Trump was playing a losing hand where nothing was going to help him.
Only those who agree with is border wall/gov't shutdown - less then 30% of nation - would like what he was going to say -
the only thing he could have hoped for was a Schumer/Pelosi failure to keep the score even. And they obliged.
No one was swayed
The nation still believes what it believed before Trump's photo op.
Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
and Jane, she is a clerk