President Donald Trump is trying to strike a deal on his proposed border wall, which the Republican-controlled Congress would not agree to fund during its last days.
Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin smacked Trump around in a new column about how the president has yet to understand his current predicament.
"One wondrous result of the 2018 election, we will discover, is the near-total irrelevance of Trump’s tweets. He can say whatever wacky thing he wants, throw out whatever insults he pleases," she writes, but incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi "is not going to be thrown off track or even alarmed. She takes his tweets as confirmation he is clueless and unstable."
Pelosi has so far proven herself a worthy adversary, Rubin writes, and looks ready to manage "Trump’s temper tantrums, lies and incoherence."
With statements such as mocking Trump's demand for a wall with an offer for "a beaded curtain,” Pelosi shows herself a skilled politician, Rubin argues.
"Mocking Trump and pointing out his weakness infuriate him, demoralize his cult-followers and delight her base," she writes. "None of this guarantees that Trump will govern sensibly or recognize the error(s) of his ways. To the contrary, Pelosi assumes he is unteachable. Rather, her strategy is designed to maintain Democratic unity, fracture the Republicans and demonstrate that her party is more reasonable and competent than his."
Read the column here.