Ted Gup claims that President Trump is abdicating his responsibilities:
In recent weeks, nearly all the talk in Washington centered around impeachment — would they or wouldn’t they? Now the nation faces a new worry — abdication. That’s right, the President who imagines himself a king, and expects others to treat him the same way, has declared that he will have nothing to do with Congress on infrastructure legislation — perhaps the one area where he could have won bipartisan support — so long as the Dems insist on holding him accountable. In effect, Donald Trump has announced that he has abdicated, having no longer any wish to serve. [CNN]
But I think he’s building up Trump too much, because he’s not the one with the purse strings. Congress controls the purse, and if Congress, in its two chambers, as led by Pelosi and McConnell, decide to – in this case – positively attack the infrastructure problem, they can do so – and if they have to override Trump’s veto, they can do that, too. All it takes is the realization that Trump is no political leader, and that the GOP has a governance responsibility.
Trump may look like a King to Gup. but to me he’s no more than a demented old man overwhelmed by his responsibilities.
