Trump Thinks If He Brings Cookies In On His Last Days Of Work, Maybe They’ll Let Him Stay

If that’s not what all this craziness with suddenly refusing to sign a COVID-19 relief bill, then suddenly caving is kind of all about, then what is?

All we can see is an effort to rev up hatred for the government — regardless of whether Republican or Democrat — while holding out some hope of bringing some love to Trump. And if that’s the note on which he goes out, it’ll say a lot about Congress’ loss of power, and a gain if not by Trump, immediately, himself, by the idea Trump’s tried to plant in the heads of many Americans all along: that a dictatorship wouldn’t be all that bad; at least it’d mean “much more money is coming”. And with that, Democracy becomes something to fight, not cherish, because it means somebody other than you might win.

We’re seeing this spotlighted in multiple tantrum-related moves by Trump just now:

1. COVID-19 relief. After it passed in the House and Senate, Trump refused to sign it, saying one-time relief payments should be $2000, not $600. But then, on the eve of people losing thousands in additional unemployment benefits, he did sign it. We’re all for pushing for the larger dollar amount, just that it could’ve been done a long time ago, but Trump was not caring about it then. Now, Trump’s trying to look like he alone cares about American families, while Congress doesn’t. Fact is the $600 amount was proposed by the Trump administration itself. Was the President not paying attention? His own Treasury Secretary called the bill Trump initially refused to sign “fabulous”. Trump called it “a disgrace”, but then signed it a few days later anyway. Also, Democrats way back in October passed a COVID-19 package with a much bigger one-time payment, and the Republican-controlled Senate just ignored it for months. So did Trump. At one point when legislators finally sat down to hammer it out, a larger dollar amount was discussed, but that would’ve been instead of continuing federal unemployment benefits through March, which for many people are far more valuable. Let’s not forget then, that in holding up the bill to get one-time payments up from $600 to $2000, Trump was preventing people from getting $300 a week in…