BTRTN: Toasted Wall Nut... Oval Office Speech Shows Weakness of Trump's Hand, and his Character

Born to Run the Numbers on Donald Trump's curious attempt to justify shutting the government in order to secure wall funding by talking about neither.

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2019/01/btrtn-toasted-wall-nut-oval-office.html

Excerpts: "Geez, the only thing that Donald Trump was supposedly good at is hosting a prime time television show in which he gets to sit in a big fancy chair and render wholly subjective, unchallenged judgments to a captive audience. Man, he can’t even do that. Last night, with the ability to commandeer the viewing attention of pretty much the entire nation, Donald Trump tried to sell his border wall to the American people with a peculiar tactic. He barely mentioned it...

"At no point did Trump do what a strong and serious leader would have done: issue a grand challenge, put a big new idea on the table, or even go out on a ledge and issue a demand, a threat, or an ultimatum. Perhaps he could have thundered, 'Democrats, bring me your sweeping legislation that solves DACA for you and builds a wall for me.' Nope. Trump even cowered from the legally risky but undoubtedly ballsy declaration of a national emergency. 'Give me my wall money or I am going to declare a national emergency and deflect funds from the military… make no mistake: one way or another, I am going to build that wall.' No, he chickened out...

"Yes, there he is, folks… the President of the United States of America. Just a big toasted Wall Nut, pompously blabbering on national television, but this time there is no way to get out by screaming 'you’re fired.' Now that’s our job."