[TheRealThing]

Being an effective President of the U.S. requires some political skills and it takes courage. Making empty threats to veto budget bills that do not fund a border wall has robbed Trump of all credibility on this issue.

If Trump does not have the stomach to take on Ryan and McConnell on this issue, then he should at the very least stop making empty promises to build a wall and focus attention on areas where he is not so impotent. At this point, Trump sounds ridiculous when he continues to claim that he is going to "build that wall."

Trump's continuing failure in this area is risking not only control of the House in next month's election, but control of the Senate and the White House in 2020. If President Trump cannot persuade his own party to enact legislation to make good on his signature campaign promise, why should anybody believe that he will do any better when faced with Speaker Pelosi or Majority Leader Schumer?

Few Republican presidents in modern history have been fortunate enough to serve while their own party controlled both houses of Congress. Things will not get any easier for Trump than they have been for the past two years.

Well, Trump didn't have the skills you mention when he first came to office to be sure. IF there were so much as a teaspoon of integrity to be found in DC, he might have reasonably expected his newly made cohorts to extend him some decency when he got there, if for no other's sake than we the people. But no, he's gotten the back of the hand at every turn and I don't need any help with this one, it has been a shame and an abomination to everything this land stands for. It took every new president some time to get things going by my recollection, and that includes Bill Clinton and George W..

In modern times (FDR forward) there has never been a situation in the federal government like the one we have seen with the Trump Administration. As I have been saying repeatedly even before his election, Trump, with the will of the people behind him no less, has had to take on the disloyal opposition party and a biased and corrupt media, an indoctrinated deepstate, his own party majority in both Houses, and in some cases the activist judiciary.

With the midterms now upon us I no more believe the polls or the media, about the outcome on this election than I did the last one. But for those who like to cite past political scenarios and make predictions based on historical considerations in our time is to me, evidence that most people still don't get that. To quote Tommy Lee Jones, "It's a brave new world."