President Trump on Monday wielded the GOP’s new catchphrase for congressional oversight — “Presidential Harassment” — to blame Democrats for the morning’s downturn on Wall…
President Trump on Monday wielded the GOP’s new catchphrase for congressional oversight — “Presidential Harassment” — to blame Democrats for the morning’s downturn on Wall Street.
“The prospect of Presidential Harassment by the Dems is causing the Stock Market big headaches!” the commander-in-chief tweeted following a tough weekend in France, where he caught flak for skipping a solemn ceremony at a cemetery where US veterans were buried during World War I because it was raining.
The president was apparently referring to triple-digit slide in the Dow, which was down about 350 just after 11 a.m.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell first used the phrase last week after Democrats won the House, describing their expected investigations into Trump’s tax returns, business dealings and potential connections between Russia and his campaign as “presidential harassment.”
“The whole issue of presidential harassment is interesting. I remember when we tried it in the late ‘90s. We impeached President Clinton. His numbers went up and ours went down and we underperformed in the next election,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters.
The president himself has warned on Twitter that if House Democrats investigate him, he will sic the GOP-controlled Senate on them.
The president had no public events scheduled Monday after a weekend in which he also took heat for blaming raging wildfires on California’s land management policies and heard French President Emmanual Macron lambaste his embrace of nationalism .
“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism,” Macron said as Trump and other world leaders looked on.
At one of his MAGA rallies leading up to the Midterms, Trump declared that he was “a nationalist.”
“You know, they have a word, it sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist,” Trump said in Houston.
“And I say, ‘Really? We’re not supposed to use that word.’ You know what I am? I’m a nationalist. OK? I’m a nationalist.”
