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 whe
ther 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 course, 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 whe
ther
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 Nor
thern 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 o
thers 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 o
ther 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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