President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, and he did not mince words regarding the government shutdown.
In a preview of the interview, which will air on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” this weekend, Trump reacted to the Democrats’ role in the federal government shutdown and mocked the “No Kings” protests that are popping up around the country.
Watch:
“Mr. President, do you think that the government shutdown is all about this rally that’s happening this weekend, the No King’s Rally?” the host asked the president.
“No, I mean, some people say they want to delay it for that. A king? This is not a king,” Trump sneered. “They’re saying- they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king.”
“No, but just so that Chuck Schumer could go and say I’m fighting Trump,” Bartiromo said.
“Well, Chuck is, you know, at the end of the line. He’s being beaten by everybody that they poll against him. You know what he did is he did the right thing a couple of years ago on something like this, and he got hurt by his party. I don’t think it matters to him. I think he’s just so dead that he’ll do anything,” Trump responded. “I think they could just stay out forever, just to be honest with you.”
“Now, what we’re doing is, we’re cutting Democrat programs that we didn’t want. They made one mistake. They didn’t realize that that gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans never wanted. You know, giveaways, welfare programs, et cetera. And we’re doing that. And we’re cutting them permanently. We’re cutting a $20 billion project that Schumer fought for 15 years to get, and I’m cutting the project,” he continued. “It’s gonna be dead, it’s pretty much dead right now.”
While Democrats continue to blame Republicans and Trump for keeping the government shut down, Democratic strategist James Carville warns that his party doesn’t seem interested in compromise.
“Democrats are not going to cave on this budget. Even if they wanted to, they couldn’t. There is no appetite among Democratic voters to give in. I don’t think there’s any appetite among Democrats on the Hill — both the House and the Senate,” Carville said to Ari Melber.
“They feel like they’re not going to lose it, that they’re on the right side — and there is zero appetite to give in. If they wanted to, they couldn’t, because Democratic voters would come out of the woodwork. You better brace yourself for what’s going to happen in November, because this is the first time voters are going to the polls. We’ve had special elections, and in every one, Democrats have outperformed by over 15 points. The moment of reckoning cometh — and it’s not that far away.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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