The Daily 202: Trump’s DACA tweetstorm speaks volumes about his presidency
Trump’s DACA tweetstorm speaks volumes about his presidency Trump: 'Mexico has got to help us at the border' BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump is either woefully uninformed or intentionally misleading the American people about one of his most consequential decisions as president. Which is the more charitable explanation? With a trio of temperamental tweets on Easter Sunday and three follow-ups this morning, Trump announced there will be no deal to save the 700,000 “dreamers” whose futures he put in peril by ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. He also called on Republicans to change the rules of the Senate to pass anti-immigration legislation with a simple majority and threatened to kill the North American Free Trade Agreement if Mexico does not step up border security. The president then falsely claimed that there are “big flows of p...