As a president with a penchant for premature police announcements, President Donald Trump has recently declared he plans to give middle-class families a 10 percent tax cut “in the next week,” leaving aides scrambling to explain and create a semblance of policy that previously only existed in Trump’s mind, according to The Washington Post.
One possible solution that aides are discussing is the creation of a nonbinding resolution that could serve as a promise to voters that if Republicans are able to hold their majorities in Congress, lawmakers may be able to cobble together a 10 percent tax cut for the middle class sometime in the future.
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has agreed to serve as a liaison between Congress, the White House and the Treasury Department to firm up a plan in “coming weeks,” a far-cry from Trump’s promised tax relief arriving before the election.
But this is how Washington has grown accustomed to operating under Trump, according to the Post. The President sometimes prefers to publicly report his plans before said-plans exist when he feels his aides aren’t taking his agenda seriously enough.
“He thinks, ‘Hey, if I say it on Twitter, then these guys will have to follow,’” a former White House official told the Post.
Calling this bald-faced election tactic a “policy announcement” is … a little too credulous.
@nicole_lafond
OK, they phoned the Mooch, that doesn’t count…
Ugh, I put on CNN this morning and they announced that The Mooch would be on to discuss The Caravan. Turned it right off and washed some painting show on PBS instead.
Oh. So he’s not, in fact, unmoored from reality, living in a dream world where he can promise things that are literally impossible in the world of objective reality he seems to show little interest in or regard for. OK. Very, uh, reassuring.
it’s very simple, he’s lying.