1/19/18: On this, the 365th day of the star-crossed Trump presidency, the maestro of malfeasance does not issue a single tweet all day. This despite having tweeted 2,608 times since taking office. Has President Trump ever touched on the topic of a government shutdown before?
Let’s try a quick search of his Twitter archive. He has. On August 9, 2013, he speaks his mind for the first time – and, again, you can’t argue with CAPS: “FACT – the reason why Americans have to worry about a government shutdown is because Obama refuses to pass a budget.”
A series of thirteen related tweets followed by the end of October 2013. From Citizen Trump we learned that the shutdown was the fault of Democrats. Still, shutdowns weren’t that bad. “There have been 17 shutdowns since 1976,” Trump tweeted, “14 under Reagan and Bush with Democrat Congresses who wanted more spending.”
He does not mention the s-word (well, that s-word) again for several years. On May 2, 2017, however, he again tweets: “either [sic] elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”
As usual, Mr. Trump is
blaming everyone else.
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