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(14,293 posts) Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:10 PM Sep 2025

Trump's previous opinion on a government shut down

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Trump's previous opinion on a government shut down (Original Post) surfered Sep 2025 OP

unfortunately there does not seem to be any video/audio of him saying this. a still pic is msongs Sep 2025 #1

Fair point. There's this... surfered Sep 2025 #2

And Mitch McConnell (2011) told America, "it's a hostage that's worth ransoming" Torchlight Sep 2025 #3

msongs

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1. unfortunately there does not seem to be any video/audio of him saying this. a still pic is

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Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:06 PM

Sep 2025

not that effective IMO

surfered

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2. Fair point. There's this...

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:15 PM

Sep 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/369756-trumps-comments-blaming-obama-for-2013-government-shutdown-resurface/

And this…

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/19/heres-what-trump-said-about-presidential-leadership-during-2013-government-shutdown

Torchlight

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3. And Mitch McConnell (2011) told America, "it's a hostage that's worth ransoming"

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Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:21 PM

Sep 2025

Gonna be hard for trump and his sealions to blame Democrats for their own idea, their own intransigence, and their own consequences.

I'm sure they'll give it the old community college try, but I'm guessing the result will be as laughable as "antifa messages carved on the bullets!" was.

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