After President Donald Trump announced his decision, Fox’s Lou Dobbs said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “whipped the president of the United States.”
President Donald Trump reportedly called one of his favorite television hosts, Lou Dobbs of Fox Business Network, for his views on the shutdown negotiations before agreeing to temporarily open government Friday, without the border wall funding he had demanded.
Trump was “angry” with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats’ refusal to heed to his demands and called friends, including Dobbs, to get their feedback about the negotiations, two White House officials in tune with the talks, but not allowed to discuss the matter publicly, told The Washington Post in a report published Sunday.
The president also reportedly pressed Pat Cipollone, who is leading the White House Counsel’s Office in preparing drafts for a national emergency declaration, for guidance about legal repercussions that could follow. Trump spent a significant amount of time on Thursday night reviewing the declaration drafts while watching shutdown coverage on TV, according to the two officials.
