{"id":624,"date":"2017-10-21T21:11:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2017-10-21T21:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T21:11:14","slug":"donald-trump-tests-the-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/21\/donald-trump-tests-the-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Tests The Waters&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Donald Trump tests the waters for his \u201cdeclare victory and resign\u201d strategy <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>reported by:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmerreport.com\/author\/billpalmer\/\">Bill Palmer<\/a> Updated: 11:06 pm EDT Fri Oct 13, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Donald Trump finally began testing the waters on Friday night. There are those who have long insisted that \u201cTrump is too [insert any adjective] to ever resign.\u201d Then there those who know him better, such as his own former ghostwriter, who all believe Trump will resign if he believes he\u2019s going to be ousted anyway. Trump\u2019s own lifelong pattern has been to face defeat by declaring victory and walking away, as evidenced by his six bankruptcies. Now Trump is at least sticking his toe into those waters.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>It\u2019s important to understand the context of what Trump was facing when he sat down for his Friday night Twitter marathon. He\u2019d just taken reckless unilateral action aimed at destroying two of President Obama\u2019s most celebrated accomplishments, Obamacare and the Iran deal. It felt a lot like a desperate criminal trying to torch the place before fleeing. Then on Friday afternoon we learned that Reince Priebus and Paul Manafort may both end up flipping on him in the Russia scandal. That explained why Trump seemed to think his presidency is about to die. Then Twitter happened.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>All his other semi-coherent Friday night tweets aside, one stood out in particular. Trump tweeted \u201cSuch a wonderful statement from the great Lou Dobbs: \u2018We take up what may be the most accomplished presidency in modern American history.&#8217;\u201d Dobbs is one of Trump\u2019s few remaining apologists in the media, and he\u2019s a fellow racist, so it\u2019s not shocking that he would consider Trump\u2019s utterly failed presidency to be a success. What\u2019s notable is that Trump is now looking to push the sentiment that he did indeed succeed on the whole.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Yes, it\u2019s fairly subtle. But when you look at the overall context of a day in which Donald Trump probably figured out that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is going to be able to take him down after all, and then he began trying to complete his own warped political priorities as fast as possible, it stands out that Trump is now indeed trying to declare victory on his presidency. He\u2019s testing the waters for a \u201cdeclare victory and resign\u201d strategy that was always going to be his endgame.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump tests the waters for his \u201cdeclare victory and resign\u201d strategy reported by:\u00a0 Bill Palmer Updated: 11:06 pm EDT Fri Oct 13, 2017 &nbsp; Donald Trump finally began testing the waters on Friday night. 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