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Lead-in to the story from Media Matters — here in part:

Maybe it won’t be this time. Maybe it won’t be next time. But at some point in the future, it seems inevitable that President Donald Trump will take the advice of his supporters at FOX News and shut down the federal government.

Background: With the September 30 expiration of government funding swiftly approaching, the Senate just voted 93-7 to pass a carefully negotiated short-term spending bill that would keep the federal lights on until December 7, after the midterm elections.

The legislation gives all parties some of what they want but none of them all of what they want – including the president, as it does not provide the funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border that he has demanded.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) portrayed the bill as a breakthrough, evidence that the Senate (in his words): “Is getting its appropriations process back on track.”

The House of Representatives is expected to take up the legislation next week, raising hopes that federal funding could be swiftly secured.

But then Trump president tuned in to watch his fav TV show: FOX news.

First in line was Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), one of the handful of Republicans to opposed the legislation. 

He did again on FOX & Friends, which is Trump’s go-to morning news source.  

Then FOX host Brian Kilmeade chimed in, arguing that the lack of wall funding was “a thumb in the eye to the president.”

Minutes later, Trump, after watching the show, began to angrily tweet his own displeasure with the legislation. He called into question whether he will sign it or not, if it comes to his desk, or to force a shut-down of government on September 30 by not signing it (which is has threatened in the past, too).

Continue at the link for more details from Media Matters.

My 2 cents: No time in our history have we had a president aligned with either Talk Radio or FOX-type shows for the mechanics of his daily decision-making process.

Sadly, we have not seen the last of this. 

Stay tuned … and thanks for stopping by.