Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: “If they don’t vote, that’s their problem”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/

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  2. Somtimes I’m convinced Trump has no idea what he’s talking about

  3. He really wants to cut off or raise your health insurance costs. ☹

  4. More BS from Dear Leader, and CBS just trots it out like it’s truth.

    Republicans could pass their bill tomorrow. Of course, they’d have to come back from their 6 week vacations, and Johnson would have call the session, and swear in the Rep from AZ. They don’t want any of that. They also don’t want to pass this bill with every Dem voting against it, because they can’t even pretend it was bipartisan when it destroys millions of lives.

  5. “If there is a shutdown … I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He’s the one that has to get people together.”
    -Donald Trump, 2011

    “When they talk about the government shutdown, they’re going to be talking about the president of the United States, who the president was at that time. They’re not going to be talking about who was the head of the House, the head of the Senate, who’s running things in Washington. So I really think the pressure is on the president.”
    -Donald Trump, 2013

  6. I think after Dems win this Tuesday he may change his tune

  7. Why the fuck should the Democrats “give in” to batshit crazy and fucking evil Republican bullshit? That makes no sense. The Democrats should stand firm and oppose the fascist MAGA regime.

  8. I admit to saying this from a position where the shutdown is not affecting me, but I think Democrats should view that statement as a challenge rather than a threat.

    Democrats should run non-stop on every foot-in-mouth statement he has ever made on the subject, from blaming shutdowns on the president, to him telling Republicans they can end the shutdown whenever they want (by nuking the filibuster).

    It’s a *Republican* shutdown.

  9. I hope Democrats keep holding the line.

    I’m strapped in for this to last for 2 more months.

  10. He also Said that he Pardoned a Person who did grave harm to the U.S.A security because “He didn’t know him but heard Biden did it.” This guy is pure $hit..

  12. The gal hasn’t been voted in. Shutdown coming to a month, this guy is the biggest piece of sh*t ever. The people that voted for this don’t deserve kindness. They WANT you to suffer.

  13. “It could lead to people starving, but it’s a sacrifice I’m prepared to make.”

  15. Watching the CBS interview, it was like they were scared of making him angry by pushing back on anything he said.  

  17. Every damn day I look more forward to a worldwide party when this sack of shit kicks the bucket.

  18. Another paycheck missed will have a lot of Feds (again) looking for new jobs… Dude is destroying public service and research programs. Super sad. First time my life has been catastrophically impacted by national politics. As a well-educated white guy from a very Republican state in the Midwest, farmers are disappointed and I wish the exec could do better.

  19. Republicans:

    “Choose: their healthcare, their food, or both.”

    It’s like a gore movie forcing a father to pick who dies between his wife and child.

  20. >”The Republicans are voting almost unanimously to end it, and the Democrats keep voting against ending it,” Mr. Trump said. “You know, they’ve never had this. This has happened like 18 times before. The Democrats always voted for an extension, always saying, ‘Give us an extension, we’ll work it out.'”

    >Without federal subsidies, the cost of insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, could double. Mr. Trump called Obamacare “terrible” and said “it’s bad health care at far too high a price.”

    >”We should fix that. Fix it. And we can fix it with the Democrats,” he said “All they have to do is let the country open and we’ll fix it.”

    >Mr. Trump has talked about fixing the health care system for years, including during his first term in office.

    >”We almost did it. We were one vote short,” he said.

    >That was in 2017, when Senate Republicans failed by one vote to partially repeal Obamacare. There has never been an agreed-upon plan to replace it, and Mr. Trump did not offer a plan in his interview with 60 Minutes.

  21. The Republicans in Congress have abandoned their post and their constituents. They don’t care if you get a paycheck. They’re being paid. They don’t care if you and your children starve. All that matters is that the white house continues to be demolished, the Epstein files remain hidden, and your health insurance premiums double. 

    The Republicans in the US government have the presidency, the Supreme Court, the House, and the Senate. And they want you to believe democrats are at fault for the NON-FUNCTIONING government. 

    Two trillion in debt has been added to the American people. The Department of Education has been disbanded, all social security numbers were leaked, social welfare programs have closed, funding for science has been revoked and a secret police is brutalizing American cities and suburbs.

  22. I’m watching bits of his interview with 60 Minutes but have to keep turning it off, because he’s so wildly delusional that he’s clearly not operating in the same reality as the other 8 billion of us.

  23. Fuck this asshole. He is not a President, just an asshole with enablers.

  24. He’s really the only president in my lifetime who doesn’t even pretend to govern for the whole country.

  25. The Democrats need to add restoring the SNAP and foodbank cuts from earlier this year to their list of demands. The GOP opened that door, now the Dems need to capitalize on it and push to restore those funds!

  26. For someone who claims to being so adept at negotiating, he sure sucks at it.

  28. This only benefits Trump.

    SCOTUS is nearly eating out of his hand. The Legislative GOP has already ceded power to him. Shutting down the government only furthers his desire to be the king he wants to be.

    Democrats need to sweep 2026 and their voters need to escort them into office in person.

  29. When one party is in the majority, they have to make concessions to the minority party if they need their vote to pass something. It’s not the responsibility of the minority party to rubber stamp everything the majority party wants.

  31. Bro, it’s your problem and your party’s problem too.

  32. “This ends when we take everyone’s Healthcare away” evil prick.

  33. I hope everyone remembers that in 2019 he refused to end the shutdown unless he got money for his border wall. Democrats (and some Republicans) refused to give in, and when new representatives (elected in Nov 2018) were seated in January the Democrats took control of the house. They then passed a short stopgap and then passed an appropriations bill. It included a small amount of money for the wall, and cleared both the house and senate. Trump wasn’t satisfied but didn’t have the votes to override a veto so the shutdown ended. Then he declared a national emergency to fund his wall.

    So if we haven’t learned it by now… Trump doesn’t negotiate. He doesn’t deal. He’s just tries to pressure everyone into giving him what he wants. And when they don’t give in, he just goes around them.

  34. Trump: I will starve millions of people because Democrats won’t let us take healthcare from millions of people. What an ass.

  35. So Republicans NEED votes from Democrats but are refusing to do anything to get it.

  37. This is why it’s all that much more important that Democrats don’t give in. Makes him look weak AF.

  38. Let me understand this, He wants the democrats to just give in and reopen the government and for them to believe the Radical Right GOP will have a debate on extending healthcare subsidies even though they have been blocking them out for everything that’s being proposed. Knowing that they are lying about including the democrats I’d say keep the government shutdown until something bipartisan is passed.
    The GOP is keeping the government shutdown and Trump is the King Looser in charge!

  39. Trump admitting Republicans will never act like adults.

    And partying and golfing while the shutdown is happening. He truly does not give af about anyone but himself

    We all know what Americans are waiting for, and we’re not going to tolerate any talk about “decorum” when the rest of us party

  40. Wasn’t it Trump who previously said *”I actually think the president would be blamed” (2011),* that a government shutdown *”falls on the president’s lack of leadership,”* and that *”a shutdown means the president is weak?” (2013)*

  41. Hey Nora O’Donnell, you are a terrible interviewer. You weren’t good as a host, and now you bring your mediocre, fake tough journalism to 60 Minutes. 

    You were not open ended in your questions and ready with pointed follow-ups. You gave up easily when being talked over. Even when you do push back – you still just went with whatever he was telling you. “It’s the Dems fault”. You even glossed over what the 2017 vote on the ACA was, and it wasn’t a partial repeal! It would’ve completely neutered the ACA, letting it become null and void! 

    And near the end your interview, knowing this president is not busy negotiating the shutdown, and knowing that this president is always acting in bad faith and/or self interest, why the fuck do you lead your question with – I know your limited on time and I want to be sensitive to that – The fuck! He’s not doing shit and you know it, yet you still act like he’s busy being an actual president! 

    Fuck you Nora. You are helping whitewash the cynicism and cruelty with your own brand of mediocrity.

  42. Leveraging the lives and livelihood of MILLIONS of people to become a dictator, but PLEASE PLEASE remind me how conservatives claim that this man actually cares about anything but himself and power. Idk how any MAGA person thinks that somehow people will just wake up one day and be like “you know what, MAGA was right, he’s not such a bad guy after all”.

  43. Mike Johnson canceled the most recent vote. This administration hates Americans.

  44. The larger problem here is that he is saying that people in blue states or regions are not to be represented in HIS government. That’s not how this works.

  45. Trump managed to get the Chinese to buy our soy beans, you know, like they were doing before all his tariff bullshit. All he gave up was our most advanced computer chips. What a genius.

    Mr. Art of the Deal will fold like he always does.

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