That rigmarole in the Oval Office yesterday was a Pottery Barn moment for Donald Trump. Now Pottery Barn is a genteel place for mainly genteel folks, but they do have a “You break it, You bought it” policy to try to keep people from mishandling the merchandise.
Other than the increasingly obvious fact that Trump is mishandling everything he gets his hands on – see, I didn't even say “tiny” hands – this moment came when, all discombobulated, he told Chuck Schumer that he would proudly shut down the government if he didn't get $5 billion for his fantasy wall. “I will take the mantle,” he boasted, in a turn of phrase that was curiously literate for this ignoramus and which he probably heard on a bad late night cable movie.
Yo, bro, the mantle was already yours because Nancy Pelosi christened it the Trump Shutdown, which made you do a double take and made her repeat it. And that was before Schumer conned you into taking public ownership of any government shutdown. When Trump was running his mouth about taking the mantle, Schumer looked like he had just answered his door to find Publisher's Clearing House and a giant check.
Dang, the Prez is easy pickings for real pros. Pelosi and Schumer weren't looking for the fight that Trump had set up, but they jabbed him silly-er and followed with some good shots that had him so punchy and pissed that he bungled his way into his own personal Pottery Barn. Historically, whoever causes a government shutdown suffers for it. Historically, also, no one has ever telegraphed his intentions like our mantled President. The usual thing is to blame it on the other guys, but Trump can't do that now that he is proudly accepting the mantle.
If Trump didn't get the message that the Congressional honeymoon is officially over, he's thicker than he seems, although maybe it's that he hasn't really accepted the fact that he got his ass kicked on November 6 very very bigly. He made it about him and him lost the popular vote by a huge margin and the Dems flipped 40 House seats.
Nancy Pelosi wasn't taking any of Trump's shit. She got right in his paunchy-eyed face when he tried to question her power. This wasn't some ass-kissing phony like Paul Ryan, this was a woman in full political control with the experience and the savvy to use it to make Donald Trump's life a series of everyday hells. She later compared the meeting to getting into a pissing contest with a skunk, although she said “tinkle.”
Hey, this is just a preview. Nancy Pelosi talked for eight hours straight on the House floor about protection for Dreamers on February 8 with no bathroom break and wearing 4-inch heels. That is a woman I would not want on my case.
She is not alone. There are going to be a lot of cases under Democrat oversight and questions are going to be asked that must now be answered or suffer the full legal consequences, not the free passes issued like salt water taffy by political swine like Devin Nunes.
Hey, Trump, it just started. Let's see what you got.
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