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Donald Trump continues to spiral out of control as his messaging on this shutdown is all over the place because he and Maga Mike Johnson and Senator Thune and the Republicans are responsible for it because they want to take away people's health care. It's that simple.
So Donald Trump started with posting like sombreros and weird AI, and then he moved on to just kind of threatening, I'm going to inflict pain. What an opportunity. Then yesterday, he was pretending that he was actually engaged in negotiations that weren't taking place because he and Maga Mike have ordered Republicans not even to talk to Democrats, yet alone negotiate.
And now he's back to the threatening. We will destroy the lives of federal workers. We will inflict pain, but our budget will be balanced, he says. Oh, it will be balanced. This is what he said from the Oval Office. Let's play it.
I'll be able to tell you that in four or five days if this keeps going on. If this keeps going on, it'll be substantial. And a lot of those jobs will never come back. But you're going to have a lot closer to a balanced budget, actually.
I just have to also make the observation that he looks utterly ridiculous in there. I mean, the gold everywhere. It looks cheesy. It looks gross. Everything our country should be against in poor taste as he's talking about inflicting pain on the American people.
He's running record deficit spending, hundreds of billions of dollars on masked agents, disappearing human beings in this country into concentration camps and all of his other despicable stunts. Then Donald Trump also talks about, in response to a reporter saying, well, why are you saying that you won't even give government workers their back pay if the shutdown ends? Why are you doing this?
Here, play this clip.
Why do you say some federal workers should not get their back pay? Why do you say some?
Well, you're going to have to figure that out, okay? Ask the Democrats that question.
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