Posted on 10/19/2025 7:01:39 PM PDT by lightman
On Fox News this morning, President Donald Trump ripped Democrat lawmakers who have kept the government shutdown for 19 days. He said that they have “Trump Derangement Syndrome."
“We have a deal. We just want an extension. And the reason we want an extension is because you can’t make a deal with these people. They’re lunatics. They’re gone crazy. They’re crazed people. Trump derangement syndrome. There really is that disease. At first, I found it to be amusing. Now, I find there really is - they want $1.5 trillion for health care for illegal aliens. If we do that, it will jeopardize the health care of the citizens of our country. So we’re not going to do that.”
🚨 JUST NOW: President Trump says TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME has pushed Democrats to demand $1.5 TRILLION for illegal aliens...
...but Trump says it will NEVER happen.
"They've gone crazy. They're crazed people. Trump derangement syndrome! There really is that disease. At first… pic.twitter.com/KXtsN52fzp — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 19, 2025
On Fox News this morning, President Donald Trump ripped Democrat lawmakers who have kept the government shutdown for 19 days. He said that they have “Trump Derangement Syndrome."
Trump said that Democratic lawmakers who shut down the federal government apparently forgot that he could cut programs during the shutdown.
"They're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king," Trump said in an Fox interview. "They made one mistake. They didn't realize that [the Schumer Shutdown] gives me the right to cut programs... giveaways, welfare programs, etc., and we're doing that. We're cutting them permanently."
"They're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king," says @POTUS.
"They made one mistake. They didn't realize that [the Democrat Shutdown] gives me the right to cut programs... giveaways, welfare programs, etc., and we're doing that. We're cutting them permanently." pic.twitter.com/teTquv1d5d — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 19, 2025
Trump’s administration said it will pause $11 billion in projects, Townhall reported.
This is the third-longest government shutdown since 1981. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, has refused to reopen the government at least 10 times since Oct. 1.
Instead of ending the shutdown so that federal employees can get paid and the 42 million people who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to eat can expect those benefits to arrive next month, Democratic lawmakers broke a crown and grandstanded during a government shutdown that they could stop.
She did it! She ended the rule of the king we don’t have! Go, Nance! Go! pic.twitter.com/3wWfBhWNkk — Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) October 19, 2025
No Kings Day.
New York City.
We march together for this democracy. pic.twitter.com/wpGHZOHIZx — Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) October 18, 2025
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, called on Democratic lawmakers to reopen the government.
The First Amendment gives Americans the right to free speech and peaceful protest — it’s one of the MANY things that make America great.
But the irony here is obvious:
If President Trump were a “king,” the government would be OPEN!
Democrats needed a spectacle. Chuck Schumer… pic.twitter.com/iA3aPaESiW — Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) October 19, 2025
I am getting so tired of winning. 🤡
Let it be so!
WELL...IM WAITING..hes been saying this for almost two weeks now Im waiting for him to do it already!
Cut to the bone. WHATEVER it takes to fix all of this ridiculous mess so many corrupt politicians have caused.
Mr. President, don’t talk about it. Just do it.
I like it it is great news.
Its only temporary. We get 3 years of cuts. Nobody is asking congress to abolish anything. So it all remains in place just cut and reduced.
We know the future. The republicans and the democrats will bipartisan their way to restoring all of it. I remember the Bushs, the Romneys, the Nixons, the Rockefellers, the McCains and all the rest of the big government republicans who created new bureaucracies or expanded them.
The final piece is we need pressure on Congress to pass some bills that would abolish agencies. Wipe them off the face of the earth.
Do it already president, there is no time to waste.
How about congress not getting paid either?
My Congresscritter (Smucker, R-PA 11) has declined pay.
Will the little federal judges be triumphant again?
They’ll have all the employees rehired with back pay and allowed to sue Trump in court.
Let’s hope the SCOTUS sides with having a President and not just demigod judges ruling our lives.
Just as USAID never went to treat AIDS in Africa or poverty in Africa or famine in Africa. It went to African dick taters in Africa. And then found its way into demonicRAT campaign accounts.
“They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” Trump said in an Fox interview. “They made one mistake. They didn’t realize that [the Schumer Shutdown] gives me the right to cut programs... giveaways, welfare programs, etc., and we’re doing that. We’re cutting them permanently.”
Has this been verified?
I wish it were so, but the power of the purse rests with Congress. This was established by the courts long before Trump. Any permanent cuts must be approved by Congress.
Now, letting people go or getting them to quit because the shutdown drsgs on...those can be permanent reductions in staff. Just don’t hire a replacement or restructure the departments to eliminate those jobs.
A judge will see to it that he is stopped.
We keep hearing he’ll cut the programs but where’s the list of programs cut.
@SenSchumer
DOH!
Are things still getting better for you every day?
Hmmmmmmm?
That would be my pick and also that was a campaign promise for re-election in 2024.
However nobody from the administration is trying to make a request for Congress to abolish the agency.
So we are essentially stuck and that promise remains unkept.
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