The Oval Office gaggle wasn't supposed to change anything. It was supposed to be content President Donald Trump and his newly elected progressive foil, each performing the roles cable news has spent months codifying. Conservative media had already settled on its narrative. The White House press corps arrived expecting friction, spectacle, maybe even fireworks. What they got instead was a different story not about conflict, but about alignment.
"They're sitting on two million empty lots," he wrote. "I'm asking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to get Big Homebuilders going and, by so doing, help restore the American Dream."