prove him wrong, and i think that s the difference. it s sort of a classic trump play where you have this huge gap between the rhetoric about a deal or some accomplishment of his and the reality of it, right? he s saying this is a great deal, civilization is happy with his deal, and then you look and say, who is happy with it? turkey is happy with it. republicans are not happy. the kurds certainly are not happy. others in the administration and national security roles are not happy. he s going to keep saying this, hoping he can create this narrative that will overshadow everything. he s trying to substantiate what the president created by announcing u.s. withdrawal. so to hear the remarks at the event in texas, if you just woke nup t up in the middle of this, you would be like, oh, the u.s. stepped in to try to broker something between two people.
there will be no 5% tariffs. the question now is did the president get a big policy win here? has mexico agreed to do something significant to stop the flow of migrants. a classic trump play. you create a crisis and then you look like you solved it. most of the things that were laid out were things that mexico decided to dorks moving national guard to their southern border or things that were already in the works, which was ramping up the remain in mexico asylum policy. overall, no. it s not as though the president got huge new concessions. at the same time he can paint this as a political win. for him, that matters quite a bit. the mexicans, also, can claim that they were able to avoid giving big concessions. both parties here walk away feeling okay about the situation which is a bit odd because it was largely a self-created crisis. the first trump-kim summit.
happened in 2016 before he told us it was going to be rigged. it is one of the last days in may, i promise you before november 6th he will say that if the democrats take the house back that somebody meddled in those results as well at the ballot box. there s nothing he won t say because he s proven that in the past. the idea of him saying that mueller is timing releases of indictments and everything to help the democrats is in keeping with the narrative he s building all along, that he has a team of conflicted people working for him and that it s all a rigged investigation. but there s something really specifically important about his use of the phrase election meddling. this is also another classic trump play. he s trying to take the term back. russians meddled with our electionings. we know that to be true because of several intelligence reports and the overall anonymity that this was an effort. he s intentionally muddying the waters. it s not just conspiracy theory