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Week Of High Expectations Stumbles To New Lows For Team Trump

Trump is known for his negotiating in real estate and show business, and the craft of the bluff was key to his Art of the Deal. But when this bluff was called, he did not have the cards or the votes.
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This was to have been the week when President Trump turned his fledgling presidency around, setting a course for success and letting the wind fill its sails at last.

Instead, it became his worst week to date, ending with the ship becalmed and its crew in disarray. After other controversies had spoiled the weather, the Republicans proved unable to muster the votes to pass their repeal-and-replace Obamacare bill in the House. The president and Speaker Paul Ryan had to call off the vote scheduled on the floor — not once but twice.

The media world, waiting in rapt attention, exploded in amazement and derision – from all sides of the political kaleidoscope. featured the historic photo of the dirigible striking a radio tower and bursting into flames. (Thehad shown him in the cab of a truck, consumed with road rage and shouting "!"

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