President Trump’s record has been a cornucopia of climbdowns.
**The White House had demanded $150 billion in cuts as part of current budget talks. But on Monday evening, Trump agreed to a deal that raised spending by $320 billion.
**A few weeks ago, Trump declared that he was “moving forward” with efforts to put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census questionnaire despite a contrary Supreme Court ruling. But he then announced with fanfare that he would not, in fact, move forward. Was he backing down? “No, no,” he said. “Not only didn’t I back down, I backed up.”
**In May, Trump announced that he would “shortly” impose 25 percent tariffs on $325 billion of imported Chinese goods. But in late June, Trump announced he would not actually be imposing the tariffs.
**After pronouncing that there is “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea” and assuring that Kim Jong Un is “denuking the whole place,” the Trump administration is reportedly prepared to let North Korea keep nuclear weapons.
**After being “cocked and loaded” for an attack on Iran following the downing of a U.S. drone, the president called off his own attack after he “thought about it for a second.”
**After announcing last year that he would “end the dishonest double-dealing” that allows insurance middlemen to “pocket rebates” from drugmakers, his administration just withdrew the proposal, a cornerstone of its plan to reduce prescription prices.
**And of course, there was that massive cave to Nancy Pelosi to end the government shutdown he started without getting a single thing he had been demanding.
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His next book should be The Art of the Cave. Clearly, he is an expert in the subject.