OrangeVerse XXI: How Far Away?

This morning, in advance of a meeting with Republican and Democratic Congressional leaders, the poet in chief offered this warm welcome:

In response, "Chuck and Nancy" released a statement of their own:

Given that the president doesn't see a deal between Democrats and the White House, we believe the best path forward is to continue negotiating with our Republican counterparts in Congress instead. If the president, who already said earlier this year that 'out country needs a good shutdown' isn't interested in addressing the difficult year end agenda, we'll work with those Republicans who are, as we did in April.

And then, after a "love fest" with Republicans, there was poetry.

So Far Away

...Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi

did not show up

for our meeting today.

I'm not really

that surprised.

We have a lot of differences.

They're weak

on crime,

They're weak

on illegal immigration. 

They want

the illegal folks

to come pouring 

into our border

and a lot of problems

are being caused, 

although we've stopped it

to a large extent as much

as you can without

the law,

which we're going to get.

Before this meeting and

before this missile launch,

they've been weak

on military. In terms

of spending they're

very hard to get

the military -- they 

want it for a lot

of other things but

the military is always secondary

to them. The military

to me is number one...

It Would Be So Fine to See Your Face at My Door

They want tax 

increases and we want

major tax decreases so

they decided not to show up.

They've been 

all talk and they've been

no action and now it's

ever worse now it's

not even talk so

they're not showing up

to the meeting.

It Doesn't Help to Know that You're So Far Away

Well, we are very

far apart

because our views on crime

and our views on immigration

and the military - 

so many are different.

But a lot of things

 have happened, even

over the last two hours

with respect to the 

missile launch.

We want

our military funded and

we want

it funded now.

It's going to be

bigger, better, stronger

-- it already is -- 

than ever before. But

we want

to get going on that

now. So that

is a difference

in all fairness

from this morning

when I told them that

we're way, way

far

away.

Nothing Else to do but Close My Mind

If you look

at the military we

want strong funding

for the military. They don't.

So many things.  As an example

they want

high taxes

We want

to cut taxes.

We're going

to cut taxes.

We're going

to reform.

We're going

to simplify.

They want

 high taxes

We want

low taxes.

...nothing to them

is important other

than raising taxes.

That's the

only thing they like

doing is

raising taxes.

Cue the Applause

Thank you all very much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.