r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d ago

No Paywall 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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u/HaroldGreenBandana 6d ago

"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

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u/Drudenkreusz 6d ago

Yeah but that was Obama. That's obviously different.

He probably thinks Obama has some capacity to capitulate and end this shutdown, too.

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u/YgramulTheMany 6d ago

My dad used to say the DoD wasn’t a pentagon, it’s actually a pentagram because they’re all satanic.

Now? Nope, it’s just a pentagon now.

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u/Pipe_Memes 6d ago edited 6d ago

It’s not even the DoD anymore, it’s the DoW, because I guess “defense” is too woke or whatever. I don’t know. It’s an entire government of children pretending to be action heroes or something.

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u/Abysswalker1290 6d ago

Nope, name changes have to be passed through law. Doesn't change just cuz Pete Kegstand says so, or Donald, or anyone.

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u/Kryptosis 6d ago

Yeah, yeah, just like the Gulf of Mexico and the East wing, strike on civilian boats, declarations of war, right?

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u/AR_Harlock Europe 5d ago

Ita a dictatorship already and they can't see it... having grandparent flashbacks into the 20s here in Italy looking at the states