The staged protests didn't work.
"Attack immigrants" didn't work.

He knew he'd better come up with something.

Wait . . . a movie . . .Wag the Dog!

(For Trump, a manufactured crisis works better than a real one)

(me rolling my eyes)

It definitely defeats his purpose when he tweets "I may have to start a war!" and then immediately "wag the dog" is trending.

I personally would never feed into that by retweeting WAG THE DOG. https://twitter.com/tryingoptimism/status/1252957408864940034

Most people (a majority) were never really fooled. https://twitter.com/gbragger/status/1252960902527270912

His support is dropping again.

He had a peak right after the crisis started.

This 538 graph tells me he has a floor of about 36% approval and a ceiling of about 45% approval.

https://twitter.com/Saira_Fa/status/1252968389380841473
I have a teenager so I know how to do it.

To be completely effective, the eye-roll must be followed by a deep groan and then a level stare.