It is four days until Christmas and government workers are unsure of when their next paycheck will come thanks to Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh’s public pressure of President Donald Trump and his willingness to allow them to influence him. Using his endless scare tactics to insist that immigrants are dangerous criminals coming to rape and kill everyone, Trump will almost definitely shutdown the government to get his way on $5 billion in funding for the border wall.
With a multitude of crises looming over Trump’s presidency, he badly needs to be able to say that he’s accomplished something, even if the majority of Americans do not want what he’s promised. A total of 57 percent of those polled say that they want Trump to compromise on the border wall to avoid shutting down the government as opposed to only 36 percent who want Trump to stick to his guns and hurt American workers and the American economy to keep brown people from entering our country.
Trump is trying to invoke the GOP’s favorite hero, Ronald Reagan, to convince them that there’s been a long history of support for his idea. Reagan granted amnesty to the undocumented immigrants living in the United States during his presidency and, most famously, called for tearing down a wall in Berlin between East and West Germany.
Not only will Democrats, and likely at least some Republicans, vote against the spending bill with $5 billion in wasted funding, Trump cannot pin this shutdown on them. He’s already said that he would be “proud to shut down the government” for an ineffective and unnecessary border wall. This one is totally on him.
Twitter was on fire with Trump’s multiple tweets. Read some of their comments below:
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