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Democrats panned the executive actions immediately. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared on ABC News Sunday morning “This Week,” calling her “spicy.” ‘
“Unfortunately, the president’s executive duties, described in one word, can be palpable; in three words, unworkable, weak and far too narrow, ”said the New York Democrat. “The event at the country club is exactly what Trump is doing, a great show, but it does nothing.”
A White House official said on Saturday the president had the ‘upper hand’ by moving forward with actions and showing how poorly the Democrats were willing to actually negotiate.
“It just shows that Trump is ready to do things and work on the weekends, unlike Chuck and Nancy,” said Jason Miller, an adviser to the Trump campaign, referring to minority leader and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi .
But throughout the negotiations, the president himself was absent for the most part, although he said he was regularly updated by his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. And although the country has been rocked by the pandemic, the president has not spoken to Pelosi since last year, suggesting he would not do so soon.
“We’ll see what happens, but at the moment they are not ready,” Trump said, referring to Democratic lawmakers. “And they are not ready, because I honestly do not think they care about people.”
The president was pleased with how the news conferences went, according to assistants, especially in the company of members of his club. Some came straight from happy hour with glass of wine.
Before the first news conference, according to CNN, the president was heard on a microphone telling members: ‘You will meet the fake news tonight. You’ll see what I have to go through. Who’s there? Oh, all my killers are there, wow. You’ll see some of the people we deal with every day. “
People in the room gasped and fisted when a reporter asked why members of his club appeared to be blabbering on about New Jersey guidelines by following in the room. Trump called it a ‘peaceful protest’ at his country club.
‘You know, you have an exclusion in the law. It says peaceful protest as a political activity, right? ‘Said Trump. “I call it a peaceful protest because they heard you came up and they know the news is false, they know it better than anyone.”
The weekend was meant to help Trump reset. On Friday, the president met with his top campaign advisers, including Bill Stepien and Jason Miller, at Bedminster, and spent Friday and Saturday time with one of his closest allies, Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.). On Saturday morning, Trump and Graham called a meeting of the Republican Party of South Carolina, according to a trusted person. First lady Melania Trump and her son Barron also spent the weekend at Bedminster.
The weekend away was also part of a major fundraising push by the Republican National Committee. RNC President Ronna McDaniel traveled with the President on Marine One and accompanied him on exclusive lenders on Thursday in Ohio, and then over the weekend in the Hamptons and New Jersey. On Saturday, Trump received an impetus from hobnobbing with friends at fundraisers at the ritzy homes of Wall Street billionaire John Paulson and Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., in the Hamptons who raised $ 15 million for Trump Victory.
His Sunday payouts took place on the banks of the New Jersey in Long Branch, where people acted as if there were no pandemic. Supporters, not socially distanced and without masks, crowded along the side of the road to see the president.
But even though the pandemic seems far away to some of the New Jersey public, the president had a gut-wrenching reminder of the toll of the virus when he visited. His last fundraiser of the weekend was held at the home of Stanley Chera, an old friend of the president and a colleague for real estate who died of coronavirus this spring.
“A great person, and a very beginning supporter,” Trump said. “Unfortunately, he did not make it.”
