Will Trump Stay on Script?

Politico: “At last year’s speech, Trump won praise for sticking to the teleprompter. While he’s whiplashed America since then with his combative Twitter persona and reports of his blowups and ‘shithole’ remarks on immigration at West Wing meetings, Trump knows everything goes more smoothly when he stays on message.”

“With the recent shutdown, for instance, Trump stayed out of sight, only commenting via Twitter during the roughly 70 hours of the closure. That helped his party stick to its strategy of putting the blame on Democrats—something Trump hopes to continue as members of Congress try to nail down a deal on immigration and the budget before a Feb. 8 deadline.”