CHARLIE BROWN IS DOWN!

As I mentioned last time, there was a good chance Donald Trump would refuse to work with Congress on any project—even one everybody agreed needed to be done—if the Democrats continued to investigate him for possible crimes.

A month ago he met with Congressional leaders to talk about a massive infrastructure project. They left it with Trump saying: Come back in a month and I'll have some ideas on how to fund the deal.

A month goes by, the Demos continued to press for his taxes and so forth, and Trump decided to bail. He comes into the meeting fifteen minutes late and briefly announces he will have nothing to do with those guys.

Basically, he is refusing to perform the functions of the presidency until he gets things the way he wants them.

The ball was teed up, Mr. Brown took a hopeful run at it, and Lucy yanked it out of play. As he lay on the ground, cursing his trusting nature, Lucy delivered the verdict. "You'll never work in this town again."

Trump's position is, of course, that all investigations into his activities are—by definition—invalid.

The Russia Hoax is over, and he was proved innocent. Not only can such a thing be allowed to happen again, happening once was clearly a treasonous attempt at a coup against the leadership of this wonderful country—and after Trump went to all the trouble to Make It Great Again.

Crimes against the nation! And everybody knows it!

The next step is for him to instruct his Attorney General to indict those meddling Democratic hotheads for this new and continuing insurrection. Then hang 'em all from lampposts throughout the District of Columbia as an warning to the others.

All this, of course, is designed to protect future presidents from this sort of illegal abuse. Because if it can happen to Trump, the most innocent creature ever spun out of God's glorious materials, no president is safe.

His actions are quite selfless, you see.

He's putting himself on the line for the next guy, whoever it might be. It's really very inspiring, don't you think?

HEADS UP, CHARLIE BROWN!

I see that Donald Trump met with Democratic leaders of Congress and they've all agreed to work on a two trillion dollar infrastructure bill. No word on how they're going to pay for this monumental undertaking, but they're planning to meet again in a few weeks when Trump says he will offer suggestions on financing the package.

Wow.

Because at a press conference after the midterm election Trump promised to stop working entirely with the Democrats if they refused to give up on the idea of investigating him. Now that the Mueller Report is in, and many Democrats are chomping at the bit to not only investigate the man, but to impeach the bastard forthwith, you'd think Trump would retire to Florida and stew in his radioactive juices.

But no, apparently not.

So, is the president getting ready to yank the ball away at the last moment, leaving the Dems to flutter in the breeze, stripped of their shoes and socks?

Is the man about to shout, "Psych!"

I guess time will tell.

He may even be playing fair. After all, as the 2020 campaign heats up, Trump might be thinking it would be good to at least look presidential. Except for the Rich Guy Tax Reform Bill, which many middle class folks are starting to regret, not a lot has been done by Trump's administration.

He's already said he plans to let fixing health care languish until he has the votes to make everybody pleased. (And profoundly surprised, considering the source.)

Certainly nothing else has changed. The man is surly as ever at his rallies, practically calling for the heads of all Democrats who promoted the Witch Hunt.

A failed coup, he calls it. And he seems to mean it.

Well, yeah, failed. So far...