a president who not only describes himself as a master negotiator someone who's able to able to get really whatever he wants out of any situation but someone who's tendency in his tactics we have as we've seen over the past several years that he's been in the public eye he tends to escalate a situation in order to get what he wants rather than backing down as we've seen him do here now there's several elements to this one of which is the polling right now very much puts the blame for this whole shutdown situation that we've been talking about for five weeks now on the president as much as he is trying to shunt the blame often to the democrats he appeared in a nationwide primetime address talking about why he had done this and why we needed money for this border wall he is still losing this fight and even though he has this tactic of digging in in order to get what he wants the democrats