Yes, Trump Said Presidents Should be Blamed for Government Shutdowns
Senate Democrats are circulating a new video highlighting Donald Trump’s past comments blaming the sitting president for government shutdowns, a sharp contrast to his current attempts to shift responsibility to Congress. Shared by Senator Patty Murray, the supercut stitches together clips of Trump from 2011 and 2013 interviews in which he insisted that the president must lead during funding crises.
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In one segment, Trump declared, “You have to get everybody in a room. You have to be a leader. The president has to lead.” In another, he argued that if a shutdown occurred, “it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States.”
The compilation underscores a consistent theme in Trump’s earlier rhetoric: that the White House bears ultimate responsibility for averting shutdowns. Democrats are seizing on these past statements as negotiations stall in Washington, framing Trump’s current position of blaming and attacking his political opposition as hypocritical.
By resurfacing the old footage, they aim to remind voters that Trump once openly placed accountability on the president—a message at odds with his recent efforts to pin blame elsewhere
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What a punkass!
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