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“We don't have a lot of closers in politics, and I understand why: It's a very rough system. It's an archaic system.” (archaic - a new word he learned and used many times last week)
“You look at the rules of the Senate, even the rules of the House — but the rules of the Senate and some of the things you have to go through — it's really a bad thing for the country, in my opinion. They're archaic rules. And maybe at some point we're going to have to take those rules on, because, for the good of the nation, things are going to have to be different.”
“You can't go through a process like this. It's not fair. It forces you to make bad decisions. I mean, you're really forced into doing things that you would normally not do except for these archaic rules.”
And then Trump came out and just said it: He doesn't like the filibuster.
“I think, you know, the filibuster concept is not a good concept to start off with,” he said.
So there you go. Trump is frustrated with the pace of legislation after 100 days, and his answer is that he wants to change the rules.
I just read a column that said Trump's biggest accomplishment in his first 100 days was coming to the realization that he was in over his head. It only took him 100 days to realize what many of us knew on November 8th.
Germany’sforeign minister has accused Donald Trump and his relatives of behaving like members of a “royal family”.... “There are things that are strange to me, for example the visit of his daughter to Germany which was treated almost like a world event,” Mr Gabriel said on Saturday.
“This mix of politics with family and business smacks of nepotism and would be unimaginable here.”
“It always bothers me when members of a family, who have never been elected, show up suddenly as official state representatives and are treated almost as if they were members of a royal family,” he said.
“We don't have a lot of closers in politics, and I understand why: It's a very rough system. It's an archaic system.” (archaic - a new word he learned and used many times last week)
“You look at the rules of the Senate, even the rules of the House — but the rules of the Senate and some of the things you have to go through — it's really a bad thing for the country, in my opinion. They're archaic rules. And maybe at some point we're going to have to take those rules on, because, for the good of the nation, things are going to have to be different.”
“You can't go through a process like this. It's not fair. It forces you to make bad decisions. I mean, you're really forced into doing things that you would normally not do except for these archaic rules.”
And then Trump came out and just said it: He doesn't like the filibuster.
“I think, you know, the filibuster concept is not a good concept to start off with,” he said.
So there you go. Trump is frustrated with the pace of legislation after 100 days, and his answer is that he wants to change the rules.
Germany’sforeign minister has accused Donald Trump and his relatives of behaving like members of a “royal family”.... “There are things that are strange to me, for example the visit of his daughter to Germany which was treated almost like a world event,” Mr Gabriel said on Saturday.
“This mix of politics with family and business smacks of nepotism and would be unimaginable here.”
“It always bothers me when members of a family, who have never been elected, show up suddenly as official state representatives and are treated almost as if they were members of a royal family,” he said.
It is damn weird the way he put his son-in-law in charge of everything and Ivanka is out doing her breathy best to put a non-crazy cover on all this.
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