Rachel Maddow calmly and coolly decimated Trump by using his own behavior to show how an unstable man is winging economic policy.
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#Maddow uses facts and calmly shows how Trump's instability is wrecking the economy through winging economic policy. https://t.co/JYU93PItBO pic.twitter.com/tILKX8xx3I
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Maddow said, “And just to put the icing on the cake and just to explain that weird tape we showed, it turns out there were actually no prepared remarks for the president to give at that meeting. So on Thursday he’s apparently been mad and steaming all night and wants to announce something. He’s sitting there at this meeting. He announces a huge economic policy that has big implications for regular Americans and jobs and relationships with allies, apparently, it’s national security and the controversial thing and the president apparently just winged it. No prep, no policy, no notes, nothing written for him. And it seems not impossible that he had no numbers in mind for this policy until he declared the event over and a reporter shouted out, hey, sir, what are the numbers? And he, you know, looks off into the distance and grasps those two nice round numbers. He had 25% for steel, 10 for aluminum. It’s almost like he was saying, does that sound good? Is that good? The president said at that Bonker’s announcement as reporters are urged out, he said it’s being written, this thing that he had just announced with no notes, no policy, no legal review, no communications plan, nothing. There is no signs this is being written.”
Maddow destroyed Trump with facts
Rachel Maddow laid out the facts. Trump is winging economic policy with nothing written down. Maddow highlighted Trump’s mental instability without exaggeration or hyperbole. She used his own behavior as proof that the unstable president is making up policy and pulling numbers out of the sky. Trump isn’t preparing. Trump isn’t investing in policies. The president is making it up as he goes along. Maddow has Trump dead to rights, and her insight is blistering.
This is an administration with no plan, and Rachel Maddow is showing how Trump is derailing the country.
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