It was too good to be true—Trump was actually going to take the blame for something. He said that if a government shutdown occurred the blame could be put on him. But Tuesday, he dropped the demand that the government fork over $5 billion to build a wall along the Mexican border.

The old artful dodger reversed his demand and now members of Congress can proceed with hammering out a bipartisan agreement to keep the government up and running.

Running, too, is Trump and it will be even more difficult to get that wall built with the House being soon in the hands of Democrats. Democratic leaders stood adamantly opposed to giving Trump the money he demanded. The idea of building a wall was always a pipedream for Trump, and that dream is gone with the wind.

There have been other reversals this week, including one for Mike Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser who led the chant of “lock her up,” referring to Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign of 2016. Flynn is now facing a prison sentence. Or Michael Cohen, who once promised that he would take a bullet for Trump to show his loyalty, now claims that loyalty was blind and that he had lost his “moral compass.” And Trump, who once said that Cohen was a good man, now views him as a “rat” for cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller III.

The reversals of fortune have been coming at such a steady pace that you need a scorecard to keep up with who’s the U.N. ambassador, the secretary of the Interior, the attorney general or Trump’s chief of staff.

Trump’s political carousel seems to be spinning so fast that few can hold on, and some have chosen to leap off.

A shutdown of the government would have been disastrous and that’s something that even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell grasped. “I think a government shutdown is not a good option,” he told the press. “We’ve been down this path before and I don’t believe we’ll go down this path again.” It’s certainly not one the Democrats want to traverse. At this point it looks as though members of Congress are heeding the cry from their constituents as well as recent polls in which the majority of Americans are not in favor of a government shutdown.

Now, it appears that Trump can avoid taking the blame for something deleterious to the nation and ponder a leap on the next good thing he can take credit for.