Hundreds of thousands of Americans are losing paychecks, millions are losing government services and facing skyrocketing health insurance premiums because Republicans have refused to extend Obamacare subsidies.
Donald Trump’s priorities? His golf game.
Via The Daily Beast:
The president’s motorcade reportedly left the White House at roughly 10 a.m. Saturday morning, bound for Trump National Golf Club in Virginia.
His leisure outing comes as Republicans throw the kitchen sink at Democrats, blaming the party for the shutdown, after both sides failed to reach an agreement on Wednesday for funding amid a deadlock on issues of healthcare, foreign aid and regulatory rollbacks.
Maybe Gramps has forgotten that he thinks presidents should be working to make a deal during a shutdown but we have not. “Problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top, and the president’s the leader, and he’s got to get everybody in a room, and he’s got to lead,” Trump told his Fox Friends (and future employment agency), in 2013.
As the video above shows, in 2016, then-candidate Trump claimed he wouldn’t have time to play golf and lectured President Barack Obama to “get off the golf course” and do more work. “I’d just want to stay in the office and work my ass off,” he claimed.
