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President Trump wants to address the nation about the government shutdown on Tuesday night, and later in the week plans to travel to the southern border as part of his effort to persuade Americans of the need for a border wall the sticking point in negotiations with Democrats who are eager to reopen shuttered agencies.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about a request to television networks to carve out time for an Oval Office address. A person familiar with the request said the White House had asked to interrupt prime time programming on Tuesday.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, announced Mr. Trumps plans to travel to the border on Thursday, which would be the 20th day of the partial government shutdown if an agreement between Congress and the White House is not reached in the meantime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/politics/trump-address-border-visit.html
Motherfucker.
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)Grasswire2
(13,575 posts)shiny object
spanone
(135,943 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am so fed up with this shitshow I could scream!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,559 posts)Turn the fucking tv off.
TV execs do not care if millions are suffering as long as they get eyeballs while acting as an unfiltered megaphone for the liar-in-chief.
Grasswire2
(13,575 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,559 posts)trueblue2007
(17,250 posts)Send him to the moon !!! Send ALL the GOPigs to the moon
Girard442
(6,088 posts)EarthFirst
(2,906 posts)...it fits into the current narrative hes been hounding recently.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)demmiblue
(36,917 posts)once he injects that kind power into his system. It would be like a drug for him.
I mostly think he will fear-monger and blame the Dems, but you never know.
AJT
(5,240 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)Ohiogal
(32,191 posts)Like how theyve arrested 4000 terrorists in the last year
a kennedy
(29,774 posts)demmiblue
(36,917 posts)And the deplorables will eat it up.
Gothmog
(145,926 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,559 posts)Tell them and their advertisers you won't watch the liar-in-chief spew more propaganda.
irisblue
(33,056 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 7, 2019, 04:41 PM - Edit history (1)
Besides SOTU speeches.
I suspect this means McConnell is aware that the pressure on the Rep. Senators is building. The Apricot Hellbeasts' staff could not have thought of this on their own.
It also implies, someone/he, is aware that the switch to a Dem house is a whole new hard ballgame and that his previous methods of action/behavior aren't going to work.
demmiblue
(36,917 posts)Off to Google...
Edit:
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/666978/trump-discovers-prime-time-address
irisblue
(33,056 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,459 posts)How the hell did he not manage to get his Wall funded during the last 2 years where the Republicans controlled both chambers and basically passed anything and everything without Democrats? Anybody think to ask him (or any Republican) that?
spanone
(135,943 posts)and claim he's winning. I guess that hour he spent lying on Friday just wasn't enough.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)where motherfucker 1 takes questions.
demmiblue
(36,917 posts)demmiblue
(36,917 posts)Link to tweet
Link to tweet
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)demmiblue
(36,917 posts)but they won't because he'll be a meanie to them on Twitter.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,559 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)people of the United States of America!
Trump's Reichstag fire will become a reality!
If he is allowed to trample on the Constitution and rule of law in this way, all bets are off!
Full blown GOP fascism will rule America!
ooky
(8,934 posts)They should have demanded that he first open the government before they give him air time to lie.
demmiblue
(36,917 posts)Link to tweet
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,559 posts)Tell them beforehand that you will NOT watch their network, and why.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Blame, blame, blame. Hate, hate, hate. Fake news, fake journalist, fake, fake fake.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Just so he can prove it is dangerous.
Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)Drop an indictment or two or seven now so this shitshow can be cancelled.
Hassler
(3,401 posts)1. The semi-literate guy who leaves his glasses in his room and struggles to read the scripted speech or 2. The ranting asshole who relives his great electoral victory, while also playing the victim.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...and all bets are off. Fox has been in full hysteria mode whipping the base for it.