When Trump met at the White House with both Republicans and Democrats a few days ago, he urged them to negotiate a compromise on DACA. He told them he would sign whatever compromise they brought him. He LIED.
Just a couple of days later, several senators brought him a negotiated agreement that they thought could pass the Senate. Trump killed it. He didn't like it because it didn't give him the money for a wall on the southern border, and because it protected some immigrants from non-white countries (which he called "shithole" countries).
Now he has told the press that DACA is probably dead because Democrats don't want it, and aren't willing to negotiate a compromise. That's nonsense. For Trump, a compromise means they should knuckle under and submit to what he wants (agree to his bigoted and racist desires).
I guess he thinks the public will forget that it was him (not Democrats) that killed the DACA program with an executive order -- and it was him (not congressional Dems and GOP) that refused to accept a negotiated compromise.
Well, the public is not that stupid. They know who cares about the Dreamers, and who doesn't. Note in the chart above that 70% of the public says Trump does not care about the Dreamers (and 68% say the same of his GOP cohorts in Congress). And they believe the opposite of Democrats -- with 60% saying those congressional Democrats do care about the needs of Dreamers.
Trump can try to blame the Democrats for his own failures, but the public is not buying it.
The chart above uses information from a new Economist / YouGov Poll -- done on January 8th and 9th of a random national sample of 1,500 adults, with a margin of error of 3.3 points.
