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Miles Archer

(22,865 posts)
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 03:29 PM Feb 7

Trump "will only meet with Republicans at the upcoming National Governors Association meeting"

During the National Governors Association meeting later this month, President Donald Trump, 79, will only convene with Republican governors, state leaders learned on Friday. The move breaks from decades of meetings between the president and governors across the aisle. It also undermines the NGA’s stated goal of bipartisanship.

The NGA meeting is scheduled for the weekend of Feb. 19 in Washington, D.C. The change in invite list comes after a series of public sparring matches with Democratic governors, including California’s Gavin Newsom and Minnesota’s Tim Walz.

Brandon Tatum, acting Executive Director and CEO of the NGA, said that the organization was “disappointed in the administration’s decision to make it a partisan occasion this year.”

“To disinvite individual governors to the White House sessions undermines an important opportunity for federal-state collaboration,” Tatum said in a statement to The Daily Beast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-upends-decades-of-tradition-to-take-petty-swipe/

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Deuxcents

(26,583 posts)
4. No one should attend. I know...I know, but it would be great for just once to show some backbone
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 03:34 PM
Feb 7

NCDem47

(3,430 posts)
8. "Two unequal Americas"
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 05:32 PM
Feb 7

he only governs for those that vote for him.

How America has fallen during his presidency.

bluestarone

(22,050 posts)
10. Well, so much about a president for ALL the people, huh?
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 07:00 PM
Feb 7

Right out in the open Dirty filthy no good BASTARD!

Initech

(108,569 posts)
11. He thinks he's only president of Fox News viewers.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 07:01 PM
Feb 7

What a truly sad, pathetic individual. He and his pedo news network must end.

Maru Kitteh

(31,658 posts)
13. He may lack the capacity to cope with audiences that are not 100% maga now.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 01:56 PM
Feb 11

This could plausibly be staff protecting him from himself by directing him, egging him on, to simply exclude anyone not guzzling the Kool-Aide.

I could see that. Same with the Superbowl and who knows what else.



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