As for Trump loyalists… well they only had a few possible routes to take. They could say “he doesn’t really mean it”, they could say “he has a point you know”, or they could say “hmm? Gun meeting? No, I didn’t hear about that, hey have you seen Black Panther?”
Yep, reading all three in comments here at FR.
Number 4 is that it was a dog and pony show and when the uni-party brings him a bill he’ll reject it just like he did with DACA.