Late Wednesday night, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) emerged from a meeting with President Trump and quickly announced that they had reached a deal to legislatively reinstate President Obama’s executive amnesty. That deal, they said, would not include funding for a border wall:

This sent Trump’s base into spasms of apoplexy. Here’s Breitbart’s headline:

And Ann Coulter, author of In Trump We Trust:

And even Sean Hannity, who initially blamed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), but acknowledged that such a deal would be awful:

Initially, this led the White House to deny Schumer’s and Pelosi’s report; instead, they said that such issues had been discussed, but no deal had been reached.

Then Trump woke up.

This morning, he tweeted a bunch of leftist talking points about immigration, as well as an admission that he wasn’t going to touch DACA in order to pry funding for the wall from Democrats:

Then he confirmed the same thing in front of the press:

When asked by the press pool about “amnesty,” he shook his head and said, “DACA.”

Oh.

Well then.

Trump’s newfound enthusiasm for replacement fencing isn’t quite the “BUILD THE WALL” blarghing we heard at every single rally for months. And his talk about DREAMers who apparently came over as an act of love by their parents sounds an awful lot like You! Know! Who!

The question is whether Trump’s base will care. Early indicators say meh:

The myth of MAGA 43-D underwater upside-down Hungry Hungry Hippos continues.

So, will Trump get away with this deal? Of course he will. Trump isn’t wrong that McConnell and Ryan are fine with a clean DACA bill. And they’re particularly fine with it coming from Trump, who would normally be their source of angst. But this could throw a barrier between Breitbart World and Trump, who isn’t used to hearing criticism from his Bestest Friends In The Whole Wide World. Which could actually push Trump even further to the Left. The man isn’t known for his grace in hearing criticism.

The irony, of course: Ryan and McConnell, the supposed ultimate cucks, stood up to Obama’s demands for executive amnesty better than Trump did.

But at least we’ll always have Gorsuch.