But it’s a high-risk strategy, and when it falters, it falters badly. It depends on either the ability to continuously get the necessary pieces in place through intelligence and hard work, or to be endlessly lucky. He doesn’t have the former ability, and luck doesn’t last forever.

He has mismanaged his immigration strategy badly; he is out of luck and out of good choices. The momentum and the opportunity to build his crazy wall that might have been there in his first two years are over now. So now he sits there at his desk, talking to a camera and trying hard to sound like a normal president saying abnormal things. But his heart wasn’t in it, not because of the heartlessness of his idea, but because he had no momentum. How did he get himself into this bind? Trump loves high risk, that’s how. King of Debt, you know. He is fearless not because of bravery but because he lacks common sense and normal caution. So too bad for him.