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mnottertail -> RE: Trump’s White House Charm Offensive (1/26/2017 6:08:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
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“He’s taking every ... opportunity to forge strong bonds with congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Monday.
On Tuesday morning, the president used the stately Roosevelt Room to host U.S. auto industry executives — just a day earlier, he had done the same with other private-sector honchos.
As the meeting got started, the president, whom House Speaker Paul D. Ryan says wants to push “an ambitious agenda,” employed chivalry and humor.
As his high-powered breakfast guests took their seats, Trump played the role of gentleman, holding General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s chair.
“Let me help you with that,” said the victorious presidential candidate, whose campaign trail comments and a leaked “Access Hollywood” video caused millions of women around the globe to protest last Saturday.
Then came more humor that got a big laugh from the car executives, when the president suggested they go around the table for introductions: “I’ll start. I’m Donald Trump.”
Over the last eight years, Obama and his aides hosted private-sector officials and stakeholders from the nonprofit world regularly. But the 44th president was often criticized for not socializing more with lawmakers, though his top aides near the end essentially argued a president should not have to — and expressed their belief that Republicans poisoned the relationship from the start.
George Mason University public policy professor James Pfiffner wrote in his book “The Modern Presidency” that “presidents are … well-advised to ‘court’ Congress, that is, build up a reservoir of goodwill that can be called upon when it is needed in a close vote.”
Former presidents have invited members to the executive mansion for dinner, cocktail hours, movie-viewing in its theater — Harry Truman even hosted poker games, Pfiffner noted. “These were not occasions for arm-twisting or lobbying for specific votes, but rather for low-key socializing and building up the rapport that might help in later situations,” he wrote.
Unlike the former president, this president is not new to this game.
Well, he certainly is a neophyte, pissed off lots of nutsuckers down in the house and senate, and democrats as well, several foreign countries, embarrassed us in the world, made us look week. Has his ass handed him by Mexico.
Nutsucker felchgobbling from Il Douches Bagdad Bob, is not anything other than what it always is, nutsucker felchgobbling
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