Nothing Donald Trump says or does is ever completely surprising, given his refusal to acknowledge any standards of consistency, predictability, or accountability to objective reality. But sometimes his timing is really odd, and that’s the case with his decision to repeat a previously rejected demand that Congress entirely abolish the statutory national-debt limit.

When Trump originally made this demand back in December, it was like a hand grenade tossed into a room full of gunpowder. Congress (with the Democrats still controlling the Senate and the White House) was in the middle of a bipartisan struggle to prevent a government shutdown with a stopgap spending bill that many conservatives disliked. Asking the fiscal hawks of the House Freedom Caucus to accept a debt-limit abolition (

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