“He offered them the best deal they were ever going to get and they said no, just as he expected.”
What happens now is that Trump the Negotiator slowly (or, perhaps, not so slowly) will turn the screws on them. March 5 is the day when deportations of the DACA illegals can start...and if we get there without a legislative fix, I guarantee that Trump WILL start it - by ORDERING DHS to do so. Every day that passes, more will be tossed out...which means that even before that process starts, the Dems will be back at Trump’s feet BEGGING for a deal. That deal will not be as good as this last one...and they’ll run away all pouty about it. They’ll need to do that a couple of times before they get the message and cave (which will lose them TONS of their hard-core, nut-job, supporters). That cave will result in the Wall going up, the end of chain migration, the end of the visa lottery program and a significant cut in the number of “Dreamers” amnestied, or allowed to become citizens.
Trump is not a fool - he likes to win, and fixes the chess board so that he does.