Other than the Kanye shout-out, it was a weak repetition of the same illogical fodder for Trump’s base.
The Wall is back as a meme, in contrast to his dithering about slats during his various stunts yesterday.
He’s still worried about impeachment (“why can’t I just pay a fine for obstructing justice?”), but more worried about an indictment, trying to divert the attention away from #TrumpRussia, and his repeating a Russian revisionist line on Afghanistan.
The lockout continues that message. It's a shakedown, not a shutdown. And it’s a spectacle designed to distract us from actual criminal behavior in the WH.
Podcast
Cracks in the Republican Party’s façade of unity are showing. Trump stumbled into the New Year, having invited a shutdown of the federal government, prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis, suffered through the stock market’s worst December since the Great Depression, and watched his nemesis Nancy Pelosi assume the speakership of the House.