[DouglasKC]

Apparently Trump was the only one within 100 miles of the White House who knew that the political optics of a "government shutdown" at Christmas time would have been awful for him.

I think that would be the best time. Nobody would be paying attention and hardly anyone would care.

[Alberta's Child]

The report I heard this morning from a local radio host who knows Trump personally is that the Trump team decided that the optics of him spending Christmas at Mar-A-Lago while his Secret Service detail was working on “suspended pay” duty would have been a disaster.