BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RUSH LIMBAUGH ALERTED his audience on Thursday 12/20/18] that President Donald Trump ‘has gotten word to me that he is either getting funding for the border or he’s shutting the whole thing down.’ Limbaugh, like Ann Coulter, Breitbart and several Fox News hosts and guests, were uncharacteristically critical of Trump for wavering on his threat to shut down the government if he didn’t get $5 billion for his border wall…So it appears a handful of conservative hosts and commentators helped convince the president of the United States to potentially shut down the government, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees working without pay or furloughed, all in an effort to get taxpayers to fund a border wall that Trump repeatedly promised would be paid for by Mexico.”
–Michael Calderone, “Trump plays to the base — White House ‘tailspin’ — Dems plan 2020 debates,” Politico, December 20, 2018 5:31 am