Not Much Winning For Trump: Setbacks On Trade, North Korea, Immigration

US President Donald Trump speaks to military members via teleconference from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida on November 22, 2018. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGA... US President Donald Trump speaks to military members via teleconference from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida on November 22, 2018. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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As President Donald Trump constructs his campaign infrastructure on messages of historic progress and constant “winning,” he’s struggling to bat back a series of well-publicized failures on trade, immigration and North Korea denuclearization.

According to the Washington Post, his image as a crusading and effective outsider has sustained blows recently as the trade deficit balloons to historic highs, illegal border crossings skyrocket despite Trump’s hard line and North Korea brazenly shores up their nuclear weaponry.

Trump has been consistently shifting the blame to others in his orbit, but reportedly frets about his own personal approval rates.

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  1. So long as Trump TV™️ ignores his failures or touts them as successes, Don the Con’s deplorable base will keep calling all bad news “fake”.

    This is how official state TV operates.

  2. So much not much winning!

  3. illegal border crossings skyrocket despite Trump’s hard line

    It would be more accurate to note that there are more illegal border crossings because Trumpanzee policy is making it impossible to cross the border legally.

  4. But but but, Ms. Sarah TOLD us that they had been working on WINNING and not so much on process the last two years…and NOW you’re telling me there WAS no winning??? I am SO confused!

  5. So much we’re tired of it.

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