Chuck Todd: Trump Can’t Handle Short-Term Political Pain for His Long-Term Goals

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TODD: “I think until you see pen and paper, until you see trade deals happen with India and Japan, until you actually see these things happen, I think the markets are going to have a hard time taking words, right, to the bank on this front. But this is the trap he’s put himself in, right? He’s got some long-term goals, and in order to get to those long-term goals, there’s going to be — there’s potentially short-term political pain, but he can’t handle the short-term political pain, as we have found out, right? He keeps — he’s essentially trying to manage, he’s managing the economy right now with his news cycle brain and he’s trying to fix the news cycle. Let’s see if I can buy a day, buy a couple of days, get this off the front page, buy some time. We all get this. A lot of people in their lives, you juggle things that, boy, this is something I don’t want to deal with.”