The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website November 29, 2017:
President Donald Trump went to Missouri on Wednesday ostensibly to use his bully pulpit to gin up public support for a Republican tax plan, but he turned the event into a wildly vacillating campaign-style rally.
Trump did talk taxes, urging Senate Republicans to seize a “moment of truth” later this week when they are expected to vote on an overhaul bill.”
But the president chose to intertwine with his prepared remarks something that resembled a stream-of-consciousness rant that Trump more often employs not while giving policy-themed remarks from a TelePrompter but during the freewheeling campaign rallies that helped catapult him to the White House. Continue reading “Analysis: Trump Opts for Campaign Rally Over Tax Bill Hard Sell”