CNN’s Manu Raju: Trump ‘Is the One Who Got Rolled By Republicans in Congress’ on Omnibus
After threatening this morning to veto the omnibus spending bill that had passed through Congress this week, President Donald Trump begrudgingly signed the bill, all the while calling it “ridiculous” and claiming he’d never signing anything like this again.
Following Trump’s signing announcement, the hot takes came flowing in. And over on CNN, correspondent Manu Raju noted that while Trump had constantly hyped on the campaign trail that he could fix everything himself and that he was the smartest person around, in the end, he was the one taken for a ride in this whole process.
After political analyst David Gregory said that Trump tries to act like he’s both the victim and unaffected by the system in Washington, Raju weighed in what we witnessed today.
“He could have said I don’t like the direction this is going<” Raju stated. “Let’s pass a continuing resolution, keep the government open for another few weeks and negotiate a better bill, break it down. Not do a 2200-page bill.”
He continued, “It’s also interesting this is a president who essentially is conceding that the Congress has rolled him on this major legislative package. Coming in, he said he was smarter than everybody in Washington and that he alone could fix it and everybody here was stupid. Turns out that the president is the one who got rolled by Republicans in Congress. And Democrats too.”
John King would jump in to point out that Trump is now being mocked by a number of conservatives, name-checking Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
“The voices he listens to on Twitter are mocking him for being weak,” King concluded.
Watch the clip above, via CNN.
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