BORDER/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Nancy Pelosi was on fire with her fellow Democrats. Minutes after a very public showdown with Donald Trump on Tuesday [12-11-18] over his border wall with Mexico, the House minority leader returned to the Capitol and railed against the president in a private meeting with her colleagues…Congressional Democrats are feeling smug — and actually a little excited — for the looming shutdown fight with the president after Tuesday’s Oval Office meeting. The president may have decided at the last minute to open up the entire negotiation session to the public to throw Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York off their game. But in the end, Democrats feel confident that their leaders came out ahead. Trump, Democrats argue, fell into a trap the minute he took ownership of what Pelosi has dubbed ‘the Trump shutdown.’ Absent a bipartisan agreement on Trump’s border wall, about a quarter of the government will run out of money on Dec. 21. But instead of finger-pointing, as Republicans and Democrats usually do during spending standoffs, Trump said he wanted to close the government and said he wouldn’t even try to pass the blame.”

–Rachael Bade and Sarah Ferris, “Pelosi privately disses Trump’s manhood after White House meeting,” Politico, December 11, 2018 4:11 pm