Trump Wraps Plodding Speech on a Saccharine Note
President Trump gave what he promised would be a “long speech” to the nation Tuesday night amid a flurry of bad-for-Trump headlines.
His approval rating, particularly among independent voters, has sunk to new lows; his Department of Homeland Security — the one tasked with carrying out his top campaign promise to deport undocumented immigrants en masse — is stuck in shutdown purgatory, with immigration enforcement operating on a slush fund and key TSA and FEMA services on the brink of suspension; the Supreme Court, which he stacked with his own conservative nominees, just blocked his signature tariff policy; and he is mulling taking military action in Iran, a move that is unpopular even among his supporters.
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