President Trump said (via Twitter):
Any guesses what that might be?
Honestly, I’m not expecting anything all that dramatic. Lots of bluster and shifting the blame, no meaningful solution to the shutdown.
He could do something useful like announce his resignation but I wouldn’t bet money on that.
I’m guessing a national emergency declaration as much as I am strenuously hoping he doesn’t fuck try to fuck DOD like that. To be followed almost immediately by a stampede of lawyers rushing to file the court challenge to the declaration.
And the freezing of the Corps of Engineers reconstruction and flood control projects a bunch of us have just spent a year and a half of toil to get cleared and financed :mad:
I’m torn. On one hand, it could be the bullshit emergency he’s been teasing for a while. Or, it could just be some bullshit bullshit that he’s been living for seven decades.
Can’t crawl into the mind of what a crazy person may do, so I have no prediction.
Hamburgers!
Hamberders!
Maybe Melania is divorcing him and moving to Mexico.
If he is going to do something about the “Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border” I would guess he is going to reverse all his previous policies? No?
He’s going to announce that due to his very, very awesome leadership. The Greatest Presidency in the History of the Universe, the Galactic Federation has asked us to join them, but he turned them down since they are free-loading socialists. He will though allow the Romulans to join 'merica if they promise to pay their way, learn English and use orange spray tan so they don’t look too brown. They should also put 134 billion dollars into a Swiss bank account opened by one “John Barron.”
He will announce that America has won $5 billion in the Mexican lottery, which will pay for the wall. The money will be delivered in 4 hours, but first all 330 million of us need to get a $1,500 prepaid debit card for the “prize handling fee.”
He will announce that we’re sending an additional $1.7 billion in hard currency to Iran.
I’m hoping it’ll be an end to the shutdown, but I wouldn’t count on it. Honestly, like most people, I’ve come to expect the worst.
He will announce that he’s 12% Mexican, and will therefore be getting an equivalent discount on Aeromexico flights.
In the spirit of his recent curtailment of congressional flying, Trump will announce the closure of various amenities geared towards Congress (any and all authority at his disposal - no matter how petty - will be considered) and that he is demanding that leaders get in the same room as him and not come out until they have a deal. His major announcement is that he is at the White House ready to make a deal, and that congress won’t be (given free ice cream / provided a federal security detail / allowed to visit any overseas military or diplomatic posts) until they get one signed.
Emergency declaration. Because he’s panicking. His numbers are going down. If the Buzzfeed story is true, he’s in real danger of impeachment. Time for a handy distraction!
A cave worded not to sound like a cave.
Since he can’t be trusted at all, nothing he offers can serve as the basis of any deal since he won’t hold up his end of any bargain. And that’s ignoring that the Democratic base doesn’t want the Democrats to cave in yet again, and they know it.