President Donald Trump tried a new strategy to get his border wall by going around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Politico reported. He failed spectacularly.
On Tuesday, Trump invited moderate House Democrats to join him at the White House for lunch to talk about his wall and the shutdown. He used a similar strategy when Paul Ryan controlled the House, going around the speaker to negotiate with the far-right Freedom Caucus. But unlike Republicans, no Democrats attended the lunch meeting, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
The embarrassing episode shows two things: Democrats are united on shutdown politics and the president is underestimating Pelosi’s hold on her caucus.
“Is anybody surprised that the president is trying to get votes wherever he can get votes?” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) asked reporters this morning, laughing as he said it. “We are totally united, totally.”
Trump is trying to negotiate with someone other than Pelosi. That’s not how the Democratic caucus operates.
The flurry of White House invitations sent out on Tuesday afternoon and evening confused the House Democrats who received them. There seemed to be no real strategy on the part of the White House as to who was being invited, other than to try to make it seem like they were winning over moderate Democrats.
They probably just didn't feel like having mcdonalds for lunch
Bentley Gomez
Pelosi has shown that she is unwilling to negotiate. She hates President Trump more than she loves the country she is supposed to represent.
Brandon Reyes
I really need the trumptards to explain this spectacular and epic failure.
Carter Myers
It's okay to ask for help, we can tell you are a little slow.
Ian Hill
Personally, I think Trump's just milking this bastard for all it's worth . . . I get the sense they've really pissed him off, and the take-down (if it ever gets here) is going to leave a mark across the board.
Gavin Reyes
Translation: "I don't want my wife and kids to be used in the next satanic ritual. Please, I did what you said!"
The jewish Muppet show is so boring and predictable. I wish Kermit would just declare martial law, address the audience about the dangers of letting Miss Piggy's followers left unchecked and 24 hours later there would be none of them standing, and we could finally put that mass murdering pig to death.
Landon Parker
Nancy do not give a damn about Americans. The Democrats just wanted the border to be gone to become a part of the global government.
Jason Jones
He offered them a chance to leap onto the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. No smart person would take that deal.
Jack King
Maybe the Republicans will back down, but that's mostly because their party tends to give its members a lot more leeway to make up their own minds which makes them less effective in standoffs like this. However, the fact that they've never received any credit for backing down in the past (while it gets them mocked as cowardly traitors by their base, and sometimes primaried) has got to sting.
Robert Hernandez
eat a corn filled shit hymie
Zachary Morris
Not at all. They get loyalty pets from their friends in isreal.
Aaron Stewart
This guy would know.
Nathan Thomas
is that why the senate passed a bill 100 - 0 and trump refused?
Isaiah Turner
I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the HOUSE. Dipshit.
Adrian Murphy
i'd hate to break the news to you but that was a bill that passed HOUSE and senate dipshit
Trump is such a massive embarrassment, holy shit. Why even bother? What is the point? This is the upteenth time he's gone crawling to the Dems and they've fucked him raw. What a joke. lol
Jayden Howard
Unless he is simply jerking them around to keep the government shut down. Section apes BTFO!
Christopher Bailey
Is this what you wanted? Because this is what you got.
Carter Hernandez
Trump wants to negotiate, Pelosi wants to destroy the country.
