Donald Trump has been playing nice with Democrats since his electoral wipeout, but don’t expect it to last.
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President Donald Trump’s mass takedown in the midterms will make him more likely to “run amok,” his biographer says.
Starting in January, the 80-year-old president will see the House and Senate controlled by Democrats, after a blue wave swept away Republican Party majorities on Tuesday.
This will deprive him of the integrated channel in Congress that he enjoyed during his first two years in the White House and make him more dependent on the executive powers of the presidency.
“A Trump stuck in his previous incarnations was generally a Trump gone wild, and this is likely to be the president the world will live with for the next two years,” wrote Timothy L. O’Brien, who wrote TrumpNation: the art of being the Donald. It was published in 2005.
Writing for Bloomberg, he explained how, throughout Trump’s career, he has had the ability to operate as a lone wolf, and that “the preference for solo piloting also encourages him to redouble his efforts when he fails, without regard for the consequences.”
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Trump did not question the election result and even suggested he would be willing to work with Democrats during his new lame duck era, saying, “I think I can work with anything.”
O’Brien said it was reminiscent of Trump in his previous career.
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“Congratulations to the Democrats,” he told Fox News immediately after the election. “I think the Democrats did a good job. I really do. I think they did a good job. They fought hard. They fought, you know, they fought for a long time. They’ve been fighting me for a long time. This fight has been going on for ages.”
When asked if he would work with the Democrats during the same interview, he replied: “I would. Yes, I think the Democrats want to work with me.”
Trump has said he would be open to working with Democrats.
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“I have a lot of Democratic friends,” he told Fox. “They obviously want to talk, but I have the power of veto, and the power of veto is, you know, it’s impervious.”
But Trump had already brandished his veto like a loaded weapon. “I have the ultimate power – it’s called the ‘veto,'” he told CBS News before the polls closed.
On Sunday, he told the New York Post Pod Force One podcast that he intended to use it for “a month or two” before making any deals.
Trump may be about to start building, on a large scale.
“I guess I’m going to become Mr. Veto,” he said.
Insiders speculated that Trump’s priorities would change after Tuesday’s result.
“He definitely recognizes that library development season is upon us now, and he’s going to go for it,” a senior administration official told CBS News.
A second person told the same outlet: “Anything he can control, which means: build. »
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
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