Trump Cancels Thanksgiving

He's lost the shutdown fight, but wants to starve kids anyway.

NOTE: The Friday Brief is off today. I’m turning in a first draft of my book today, and I’ve been writing like a madman for the last month. This piece was in my head when I woke up this morning, though, and I wanted to share it with you. I appreciate you all, and thank you for your patience.

“Donald Trump cancelled Thanksgiving.”

There, Democrats. Have it. Use it. Run with it. I know you’ll likely produce a bloodless, 500-page briefing book on SNAP, but real talk is better. “Starving kids” is better than “the fiscal and health-impacts of the discontinuation of 7 CFR 273 programmatic efforts to ameliorate food insecurity.”

Do I have to do everything for you, Chuck and Hakeem?

Here’s the ugly truth the House GOP can smell but won’t say out loud: they’ve already lost the shutdown, because Trump cancelled Thanksgiving.

They lost it the minute Trump turned the federal government into a hostage for his own vanity, and as a protection from the release of the Epstein files.

They lost it again when reality showed up with receipts; polls, long lines at food banks, missed paychecks, grounded flights, and, coming soon to an aisle near you, the SNAP freeze that wallops retailers from Walmart to your neighborhood Publix.

This isn’t 5D chess. It’s 1D cruelty dressed up as strategy, and it’s detonating in their faces. Even Little Mike Johnson, Trump’s latest meatbot who obviously finds self-abnegation and public embarrassment arousing, can’t hold it together too much longer.