Raw Story: 'The window is going to close': Trump warned he needs to move quickly before public turns

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - 'The window is going to close': Trump warned he needs to move quickly before public turns

Tom Boggioni
December 25, 2024 8:01AM ET

Appearing on CNN on Christmas morning, longtime political advisor Mark McKinnon claimed Donald Trump will have to hit the ground running after being sworn with a short window before he starts facing insurmountable hurdles.

Speaking with host Kasie Hunt. McKinnon, who has worked with both Democrats and Republicans, pointed out that the president-elect has slim majorities in both chambers of Congress and there will reach a point when GOP lawmakers will have to start considering their 2026 re-election prospects regardless of what Trump wants.

"I covered the entire first Trump administration from Capitol Hill and the defining word of that period of time was chaos, right, for four straight years," host Hunt prompted her guest. "You would think things would be going a certain way, and then there would be a tweet or, you know, a comment, and it would blow everything up, right? Is that the kind of feeling you expect to come back to Washington, or do you think we're going to see kind of a different way of doing things?"

"Well, I think that Trump and the Republican Party recognize how slim that majority is in the House, and therefore they're going to move on that mandate like lightning in the first year, because that's about all the time that they've got," McKinnon replied. "It's almost certain that it's going to swing back and Democrats will at least take the House back in two years."

"I mean, voters are just cranky these days and basically what they want every two years is to change no matter who's there," he elaborated. "So I think Trump and Republicans recognize that. I just think that we're just going to see, you know, a first, you know, 90 days, 100 days and first year of this Republican administration really try and get as much done as they can, because they know that the window is going to close very quickly."

/snip

[Lovie777]

1. It's already closing......

[sop]

2. "Hit the ground running" for Trump means taking advantage of every opportunity to ratchet up the grifting

[Walleye]

5. Running and hurdles, I can't get past that. Trump can't do that.

[sop]

12. "Trump hit the ground while shuffling down a ramp"

[Walleye]

15. 😆

[NameAlreadyTaken]

13. "Hit the ground in a golf cart"

is more his style.

[rasputin1952]

19. DJT running...

I think that is impossible from this mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, sad excuse for a human being to accomplish, physically or mentally.

There are only two motivators for him, profit and the limelight. Leeches are not known for their swiftness, nor their intellectual prowess.
Just latch onto something until the host either dies or its system is so full it can't take any more in (an impossibility with this guy).

One might think that the recent pictures of this clown, physically, he might not make it past 2025/26, despite the best health care the country can provide.

As for his mental acuity, when you start as an idiot, there's no winning strategy for the future.

[spapeggy]

3. "mandate"

[bdamomma]

20. He

has no "mandate".

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Dems need to focus on moving those 'insurmountable hurdles' forward.

One of the worst things about a 2nd maladministration for the grifter is that any SCOTUS justice who retires will be replaced by a younger, MAGA-adjacent lawster chosen by Leonard Leo. It would be like giving the Opus Dei faction a huge life extension. And Sotomayor, with chronic health issues, could be replaced, giving a 7-2 majority for years to come. Since that's decided in the Senate, not the House, Dems need to squeeze all the juice they can out of every GOP screwup and slipup they can in the House. With the Senate and SCOTUS ensnared in MAGA tentacles, It's about all the power they'll have for at least the next two years.

[mopinko]

7. so do goopers who dont want to spend the next 2-4 yrs under his thumb.

the few who tanked gaetz know or shd know how much power synamanchin had by being the big holdouts.
house thugs r already a herd of cats.

the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and there will be much grease to go around. i think a few r smart enough to make that work for them.

[Mariana]

6. I'm not so optimistic.

McKinnon, who has worked with both Democrats and Republicans, pointed out that the president-elect has slim majorities in both chambers of Congress and there will reach a point when GOP lawmakers will have to start considering their 2026 re-election prospects regardless of what Trump wants.

Trump is much more popular among their voters than they are. Republicans in Congress and the Senate are more likely to lose votes for opposing Trump than by going along and letting his idiotic policies play out. They know this.

[allegorical oracle]

9. May depend on when, and how many, voters' oxen get gored by TSF's tendencies to overreach.

Hard to believe that as voters get squeezed between abortion, deportation, financial, and housing issues, many won't grow disenchanted with *him*. Others also may come to understand how much personal profit *he's* pilfering from various programs while voters' living costs continue to rise.

[Mariana]

17. They will never blame him for anything, ever.

Everything bad that happens will *always* be someone else's fault. Or else they'll just deny that the bad thing is happening. We saw both of those things happen when Covid struck.

It's a cult, and religious beliefs aren't rational, by definition.

[Arazi]

8. There's a 24/7 propaganda machine that will prop him up

I don’t believe this for a moment. Traitor is already going after the (the rest of the) journalists/media HARD to cow them into submission.

And they are falling into line.

Gullible Americans will believe whatever he tells them to believe.

We have solid evidence already from Biden’s term where the RW media successfully lied about facts like crime stats, job creation, international diplomacy, Hunter Biden etc

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. "And they are falling into line."

They sure are. Hell, go look at the auto industry for the latest butt-smooching.

It is disgusting.

[jalan48]

10. Look for a Shock Doctrine event to distract the public while Trump and Musk overthrow our Democracy.

[Zorro]

14. Exactly

This is straight out of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. And there will be several immediate shocking events that will roil our nation and economy that they will implement before the public can react.

[jalan48]

16. Yep, and I don't think we're ready for it. The people, including the Democrats, will fall in line just like after 9/11.

[uponit7771]

18. Trump will just start a war like other dictators have done