Trump II Shanks Shutdown

Flashback (from CNN):

TRUMP: But if there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States. He’s the one that has to get people together. 

 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who’s going to bear the brunt of the responsibility if indeed there is a — is shutdown of our government? 

TRUMP: Well, if you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. I mean, problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top. And the president’s the leader, and he’s got to get everybody in a room, and he’s got to lead.

This has been today's lesson in the Trump Rule which compels him to say whatever he believes in the present moment will optimize his image.  You could play that back in front of him and he would say "I never said that.  That's AI."

Just as the video of Trump shanking a shot in front of the green is also AI.  True to form, Trump's standards for other Presidents do not apply to him.  He hit the course today instead of getting people together to reopen the government.

Welcome to crazy town where brains are broken every day.  To heal your brain remember the Trump rule:

Trump says in the present moment what he believes will optimize his image.

There is no other rule.  It has zero to do with reality or his developing prerogative state:

See E Fraenkel, The Dual State, pp xiii, 3, 71 (1941) (describing the way in which the creation of a ‘Prerogative State’ where the Executive ‘exercises unlimited arbitrariness … unchecked by any legal guarantees’ is incompatible with the rule of law)

Or the rules of golf....