The “Trump choked” narrative regarding the wall payment must have been the DNC-approved talking point because every liberal and cuck-servative was regurgitating it all over social media all night and this morning.
It’s a ridiculous talking point. The really important aspect is building the wall. Who pays for it is secondary. Trump knows how to negotiate, and politics is really just negotiating on a large scale.
When negotiating, rule one is to always ask for more than what you really want or realistically expect to get. That way you can back down a bit and still get what is really important, and at the same time the other side doesn’t feel like they got screwed and will be more accepting of the result.
Trump did this brilliantly. He has both Mexico and the MSM essentially accepting that the wall will be built. If he caved on the issue of who pays, so what? The wall gets built and that was the important issue to Trump. If the left and their MSM toadies want to focus on the payment issue, that just means Trump won this negotiation.