On Wednesday, Chief of Staff John Kelly emerged from the White House to check on his shadow and let everyone know that Donald Trump had realized that building a giant concrete barrier along America’s southern border was, and always had been, a profoundly stupid idea.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told a caucus of Hispanic lawmakers on Wednesday that he has persuaded President Trump that building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is unnecessary, signaling a possible reversal on the key campaign promise.

Kelly demonstrated his Trump management skills by saying that some of Trump’s views were “not fully informed” rather than rolling his eyes and declaring that the whole idea of the wall was Trump’s real “cognitive test.” Instead, Kelly stated that Trump’s wall proposal had been part of a campaign, and that during a campaign all candidates make statements that aren’t ready for prime time. However, since taking office, the impracticality of building a concrete barrier from sea to vicious sea, had become obvious.

”This president, if you’ve looked what he’s done, he has changed a number of things.”

But then Trump got up, saw what had been said, and hurried to let everyone know that this is still the winter of our discontent.

x The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it. Parts will be, of necessity, see through and it was never intended to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, wastelands or tough rivers or water..... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018

Never changing. Never evolving. Never learning a damn thing. Trump 2020.