President Donald Trump will address the country at 9 p.m. ET tomorrow on the issue of immigration and, presumably, the ongoing fight over a border wall that has kept the federal government shut for the past 17 days.
Bucket 2: Trump cobbles together the various half-true — and less than half-true — statistics his administration has been using to create the idea of a crisis at the border, sprinkles in some anecdotes about violence committed by people in the country illegally and, voila, a prime-time address!
(I suppose there is a third bucket where Trump uses his prime-time bully pulpit to push a specific compromise plan. But I mean, come on.)
Under either scenario, the shutdown — and the chances of it ending before it breaks a record as the longest shutdown in modern political history — gets worse.
