The first president ever to preside over a government shutdown while his party controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency.
The first president ever to preside over a government shutdown on the first anniversary of his inauguration.
The earliest government shutdown ever in a presidency.
In 2013, Trump said in an interview that a government shutdown falls at the feet of the president because it shows an inability to lead. Five years later he's trying to blame the Democrats for his own failure to lead despite having an advantage no other president in this position has had because, as we all know by now, he never takes responsibility for anything - it's always someone else's fault.
A master negotiator could have worked out a deal to avoid this unnecessary shutdown. Instead, he reached potential deals at least twice in the past few days, only to back out of them a couple of hours later. Clearly, he is not the master negotiator he told us he was.
Some of us have always known that. |