The Post Most from The Washington Post Shutdown impasse: Trump heads to the Hill after Oval Office address; Fact-checking President Trump’s Oval Office address on immigration; Trump calls wall only solution to ‘growing humanitarian crisis’ at border Democracy Dies in Darkness Most popular right now As Trump appeals to nation for wall, cracks show in his GOP support The administration’s lobbying came ahead of a nationally televised speech by Trump as he weighs declaring a national emergency to build the wall. By Erica Werner, Mike DeBonis  •  Read more » Shutdown impasse: Trump heads to the Hill after Oval Office address The president and congressional Democrats are trying to shore up their positions as a standoff continues over funding a border wall. By John Wagner  •  Read more »   Fact Checker • Analysis Fact-checking President Trump’s Oval Office address on immigration Over the course of his nine-minute speech, Trump painted a misleading and bleak picture of the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border. By Salvador Rizzo  •  Read more »   Trump calls wall only solution to ‘growing humanitarian crisis’ at border The president portrayed undocumented immigrants as murderers, rapists and drug smugglers in a dark Oval Office address. Democrats said he was stoking fear and governing by “temper tantrum.” By Philip Rucker, Felicia Sonmez  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Act Four • Opinion Trump tried to play a normal president on television. The result was very strange. Watching Trump mouth platitudes he can't possibly believe isn't comforting. It's horrifying. By Alyssa Rosenberg  •  Read more »   Opinion Trump won the night. Schumer and Pelosi lost. If this keeps up, it will be the Democrats who will be blamed for the government shutdown. By Marc Thiessen  •  Read more »   PowerPost • Analysis The Daily 202: The new Russia revelations are more consequential than Trump’s newsless immigration speech Paul Manafort allegedly sharing polling with a Russian in 2016 raises a slew of new questions. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   Morning Mix ‘If you watch it, you will want to hurt yourself’: Late-night mocks Trump’s prime-time address “Congratulations, Mr. President. Glad you interrupted our lives so you could read your tweets out loud,” Stephen Colbert quipped on CBS. By Allyson Chiu  •  Read more »     Analysis Trump used the Oval Office to try to create a border crisis His prime-time address marked an escalation of a battle in which he has struggled to gain an advantage. By Dan Balz  •  Read more »   Rosenstein expects to leave Justice Dept. if new attorney general is confirmed The deputy attorney general has told people he expects to depart if William P. Barr is confirmed, though there is no timeline or concrete plans in place. By Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett  •  Read more »   Opinion Trump is losing on his own terms The president is backing himself into an ever-smaller corner. By Stephen Stromberg  •  Read more »     Also Popular in Politics   The Fix • Analysis Ocasio-Cortez called Trump a racist. The White House response may have proved her point. Legislation can’t make up for the president’s remarks. By Eugene Scott  •  Read more » How a little-known Democratic firm cashed in on the wave of midterm money ‘Chuck and Nancy’ present a united front in challenging Trump on border wall Analysis | Your fact-checking cheat sheet for Trump’s immigration address Liz Cheney says Christian Bale blew his chance to play ‘a real superhero’ — her father   Also Popular in Opinions   It was good to hear from the president The only thing we have to fear is Those People On The Other Side of the Border, as FDR said. By Alexandra Petri  •  Read more » One more Russian contact: Here’s why it matters Why should I support a political party that is marginalizing me out of existence? Trump’s nothingburger speech Did Trump’s Oval Office address change anything? ADVERTISEMENT Also Popular in Local   Capital Weather Gang Meteorologist fired for using racist slur for Martin Luther King Jr. says it was an accident Jeremy Kappell said his on-air flub was a “simple misunderstanding” and not about race. 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