President Donald Trump put up his best reality show of his presidency so far in a negotiation on immigration. However, it shows that his back is thoroughly against the wall. The book Fire and Fury exposed him and clearly hit home — he realised that he must put all his cards on the table in order to save the day. It was a carefully staged show before the media, where he tried to refute the salient points in the book (his style of leadership and his fitness for office). He threw campaign promises and subsequent threats overboard to woo Democrats (not connecting the wall to a Daca solution; not mentioning Mexico payingl; agreeing to first solve Daca and then look at comprehensive security) something Republicans immediately objected to. He walked away from his campaign promise of a physical wall all along the border, and is now talking about only certain stretches. He practically laid his authority in the hands of politicians saying that he will sign ANY agreement agreed on between Demo...
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