If this is true—and given both the less-than-forthright sourcing and Trump’s propensity to change his mind in fits of pique and bluster, it quite possibly isn’t—"firestorm" would be an apt description.

President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm — and fulfill one of the president’s core campaign promises. [...] In a nod to reservations held by many lawmakers, the White House plans to delay the enforcement of the president’s decision for six months, giving Congress a window to act, according to one White House official.

According to this latest probably-intentionally-leaked “plan”, in other words, Trump would be willing to summarily deport 800,000 people brought to this country as children, a pure sop to his racist base—unless the Republican-led Congress got its act together in the next six months to stop him.

This is almost certainly either yet another trial balloon or just an attempt to be cruel and sadistic on the part of the administration for yet another day. The real plan might be this; it might be something else; it might be one thing today and another thing ten minutes after the next time Donald Trump visits the toilet. He’s been doing this for weeks.

But if it were to be true, it wouldn’t just be DACA supporters that would be furious: The Republican House would likely melt down in rage as well. He’d be dumping one of the most divisive issues for the party right into their laps, just before a midterm election season in which they are already frantically working to distance himself from Trump’s style of intentionally sadistic, pointlessly cruel “governance.”