Pundit
American environmental advocate and civil rights activist
I think that the Democratic field that there's going to be two things happening with this field. Who is going to be the best champion to sort of go up against Trump and Trump is and people going to, you know, back of their mind, 'How can…
And I want to say this, we keep calling it the government, the government. This is America's government. Let's be -- we're not talking about the government on the moon or some other country. He won't keep America's government functioning.
Donald Trump said himself he wants responsibility. He should take responsibility and reopen the government.
Well, he apparently doesn't if you heard his comments today which were just so shocking and appalling, tone deaf and, you know, just disconnected.
He's having to throw this raw meat to his base because he is in a weak position.
I think he looks foolish either way. I mean, you have a President who is inflicting real pain on real people who work for our government to try to solve a phony crisis at the border.
Having somebody good at the EPA is also important. Keeping America's water from having poison in it and the air from being polluted, all of these important jobs are not helped in the recruitment when you have these kinds of things.
It's not good news. There's a context here which we've now just gotten used to. It's important to remind people. Why won't the president sit down and have a conversation with Mueller?
The reality is, everybody knows -- everybody knows that Trump can't talk without lying. Now, this is a massive disability for anybody, let alone the head of a country, that literally his lawyers are terrified that if he opens his mouth, he…
You know, you have the House now firmly in the hands of Democrats. You saw real victories in the Trump heartland, industrial heartland, and states that he's got to hang onto.
I mean, I just think we've been punched numb. The idea that the President of the United States likes an ad, loves it, tweets it out, and it is so racist and so offensive that Fox News, no great friend of civil rights, can't even run it, we…
When you have fear and helplessness, you don't have the House, you don't have the senate, you don't have the Supreme Court, you don't have the White House, you've got nothing, it's unhealthy.