Trump's Big CON: 'I'm a Great Negotiator', Budget Edition

"[H]ere are the eight most notable areas Trump caved in his first big spending negotiation: . .

1. [E]xplicit restrictions to block the border wall.

2. Non-defense domestic spending will go up . .

3. Barack Obama’s cancer moonshot is generously funded. . .

4. The final deal trims [the EPA] budget by just 1 percent, with no staff cuts. As part of a compromise, the EPA gets $80 million less than last year, but the budget is $8 billion.

5. He didn’t defund Planned Parenthood. . .

6. The president got less than half as much for the military as he said was necessary. . .

7. Democrats say they forced Republicans to withdraw more than 160 riders. These unrelated policy measures, which each could have been a poison pill . . .

8. [T]he White House already agreed last week to continue paying Obamacare subsidies . . .

Soon after the deal was reached last night, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi quickly put out celebratory statements. But McConnell and Paul Ryan did not. . .

The bigger picture: 'Trump is a nightmare negotiating partner,' writes USA Today commentary editor Jill Lawrence, who wrote a book called 'The Art of the Political Deal.' 'The only constants with Trump are unpredictability and expediency. These are not, suffice it to say, the traditional cornerstones of getting to yes in politics.'"

Read the Washington Post, Eight ways Trump got rolled in his first budget negotiation.