump frequently touting his allegedly prodigious deal-making skills during the last presidential election: “It’s give-and-take,” he said in an interview with Business Insider five months after he announced his candidacy in 2015. “But it’s gotta be mostly take. Because you can’t give. You gotta mostly take.”
Yet the bill he signed into law “gave Democrats everything they wanted, including half a billion dollars to Planned Parenthood,” but failed to fully fund his proposed southern border wall. Trump took it, alright. He took it right in the ass.
If you think I’m being too rough on him, let me just give you a small taste of how some of his most fervent supporters reacted:
CONGRATULATIONS, PRESIDENT SCHUMER!
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 23, 2018
“ I will never sign another bill like this again”
Yeah, because you’ll be impeached.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 23, 2018
The Democrats gave you the rope, Mr. President, and you just hanged yourself with it. #ByeByeGOP2018 https://t.co/Hw5tgnAbc9
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 23, 2018
And it wasn’t just famous people either. Nearly every caller who dialed into conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh’s show Friday expressed an equal dose of disgust and outrage.
“We got snake-bit as far as I’m concerned. Anyway, I’m damn mad — as a conservative, I’m damn mad — and I don’t have to take it anymore. I think the man has lost principle totally, and I just will not vote for him again and I’ll be looking for somebody else to be our Republican president in the next election,” said William from Ogden, Utah.
“Listen, I’m so fed up with this whole government stuff now. They’ve just rolled our president, the one that I voted for. I live in California and I voted for Donald Trump. I’ll never do it again,” added Pat from California.
Limbaugh tried to quell their anger by claiming “(t)his is exactly what the establishment in Washington in the Congress — this is exactly the reaction they want. They want you blaming Trump for this. They want you thinking Trump has failed.”
“They want you thinking Trump has been compromised. They want you thinking Trump has been eaten up and swallowed by the swamp. They want you think Trump has sold you out.”
As caller Dan from Michigan rightly pointed out, however, “He did [fail].”
Limbaugh further tried arguing that the omnibus was “no different than how any other budget legislation would get done with any other Republican president in Washington.”
“This is exactly how it happens with any Republican in there. This isn’t game changing,” he said.
That’s the point, Mr. Limbaugh. Trump won the election in part because of his promise to be a genuine maverick. But the Trump we saw Friday evening, Friday afternoon, last September, last May and countless other times isn’t a maverick. He’s a soft, weak-kneed, bleeding-heart chump, and yeah, I said it!
Have I personally given up on him yet? Of course not. But I have definitely chosen to stop excusing his bullshit.
Look, folks, you can’t act like Trump is some topnotch, Godfather-like bossman, and then turn around and whine that he’s failing because Republicans aren’t supporting him enough and blah, blah, blah.
He’s the damn president and commander in chief, and if he wants to win reelection in 2020, he better man up and start acting like it!
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