(Caricature of Trump is by DonkeyHotey.)Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a great negotiator. That is not even close to the truth. The truth is that his only "negotiating" tools are bullying, threatening, and attacking others. That has somewhat worked for him in his business life, and I think he thought he could use those same tactics in Washington to get what he wanted. He was wrong.
The truth is that the members of Congress don't work for him. They are supposed to be working for the American people. Trump has tried bullying and attacking Congress, and has gotten absolutely nothing done legislatively. And the craziest thing is that he has used the same bullying and attacking and threatening tactics against members of his own political party -- especially Republicans in the Senate (who rule that body with a razor-thin majority).
Trump still doesn't seem to understand that attacking his own party is not the way to a winning agenda (especially since Democrats are unified in opposing his odious agenda). So far, Trump has attacked 11 of the 52 GOP senators -- about 21%! Here (from CNN) is a list of the Republican senators that Trump has attacked:
* Bob Corker (Tennessee)
* Ted Cruz (Texas)
* Jeff Flake (Arizona)
* Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
* Dean Heller (Nevada)
* John McCain (Arizona)
* Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
* Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
* Rand Paul (Kentucky)
* Marco Rubio (Florida)
* Ben Sasse(Nebraska)
