CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Despite previously unfruitful negotiations during the last round of shutdown talks, President Donald Trump says he’s ripe to reopen the government — urging party leaders to return to Washington and vote for a wall, or barrier, or whatever they wish to call it — even ‘peaches’…Trump’s comments came shortly after Congress adjourned until Monday [1-14-19] without an agreement between Democrats and Trump to reopen the federal government over a standoff on border wall funding. Prior to adjourning, the Democratic-led House approved funding for the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies impacted by the partial government shutdown. But the measure was expected to be vetoed by Trump. Trump told reporters at the roundtable that he is still open to declaring a national emergency over building a wall at the southern border, but made clear he would ‘rather not,’ calling it an ‘easy way out.'”
–Maegan Vazquez, “Trump says you can call his wall ‘peaches’ for all he cares,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, January 11, 2019 4:51 pm