Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard

this is how it was reported in Australia :P

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-a...26-p50tsk.html

After 35 days of the shutdown, Trump has emerged with nothing to show for it. Nothing, that is, except for lower approval numbers, an angry conservative base and his reputation as a master dealmaker in tatters.

Trump's handling of the shutdown has been inept from the very beginning

… But no amount of bluff and bluster could hide the fact that this was no mere backdown. This was a humiliating surrender and a stunning display of impotence by the most powerful politician in the Western world.