[jetpilot]

First, I repeat - I'm not faulting Trump for failing to get funding for a border wall because I never expected that he would and I voted for him anyway. I am faulting him for poor timing and pursuing a strategy that had no reasonable chance of succeeding.

Next, let's use your number and recall the conditions that Trump faced when he entered office in January, 2017. He had just won a national election. Thanks, in part to Trump's coattails, Republicans had gained Senate seats.

As you said, Congress's approval rating at that time hovered around 12 percent. If facing a Congress with a historically low approval rating was not a good time to exercise the power of the presidency to get his top legislative agenda item enacted, then what would you consider a better time to do so?

When Congress ceases to be so thoroughly corrupt and inept and have far less Republicans who are for open borders. They don't care about the 12% favorability rating as a body, they just care about getting re-elected. Trump nor anyone else can get those fools to do something they simply don't want to do. But watch him work around them and get it done anyway, which will make them look even more pathetic and hence dislike him even more.