The Duce is setting himself up for further humiliation

Trump tries to bounce back after horrible day damages presidency

This morning he tweeted the same lying nonsense.

The only lie about the wall he does not hourly repeat is that Mexico will pay for it.

21 days goes very quickly. 

Negotiations with Democrats will start immediately. 

Will not be easy to make a deal, both parties very dug in. 

The case for National Security has been greatly enhanced by what has been happening at the Border & through dialogue. 

We will build the Wall!

And this.

"If he gives in now, that's the end of 2019 in terms of him being an effective President," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, said on Fox News earlier this month. 

"That's probably the end of his presidency."

Graham is known for hyperbole. 

But his comment encapsulates the challenge that the President now has in battling to regain his authority.

His safest move, I think, if he remains unwilling to appear to totally give up on his wall, is to declare a national emergency and hope the flood of new conservative judges appointed on his watch will surprise the nation with the news that he can do whatever he wants in the name of an emergency he is entirely free to invent.

Another shutdown would not work out any better for him than this one, and might provoke the Republicans to rebel.

Even being told to pound sand with his emergency by the courts would do him and the GOP less harm than another shutdown.

Always assuming Nancy and Chuck are never going to give him more than that one dollar for the wall.

Thing is, a significant majority of Americans think the wall is bollocks, already.

If he keeps trying to build it he just keeps annoying all those folks.

Who will be even more annoyed if he actually does build it - all of it or even part of it.