Trump Shouts Sweet Nothings in Trucking’s Ear
Photo: via Twitter, @realDonaldTrump
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Photo: via Twitter, @realDonaldTrump
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It’s one thing for a President of the United States to use trucks as a backdrop and truckers as a verbal prop in a speech flogging a policy initiative that is in serious danger of going nowhere fast.
It would be another thing if that same POTUS used the power of his office to keep pushing for an act of Congress that has a far better chance of passing– and that would undoubtedly benefit everyone in trucking along with all Americans who depend on trucking to deliver their goods.
What’s more, if that more winnable battle was won— or had already been won— it would make it far easier for that president and his party’s majority on Capitol Hill to notch other victories they have promised to their voters that they would secure this very year.
Yes, I am talking about the stump speech President Trump gave near Harrisburg, Penn., last night to pump up enthusiasm for the tax-reform package he has wanted Congress to pass all year. The event was part of his ongoing series of “road show” engagements that he uses (as have also his recent Oval Office predecessors) to tout one or another policy goal.
At this one, the invited guests included executives and members of the American Trucking Associations as well as representatives of local government and of such organizations as the National Federation of Independent Business. But in Trump’s talk there, truckers were front and center, figuratively standing in for what the president called the “hardworking men and women” of America.
“America first means putting America’s truckers first,” said Trump, warming up to his key message for the night that “our country, and our economy, cannot take off like they should unless we transform America’s outdated, complex, and extremely burdensome tax code.”
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