Will The Secret Service Have to Tackle Trump One of These Days?

From The Washington Post regarding President Trump's decision not to abrogate NAFTA after all:


“I was all set to terminate,” Trump said in an Oval Office interview Thursday night. “I looked forward to terminating. I was going to do it.”


There was just one problem: Trump’s team — like on so many issues — was deeply divided.
 
As news of the president’s plan reached Ottawa and Mexico City in the middle of the week and rattled the markets and Congress, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and others huddled in meetings with Trump, urging him not to sign a document triggering a U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA.


Perdue even brought along a prop to the Oval Office: A map of the United States that illustrated the areas that would be hardest hit, particularly from agriculture and manufacturing losses, and highlighting that many of those states and counties were “Trump country” communities that had voted for the president in November.


“It shows that I do have a very big farmer base, which is good,” Trump recalled. “They like Trump, but I like them, and I’m going to help them.”


By Wednesday night, Trump — who spent nearly two years as a candidate railing against the trade agreement — had backed down, saying that conversations with advisers and phone calls with the leaders of Canada and Mexico had persuaded him to reconsider.


The above scenario reminds me of Billy Crystal's joke that Trump will be the only President to ever have to be tackled by his own Secret Service.


It also reminds me of the 1990's movie Dave starring Kevin Kline. If you've never seen it, Kline plays a man named Dave who is a doppelganger for the President of the United States. When the President has a stroke, Dave is called upon to take his place unbeknownst to the public. While the media is being told the President is recovering and being briefed, Dave is being instructed on the three branches of government. I have a funny feeling this has occurred more than once in the Trump White House.


With that said, it is assuring that someone other than Ivanka Trump can tell her father the answer is no. I had worried Trump would listen to no one else. It is good to know there are others who can rein him in. But unfortunately this won't be the last time this happens. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is a daily occurrence. It is a chaotic and exhausting way to govern and its breeds instability and uncertainty. America's allies had enough instability and uncertainty with President Obama. We do not need more. In which case, under no circumstances, should President Trump ever be left alone with the nuclear codes. Especially when he is on Twitter.