The last time Donald Trump shut the government down, he decided to hold negotiations with Democratic leaders in front of the cameras for all the world to see.

You remember this? He hosted Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office, and it did not really go so well for him.

If we don't get what we want one way or the other, whether it's through you, through a military, through anything you want to call, I will shut down the government. I am proud to shut down the government. I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it. The last time you shut it down, it didn't work. I will take the mantle of shutting down. I will take the mantle of shutting it down.

You heard him say a version of that several times there.

Well, Trump may have learned something from that experience.

Because when he met again with Democratic leaders to negotiate a way to avert this current

shutdown, he decided to do it in private without television cameras rolling.

And the main takeaway from the other attendees in that meeting was that Trump did not seem to really understand what was going on.

I mean, specifically, he did not understand that the whole debate was around Democrats wanting to extend subsidies to keep people's health care premiums from skyrocketing.

As Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer put it at the time, he didn't seem to know about the health care premiums from skyrocketing. As Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer put it at the time,

he didn't seem to know about the health care premiums

going up so much.

Seems to be what's all about.

And for someone who claims to be some sort of political savant,

that's pretty disconnected.

I mean, look, today in the Washington Post,

they released an analysis of who would be hit the hardest if Trump gets his way and those health care credits are allowed to expire.

And take a look at this list because it's pretty eye-opening.

Nearly a quarter of people under the age of 65 and Trump's adopted home state of Florida would see their health care premiums increase, the highest of any state.

The hardest hit states after Florida are Texas and Georgia, followed by Mississippi, Utah,

South Carolina, and Alabama, which of course are all states that Donald Trump won in the

last election.

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