The anatomy of Trump’s total and utter capitulation to yet another industry after giving the impression he might believe in something.
it would pull its flavored products from the shelves, would stop its marketing campaign accused of targeting minors, and would refrain from lobbying against the ban. Since there is quite literally nothing that binds Donald Trump to any thought or belief or course of action other than his own immediate self-interest, it makes sense that he twists and turns with the moment and is ultimately bowled over by whoever gets to him last.
And whether Juul did its own lobbying or not, the lobbying certainly happened. “Allies working for the vaping industry have told Mr. Trump of battleground state polling of his own voters that showed the issue costing him support,”to the New York Times. “One such poll was commissioned by John McLaughlin, one of the Trump campaign pollsters, for the Vapor Technology Association. The poll, which surveyed battleground state voters who vape, showed negative results for Mr.
Shortly after, Trump decided against signing the one-page “decision memo,” canceling the administration’s rollout of an announcement, before coming out and saying that he didn’t want to go through with the ban that he said was really his wife and daughter’s idea anyway. The ban, which would have cleared candy-, fruit-, and mint-flavored e-cigarettes used by some 5 million American teenagers off the shelves in 30 days, had already been vetted and cleared by federal regulators at that point.
On Veterans Day, Trump took to Twitter in between anti-impeachment screeds to announce, essentially, he nowto “study” the issue more. “Will be meeting with representatives of the Vaping industry, together with medical professionals and individual state representatives, to come up with an acceptable solution to the Vaping and E-cigarette dilemma,” Trump tweeted.
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