Axios - President Trump is building a reputation as the flip-flopper in chief — the president who, after announcing a bold new policy today, might well reverse it tomorrow, Axios' Felix Salmon and Zachary Basu write. In a chaotic world, the federal government normally acts as a stabilizing force. Under Trump, it's driving chaos.
Across-the-board tariffs on Mexico and Canada — two of America's three largest trading partners — have been on and then off, then on and then off. Colombia knows the feeling.
- The government put 80 million square feet of its real estate up for sale, only to then take the "for sale" sign down.
- Trump has fired federal employees at the CDC, the FDA, the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Agriculture Department, only to then re-hire them.
- He touted the use of military aircraft to carry out high-profile deportations, only to suspend the flights after finding them costly and inefficient.
In a matter of days, Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, then made up and invited him to Washington — then chastised him in the Oval Office, then expressed openness to rebuilding ties, then cut off arms and intelligence sharing.
Republicans in Congress have repeatedly found themselves boxed in by Trump's flip-flops.
- He spent weeks equivocating on whether Congress should pass his agenda in one bill or two — then blindsided the Senate by backing House Republicans' one-bill approach.
- He promised not to cut Medicaid, then backed a House GOP budget plan that could force exactly that in order to meet its proposed spending cuts.
- He has vowed to achieve the unthinkable by balancing the budget — while endorsing trillions of dollars in tax cuts, plus new campaign promises for no tax on tips or overtime.
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I really hope the Europeans reveal what they know about the criminal Don. And his pnolitidcs are mostly about killing people, tanking the economy and committing treason
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