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Trump’s Journey From Double Down to Flip-Flop

A president who has long ignored criticism is suddenly giving in, reversing course on the G7 summit and withdrawal from Syria.
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Donald Trump’s administration has beat a hasty retreat from the mountains of “Get over it” to the deserts of “Never mind.”

Saturday night, two days after Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney that the administration would host the Group of Seven summit at the president’s Trump National Doral resort, the eponymous hotelier abruptly reversed that “both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility,” most that the by the hostility among fellow Republicans.

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