Trump Cancels Thanksgiving

“Donald Trump cancelled Thanksgiving.”

There, Democrats. Have it. Use it. Run with it. I know you’ll likely produce a bloodless, 500-page briefing book on SNAP, but real talk is better. “Starving kids” is better than “the fiscal and health-impacts of the discontinuation of 7 CFR 273 programmatic efforts to ameliorate food insecurity.”

Do I have to do everything for you, Chuck and Hakeem?

Here’s the ugly truth the House GOP can smell but won’t say out loud: they’ve already lost the shutdown, because Trump canceled Thanksgiving.

They lost it the minute Trump turned the federal government into a hostage for his own vanity, and as a protection from the release of the Epstein files.

They lost it again when reality showed up with receipts; polls, long lines at food banks, missed paychecks, grounded flights, and, coming soon to an aisle near you, the SNAP freeze that wallops retailers from Walmart to your neighborhood Publix.

This isn’t 5D chess. It’s 1D cruelty dressed up as strategy, and it’s detonating in their faces. Even Little Mike Johnson, Trump’s latest meatbot who obviously finds self-abnegation and public embarrassment arousing, can’t hold it together too much longer.

Let’s start with the scoreboard they pretend not to read.

A fresh round of national polling shows Americans continue to blame Trump and congressional Republicans … and the numbers are getting worse.

Washington Post/ABC/Ipsos finds voters pointing the finger at the Trump-GOP side by a solid margin, with independents breaking against them almost 2-1. Not, as they say in sophisticated opinion research, bueno...