President Donald Trump seems focused on trying to make people disbelieve their own eyes, apparently, at least when it comes to whether or not his policy agenda is successful. He’s been freaking out after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in a decision released this week — Trump had tried to end the program, which protects some undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. On Friday morning, Trump ludicrously claimed that “nothing was lost or won” in the DACA case at all, as if he was trying to wish the Supreme Court’s ruling out of existence.
Trump announces that he will take full responsibility for ending DACA, making clear that it is his decision to strip 650,000 people of their protections, and not something that he "had to do." https://t.co/s5Dw0gulmd
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) June 19, 2020
He’s playing egomaniacal mind games, basically. He tweeted:
‘The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. They “punted”, much like in a football game (where hopefully they would stand for our great American Flag). We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly in order to properly fulfil the Supreme Court’s ruling & request of yesterday. I have wanted to take care of DACA recipients better than the Do Nothing Democrats, but for two years they refused to negotiate – They have abandoned DACA. Based on the decision the Dems can’t make DACA citizens. They gained nothing! @DHSgov’
…ruling & request of yesterday. I have wanted to take care of DACA recipients better than the Do Nothing Democrats, but for two years they refused to negotiate – They have abandoned DACA. Based on the decision the Dems can’t make DACA citizens. They gained nothing! @DHSgov
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020
The fact that Trump tagged the Department of Homeland Security’s Twitter account as if he’s not the president and can’t just call them on the phone is a fitting reminder of his ludicrous incompetence.
Neal Katyal on President Trump's comments on DACA ruling: "The idea that a President of the U.S. would accuse … a co-equal branch of government or ruling just because they don't like him demonstrates just how much this guy is unfit for office." https://t.co/xij1hdWpw4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 18, 2020
His suggestion that “nothing was lost or won” in the Supreme Court case on DACA is false. The Supreme Court’s ruling wasn’t a suggestion! They determined that the Trump administration had violated the Administrative Procedure Act with their attempted ending of DACA. The court called the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA “arbitrary and capricious.” That’s not ambiguous!
Early Friday, he also complained about new Fox polling that shows Biden ahead and added a threat against potential protesters who might show up at his rally in Oklahoma this weekend.
.@FoxNews is out with another of their phony polls, done by the same group of haters that got it even more wrong in 2016. Watch what happens in November. Fox is terrible!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020
Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020
“THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response:
who among us can forget the APA's requirement for "enhanced papers" https://t.co/XJWrRPCWoq
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) June 19, 2020
Trump assures his white-identity cultists that he's determined to keep persecuting immigrants. https://t.co/oZlWLIHUkI
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) June 19, 2020
The reason the Trump Administration lost this case (and dozens of others over administrative actions) is because of repeated violations of federal rule making guidelines. Same thing happened in the Census / citizenship case last year before the Supreme Court. https://t.co/SUscmkokKL
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 19, 2020
This is the same ruling you called a "shotgun blast to the face" yesterday. Also, that's not how this works. #HereToStay https://t.co/S84kSAibPY
— Bruce Mirken (@BruceMirken) June 19, 2020
What's a better definition of "casual racism" than putting it in parentheses of a tweet sent out at 9am on a Friday? https://t.co/b7jJQvptHu
— Jack Barrett (@jwbarrett22) June 19, 2020
So the president is a tool who can't let anything out of his grasp… and compares human rights as a football game #Biden2020 https://t.co/cm0xZfovID
— Elizabeth Humphrey (@lizhump77) June 19, 2020
This is not what happened, of course. https://t.co/GGPxfaBVGZ
— Josh Dorner (@JoshDorner) June 19, 2020
