A week ago,
President Trump stood
before Congress
as an improbable unifier. [im 사실같지 않은]
“Tonight,”
he declared,
“I call upon
all of us
to set aside our differences,
to seek out common ground
and to summon the unity [su 소환, 호출]
we need to deliver
for the people.”
This week,
Mr. Trump is back
to being a disrupter. [di 분열자]
After accusing Democrats
of being un-American and even treasonous [tr 반역적인]
for refusing to applaud
during his State of the Union speech,
he said on Tuesday
that he would welcome
a government shutdown
if he cannot reach
a spending deal with Congress
that tightens immigration laws.
A week ago,
Mr. Trump called
for a grand compromise
with Democrats
on the legal status
of the undocumented immigrants
known as Dreamers — a deal,
he said,
“where nobody gets everything
they want,
but where our country gets
the critical reforms
it needs.”
After all,
the president added,
“Americans are dreamers too.”
On Tuesday, his chief
of staff, John F. Kelly, said that many Dreamers failed to register for protected status with the government because they were “were too afraid to sign up” or were “too lazy to get
off their asses.” He said he doubted Mr. Trump would extend the March 5 deadline that shields them from deportation.
Mr. Trump’s threat
of a shutdown seemed to have little effect on the delicate negotiations on Capitol Hill to raise spending caps on military and nonmilitary spending — an agreement that, if passed by both houses
of Congress, would pave the way for long-term deal to fund the government.
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It was also not clear whether Mr. Kelly’s charged language about the Dreamers would affect the charged negotiations on immigration that will soon consume Congress, though it was the latest evidence that Mr. Kelly, a retired Marine general once viewed as a curb on Mr. Trump, shares some
of his most hard-edge views.
Head-spinning reversals,
of c
ourse, are nothing new for Mr. Trump. His positions on issues can gyrate more wildly than the Dow Jones industrial average. His is a presidency that has made the extraordinary ordinary.
After these latest remarks, the White House swung into its customary role
of cleanup. The deputy press secretary, Hogan Gidley, played down Mr. Trump’s charges
of Democratic treason as “tongue-in-cheek,” while the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, muddied the waters on whether the president really planned to shut down the government.
Mr. Trump’s casual embrace
of a shutdown — after the last brief shutdown, which he portrayed as a Democratic betrayal
of America’s troops — drew an impassioned response from Representative Barbara Comstock, a Republican who represents a moderate district in Northern Virginia, an area that is home to many federal workers.
“We don’t need a government shutdown on this,” she said, imploring Mr. Trump. “Both sides have learned that a government shutdown was bad. It wasn’t good for them.”
For others in Washington, however, there was a creeping sense
of numbness. Mr. Trump has said so many outrageous things, has broken so many taboos and has insulted so many people that his latest outbursts no longer shock. To some, they seem more
of the same.
Photo
President Trump’s chief
of staff, John F. Kelly, last week at the White House. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times
It fell to Senator Jeff Flake, the lame-duck Arizona Republican who has emerged as a prime nemesis
of Mr. Trump, to point out the novelty
of an American president branding members
of the other party as traitors because they did not celebrate him.
“Have we arrived at such a place
of numb acceptance that we have nothing to say when a president
of the United States casually suggests that those who choose not to stand or applaud his speech are guilty
of treason?” he said from the floor the Senate. “I certainly hope not.”
Mr. Flake noted that “the president’s most ardent defenders use the now-weary argument that the president’s comments were meant as a joke, just sarcasm, only tongue in cheek.”
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“Treason,” he thundered, “is not a punch-line, Mr. President.”
Part
of the problem is that Mr. Trump’s most inflammatory comments do sometimes appear tossed-
off. His claim that Democrats were guilty
of treason came during a rambling speech at a factory near Cincinnati, where his celebration
of the recent tax cut gave way to a litany
of complaints about the stone-faced Democratic reception
of his speech.
“Can we call that treason?” Mr. Trump mused. “Why not? I mean they certainly didn’t seem to love
our country very much.”
The president embraced the idea
of a shutdown during a White House meeting meant to dramatize the dangers
of the gang MS-13. After listening to Representative Michael McCaul, Republican
of Texas and the chairman
of the House Homeland Security Committee, talk about how loopholes in the immigration laws allow violent criminals to get into the United States, Mr. Trump suddenly upped the ante with Democrats.
“If we don’t change it, let’s have a shutdown,” he declared. “We’ll do a shutdown. And it’s worth it for
our country. I’d love to see a shutdown if we don’t get this stuff taken care
of.”
Later, Ms. Sanders noted that the president did not view the spending bill and immigration as “mutually exclusive,” meaning that he would not necessarily precipitate a shutdown if Congress agreed on spending without meeting his demands on immigration.
At the same time, she questioned the patriotism
of Democrats who sat on their hands during Mr. Trump’s discussion
of the thriving American economy. “Democrats are going to have to make a decision at some point really soon,” Ms. Sanders said. “Do they hate this president more than they love this country? And I hope the answer to that is, ‘No.’”
For many in Washington, the best defense against Mr. Trump is to treat him as less than serious. On Monday, he went after the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam B. Schiff
of California — or, as Mr. Trump nicknamed him, “Little Adam Schiff” — for being, he said, a liar who illegally leaked confidential information.
Mr. Schiff has drafted a Democratic rebuttal to the classified House Republican report that raised questions about the conduct
of the F.B.I. in investigating links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“Must be stopped!” Mr. Trump said on Twitter
of the congressman.
Mr. Schiff, taking a page from Senator Bob Corker, Republican
of Tennessee, when Mr. Trump subjected him to ridicule on Twitter a few months ago, replied with the tone
of a weary parent, coping with an unruly toddler.
“Mr. President,” he wrote, “I see you’ve had a busy morning
of ‘Executive Time.’ Instead
of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned
off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or...really anything else.”
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