One good way to make sure people know it's you holding the government hostage is to make a primetime speech containing your ransom demands.
Pay for this thing I promised you would be free or your national parks and public servants get it.
FIRST EXCERPT FROM TRUMP'S WALL SPEECH RELEASED: 
Of course, we should remember that Mitch McConnell could end this shutdown in a few minutes.
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Even if Trump shuts down his shutdown to try to break the Constitution and go around Congress to get a wall no one needs, as @johnastoehr suggests, remember this hostage taking happened because the Republican Senate let it.
