Trump Doubles Down On Shutdown Threat: ‘If We Close Down The Country, I Will Take It’

on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after signing H.R. 390, the "Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018" in the Oval Office at the White House on December 11, 2018... WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after signing H.R. 390, the "Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018" in the Oval Office at the White House on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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In yet another statement from the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump reiterated that he would be willing to shut down the government over congressional funding for his border wall.

“I don’t mind having the issue of border security on my side,” he said, adding later: “If we close down the country, I will take it, because we’re closing it down for border security, and I think I win that every single time.”

That followed a similar statement from the President during an Oval Office meeting with Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in which Trump asserted: “I am proud to shut down the government over border security.”

In his second Oval Office appearance Tuesday, during a signing ceremony for the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act, Trump said falsely of Democrats: “Most of them want open borders.”

Trump also inflated the threat of “communicable diseases” from migrants and asylum seekers at the border, by now a common scare tactic.

“One of the problems that people don’t talk about, you have a tremendous medical problem coming into our country, communicable disease, tremendous problems,” Trump said.

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  1. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Be sure and shut it down before Christmas.

    And do be proud of it.

  2. Avatar for meri meri says:

    Dear Democrats: Remember that there is always going to be another hostage. Give in once, and you may as well go home.

  3. Unfortunately for Trump, there is no Viagra to raise border walls…

  4. Of course, the biggest disease threat is all the anti-vaxxers that are already here… But don’t let facts get in the way.

  5. “If we close down the country, I will take it…I think I win that every single time.”

    Dunning and Kruger were optimists.

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