Trump Says Meeting Democrats to Avert Shutdown Unlikely to Help
Source: Bloomberg
September 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM EDT
Updated on September 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM EDT
Democratic congressional leaders demanded a meeting with Donald Trump ahead of a possible government shutdown, drawing a noncommittal response from the president. Id love to meet with them, but I dont think its going to have any impact, Trump told reporters outside the White House on Saturday.
After Senate Republicans and Democrats blocked rival stopgap measures on Friday, Trump predicted a shutdown was likely, while adding that well continue to talk to the Democrats.
On Saturday, he suggested he sees little room for Democrats to make demands after their 2024 election defeat. They want all this stuff, they havent changed, they havent learned from the biggest beating theyve ever taken, just about, he said. Id love to meet with them if they want to meet.
The Senate, which can take several days to pass legislation, left town for a break lasting until Sept. 29. The House plans a longer recess extending until Oct. 7.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-20/schumer-jeffries-demand-trump-meeting-ahead-of-looming-shutdown
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taxi
(2,522 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 21, 2025, 12:41 PM - Edit history (1)
His base, being the animals that they are, are fine with this. They don't understand the differences. They don't understand the differences because the entire Republican party doesn't know the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship. They will never learn that a time will come when their followers rise up in defiance to purposely do the opposite of what they're told. They will act with defiance, like recalcitrant children, more so than before.
These are who are mowing down crowds with their vehicles, shooting up schools, and fomenting hate. These are the followers that are acting on the belief that Democrats and the government are the forces misdirecting them and focusing their hatred there. But the time will soon come that an administration that censors our voices and removes us from political positions will no longer be able to misdirect the unknowing. Eventually the fact that the republicans have been the ones with whips in their hands while stepping on their our leashes will come to light. The government that they have been groomed to see as an evil empire will consist of only those they have learned to hate.
eppur_se_muova
(40,102 posts)WestMichRad
(2,649 posts)He wont listen to anything they have to say. He thinks he holds all the cards.
His play might be to demand that the Senate scrap the filibuster.
twodogsbarking
(15,961 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,253 posts)Grins
(8,897 posts)And got out-foxed? How many months* later was it that then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy got kicked to the curb, never to be seen again..?
* Five.
Bayard
(27,120 posts)That's some negotiating right there.
He expects whatever he dictates to rethugs to be rammed right down Dems throats again.
Figarosmom
(8,706 posts)Of course this is so he can say Dems shut it down . He doesn't seem to realize that he's pretty much shut down all the good things already.
Martin68
(26,514 posts)To be fair, Trump probably wouldn't understand what he was hearing even if he did listen.
Miles Archer
(20,295 posts)Harris got 75,019,230 votes. Trump got 77,303,568. THAT'S HARDLY "the biggest beating" Democrats ever took from Republicans.
That's 2 million votes. Of course, he knows that. But he has to exaggerate to sooth his tiny, tiny ego.
Strelnikov_
(8,051 posts)The Senate 3, on a stacked deck.
The election was a slight tilt Con.
markodochartaigh
(4,130 posts)but Greg Palast has shown that Republicans tossed enough voters off rolls to have tilted the election to Trump.
Miles Archer
(20,295 posts)In his view, 2020 was "RIGGED" and "STOLLEN" (a frequent misspelling in his all-caps rage tweets.
He came up with "STOP THE STEAL" so the MAGAts would have a new easy to remember, easy to repeat catch phrase.
And after millions of dollars spent and endless recounts, THERE WAS NO STEAL TO STOP.
And whatever Trump is yelling about the loudest, whatever he's accusing his opponent of doing, HE IS THE ONE ACTUALLY DOING IT.
He learned it from Roy Cohn.
markodochartaigh
(4,130 posts)Republicans in control of all three branches of government drive the government over the cliff.
Mainstream media, "Here is why Democrats are to blame."
ananda
(33,303 posts)Our government is just so fucked!
CTyankee
(67,110 posts)the man's mind is nearly gone. Melanoma won't have anything to do with him and gets a pay per view of her lifeless presence, just standing there staring into space. Jeez, what a presentation that makes on the world!