#presidential-rhetoric

#presidential-rhetoric

The problem for Trump at such a moment is that he's not a persuader; he's a pitchman, the kind of salesman who transmits in exclamation points all the fantastic, terrific, unbelievable features of the new car he wants you to buy. But the salesman is not who you want to talk to when you have the broken-down old jalopy towed back to the lot and demand a refund.

And as we come on the air tonight, things are actually happening, here on Capitol Hill, which after 42 42 days of this government shutdown, is actually worth a breaking-news banner of its own, because lawmakers are now working late into the evening, tonight, to seal the deal, and end the longest government shutdown on record. That hasn't stopped the White House's efforts and the President's efforts to stop full food assistance benefits from going out.

They want the Guard to come in. Or, they don't care who comes in. They just wanna be safe. And they really don't care. There was one woman, she was great today. She said. You know what? I don't care if it's the National Guard, the Army, the Marines, the Air Force, I don't care who comes in, as long as we're safe. And that's the way most of the public feels.

The indictment charges a sitting Member of Congress for conducting oversight of a controversial ICE facility and for continuing to undertake that oversight in the face of ICE obstruction that included deliberate delays, deception, an armed and masked response team of over a dozen agents, and the arrest of the Mayor of Newark in the middle of a crowd of civilians on a baseless trespassing charge.

As far as his speech goes, well, he insulted the UN, most of our allies, all of Europe, and, of course, common sense. He went three times longer than his allotted time, but once you've decided the Constitution is a list of superannuated suggestions, what do you care about the UN and its time constraints? Basically, the speech was crude and stupid and greeted with an eight-kiloton silence.