A man once appeared on “Fox and Friends,” the Fox News morning show, to offer his opinion about an impending government shutdown over one of America’s perennial budget battles. He had a very clear idea of the problem and how it should be solved. “Problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top,” he told the hosts. “The president is the leader, and he’s got to get everybody in a room and he’s got to lead…I really think the pressure is on the president. “

The man was Donald Trump, the year was 2013 and he was speaking about President Barack Obama.

That was then. After agreeing to meet with Democratic leaders this week to try to head off a looming shutdown, Trump decided it wasn’t worth his time. In a long Truth Social diatribe, he claimed that unless Democrats dropped

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