Mixed bag tonight. Trump’s speech writers went for “presidential.” It doesn’t wear well in him. They mostly took the Trump out of Trump. He was calm and measured but the speech needed more passion.
He laid out a pretty good case for the illegal immigration crisis, but largely ignored the details of the shutdown. He missed an opportunity to counter the media narrative blaming him for the shutdown by pointing out that the house passed a CR keeping the government open, but Senate Dems filibustered it simply over the wall finding. It is that Dem filibuster that caused the shutdown.
The speech built momentum towards the end, especially as he pointed the hypocrisy of open borders liberals living behind walls themselves, and all the victims of illegal immigrant violent criminals and drugs.
As for the Dems, the picture was worth way more than anything they said....
It’s like a real life political cartoon. Whoever staged that presentation needs to be fired immediately.