Donald and Robert and Chuck and Nancy: Washington will be must-see TV in 2019
WASHINGTON — Living alongside the United States has been likened to sleeping with a twitching, grunting elephant — a political animal that’s now on the verge of a full-blown, delirious fever dream.
So strap in, Canada. To borrow a phrase from Bette Davis, it’s going to be a bumpy night.
For proof, look no further than this week’s breathtaking Oval Office confrontation between Donald Trump and two people sure to be among the most painful thorns in the president’s side in 2019: presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — the leader of the Democratic majority that takes over in January — and her Senate minority counterpart, Chuck Schumer.
In full view of a phalanx of reporters and TV cameras, they argued loudly and at length about Trump’s demand for $5 billion in taxpayer dollars for his famous southern border wall, a condition over which the president declared he would let the U.S. government grind to a funding halt.