NYT political analyst: ‘Diminished’ Trump is hiding from shutdown mess ‘holed up in the White House’

On Saturday, New York Times political examiner Jeremy Peters said that President Trump is enabling himself and his office to be "reduced" in significance as the president spends the administration shutdown emergency "stayed in the White House." 


Dwindles said that the vital gatherings are "not imparting" with each other and need to quit "yelling at each other from the Senate floor." 

"Strangely, the president appears to be to some degree decreased all through this whole procedure," said Peters. "He's some person that holds himself up as an ace arbitrator, yet he's been to a great extent undetectable. He hasn't created an impression, he hasn't showed up in broad daylight." 

"He's been squatted in the White House as the greater part of this unfurls on Capitol Hill," Peters said. 

The New York Times said Sunday that Trump spent the greater part of Saturday disregarding the emergency and watching old recordings of himself destroying then-President Barack Obama amid the 2013 shutdown. 


The president is purportedly irritated that he has been compelled to miss a dark tie pledge drive at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort and accuses the shutdown mess for keeping him in Washington.