Trump should make sacrifices just as the federal employees and employees of federal contractors affected by his shutdown are doing. The shutdown of the federal government that he declared he would own. The shutdown that occurred when he decided, after Congress was beginning to go home for the holidays, to end 2018 with a veto of the bipartisan continuing resolution.
Because on the last day of Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, on the last day before Democrats take control of the House, one of the last days of two years of his presidency, that he wanted to hold people and government hostage for an ineffective wall on our southern border. The shutdown that he now blames the Democrats for.
Take away Trump's 24-hour Fox News with its radical conservative propaganda that guides his actions. Take away his golf clubs. Take away his ability to twitter. Take away his protection detail and his gourmet meals and his housekeeping staff and servers and butlers and health care and drivers and interpreters.
Freeze his assets. Suspend his pay, block his ability to cash in CDs or raid his retirement fund or get some cash from his off-shore accounts. Tell him to have Ivanka make up his bed and serve his take-out meals and clean up his garbage.
Tell him exactly what he is telling federal employees to do. Adjust. Ask parents for a loan. Send silly letters to people (and Russians) to accommodate newly found poverty. Get a part-time job with no health insurance (maybe work for the groundskeepers). Tell him to walk in the shoes of the people he is screwing. Let him feel the effects of the shutdown that he engineered. Let him find out what it is like for people who live one paycheck away from disaster.
Trump said he would own the shutdown. He should also live it.
Because on the last day of Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, on the last day before Democrats take control of the House, one of the last days of two years of his presidency, that he wanted to hold people and government hostage for an ineffective wall on our southern border. The shutdown that he now blames the Democrats for.
Take away Trump's 24-hour Fox News with its radical conservative propaganda that guides his actions. Take away his golf clubs. Take away his ability to twitter. Take away his protection detail and his gourmet meals and his housekeeping staff and servers and butlers and health care and drivers and interpreters.
Freeze his assets. Suspend his pay, block his ability to cash in CDs or raid his retirement fund or get some cash from his off-shore accounts. Tell him to have Ivanka make up his bed and serve his take-out meals and clean up his garbage.
Tell him exactly what he is telling federal employees to do. Adjust. Ask parents for a loan. Send silly letters to people (and Russians) to accommodate newly found poverty. Get a part-time job with no health insurance (maybe work for the groundskeepers). Tell him to walk in the shoes of the people he is screwing. Let him feel the effects of the shutdown that he engineered. Let him find out what it is like for people who live one paycheck away from disaster.
Trump said he would own the shutdown. He should also live it.
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