[TheRealThing]

Being president is not an easy job but great ones know when to push an advantage. Trump was elected mainly because of his promise to build the wall and to make Mexico pay for it. The best chance that he had of making good on the first half of that promise was taking a firm stand immediately after he assumed office. As for making Mexico pay for a wall, well, that was just an applause line.

Blaming Democrats and RINOs for Trump's failure to make funding for a border wall his top priority is an argument that doesn't hold water. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were the Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader when Trump ran for the presidency and when he was sworn into office.

RINOs were in the House and Senate before Trump entered the campaign and they have been there for decades. Nothing changed from the time Trump repeatedly promised to build a wall until Republicans lost control of the House in 2018.

Attempts to excuse Trump from trying to get a wall funded in the early days of his presidency are lame. Trump is smart enough to understand that he is not going to secure serious funding for a border wall at this point of his presidency without making major concessions to Democrats that no conservative should be willing to accept.

All true except for a couple notable distinctions, and BTW, I'm not laying nor have I been laying a smoke barrage for the President. He was a novice, and had no experience in politics. As such I do not believe that he expected the establishment to lay in wait, to teach him not to tread on them as he came into office. That fact is irrefutable. In fact, I just heard Chuck Schumer on air bragging that "maybe now MR Trump has learned his lesson."

His own party was complicit in the resistance, and they have undercut him mercilessly and shamefully. The people spoke and they counted that as nothing. Paul Ryan never took up any bill to fund the wall, only chicken feed to fix existing fencing.

Chapter and verse notwithstanding, I can't cozy up to the business as usual treasons which have become daily fare in DC. The establishment have rejected the people's choice and I don't like it.