Telenko continues, these shutdowns are usually a game a chicken between Congressional and executive branches virtue signaling to their political base until media and public protest allow Congress to "compromise" on spending more money with limited blowback. But this time is different. President Trump's Xanatos Gambit political-media strategy tree looks like his 2015 GOP primary campaign from when he ran a high energy offensive campaign of free media by outrageous statements that sucked all the air time out of his GOP opponent's campaigns and established his street cred of a billionaire who cares more for the common man than D.C. politicians via anti-open borders and protecting Americans from illegal immigrants and Muslim terrorists.
Now, his fast food hamburgers served at the White House and grounding Pelosi's congressional junkets on military transports during a government shut down, and now and his proposal speech are all similar to that previous Xanatos Gambit framework. President trump is keeping the offensive so House Democrats and media cannot get off a shot over the shutdown without covering what Trump says and does. While simultaneously defining Democrats as being interested only in the perks of government power and not interested in the public good.
Search as you might through your lessons of Greek mythology, you will not find Xanatos Gambit there.
It's from a Disney Saturday cartoon of the 1990s named "Gargoyles" Xanatos is a character voiced by Star Trek's Jonathan Frakes loosely based on Donald Trump himself.
David Xanatos
Many more drawn out examples given at the Chicago Boys link above. And more analysis at American Thinker.
Both places re-publish this diagram seen on TV Tropes drawn from the Saturday cartoon and using its language.
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Never mess with the God Emperor of the Cherry Blossom Throne.
He always wins.
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