“Trump, he’s had it with these people, because he knows they’re playing politics,” said the second person. “Nobody thought it was going to last this long.”
Trump and his top aides thought that unpaid federal workers, closed and limited federal facilities and threats of ever-more job cuts from Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, would be too much for Democrats to handle
“I don’t know what’s wrong with them,” he said of Democrats Friday. “They’ve never done a thing like this. They’ve become crazed lunatics. All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape. So there’s something wrong with them… It’s their fault. Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”
Well, he hasn’t heard anyone saying “no” to him before. I’m sure it’s happened, and his best friend might have known a bit about that.
Well, no one has ever said no to him and ‘really’ meant it, or could withstand the frivolous lawsuits he brought against them. All the other times didn’t really happen. One imagines anything that doesn’t match his own warped sense of reality fades very quickly in his mind. The parts of the story where he isn’t the big strong guy are quickly rewritten by the people surrounding him, and they never print out headlines or pictures to remind him about that sort of thing.