The billionaires own and or buy the press. So long as the billionaires want more power and money and to pull that money from the working class they have the support of the executive and judicial branch now. The most powerful branch in a republic is supposed to be the legislature. By far in my opinion. Yet right now we have gotten to the point where the executive branch may honestly be hoping for a shutdown because it only makes Congress look worse.

"They never get anything done and I can" is the image that will likely be pushed soon by this administration. The President doesn't believe in freedom of speech, press, assembly, or religion. He only believes in populism, and trying to create an authoritarian rule over people using the media to manipulate the people to make him popular regardless of people's rights getting stomped on in the process. He wants money flowing into his pockets, and everyone around him to praise him for it. He doesn't care that the money coming into his pockets is coming from working class Americans, so long as they are foolish enough to keep him in a place where he can keep making that money.