Donald Trump wants that wall, and he’s willing to throw America’s federal workers, and its people at large, under the bus to get it.

The US government shutdown rolls on, but at least Trump didn’t push the figurative ‘big red button’ and declare a national emergency, as many feared he might.

Not that his first ever Oval Office address last night (or this morning South African time) was a home run, because any sane person knows that the border wall with Mexico will be a massive waste of taxpayer money.

One man who really isn’t buying it is the Daily Beast’s Rick Wilson, who says that Trump delivered  “a Wet Fart Oval Office Address”.

Look, his argument is more nuanced than that, but it’s clear he’s no fan of the Donald. Off we go with Rick’s takedown:

On Tuesday night, Trump’s flaming dumpster train of distractions, lies, cons, and empty political promises flew off the rails and plunged into a mountain of burning tires in one of his worst public speeches…

This speech wasn’t about saving his utterly fake wall. The $5.7 billion dollars he’s demanded as his vig for ending the shutdown isn’t even close to being seriously considered, and this speech was an overt admission he’s out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas. The crisis he proudly created will end without a wall, and he knows it…

Trump looked exhausted, squinty, and bored, reading in a near-monotone from the Teleprompter.  It went over like a wet fart.

I’d say that’s a bit harsh on wet farts.

Of course, if you ask Donald, it was a home run:

Right, back to Rick:

The man who gleefully put kids in cages tried to briefly pretend he gives a damn about migrant children in the least convincing humanitarian performance since the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang…

The speech can most accurately be seen as the death twitch of The Wall cult.  Trump can’t deliver a product, so he’s looking to sell something different.

He said it tonight; the idea of a glorious concrete wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico is deader than that lemur he glues on his head every morning. It will, at most, be a fence. This is not what Trump’s supporters voted for. They voted for his sales pitch of a 30-foot concrete wall with laser moats, robot alligators, and minefields, all paid for by Mexico.

Seems like Donnie has conveniently forgotten about that promise, but Chuck Schumer has not:

President @realDonaldTrump wants you to forget he shut down the U.S. government until American taxpayers fund a wall he insisted Mexico would pay for. Here are a few dozen examples. pic.twitter.com/G0xvsBO6gH

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 9, 2019

Awks.

Trump is a liar, and Rick is tired of it:

He is a gushing Niagara of lies, a torrential waterfall of deceptions, exaggerations, statistical manglings, and dumbfuck agitprop that insults the intelligence of Americans outside his base…

Trump’s speech contained more lies per second than any presidential speech in history, including William Howard Taft’s “I did not devour an entire roast lamb and drink a magnum of gravy to wash it down” speech, or Bill Clinton’s “I was at the gym. That’s just sweat.” classic.

To finish, the speech was really an admission that he’s lost this battle:

[Trump] demanded his Wall and bet his most fundamental campaign promise on it. He walked himself into a political box canyon of a foolish government shutdown, an untenable demand, and Democrats motivated to hold the line. The speech wasn’t the usual trick escape play for the man accustomed to getting away with damn near everything; it was the exact opposite.

The Wall is dead. The shutdown will end. Donald Trump blew it, bigly.

He really has backed himself into a corner, though, and the worst part is that he’s on record saying he’ll own the shutdown.

Goad him just a little, and you make him say whatever you want:

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If a shutdown happens, & Trump tries to claim he does not own it, loop what he said to Schumer@realDonaldTrump—“If we don’t get what we want…I am proud to shut down the government for border security…I’m not going to blame you for it.” pic.twitter.com/SUd8gCc6zS

— Rantt Media (@RanttMedia) December 11, 2018

No wonder Putin loves him so much – like putty in his hands.

If you’re a sucker for punishment, you can go ahead and watch Donnie’s speech for yourself:

[source:dailybeast]