Trump canceled New Year's plans because of shutdown, Mulvaney says

[left-of-center2012]

President Donald Trump has canceled his New Year's plans in order to remain in Washington until a deal over border wall funds is reached and the partial government shutdown ends, according to the President's incoming acting chief of staff.

"The President's been here, by the way, all weekend, all Christmas," Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, who will also assume the role of acting chief of staff at the end of the year, said in an interview Friday on "Fox & Friends." "He's staying in Washington, DC, over New Year's. He's canceled his plans for Christmas. Now, he's canceled his plans for New Year's."

Mulvaney said the President is "very heavily engaged on this on a minute-by-minute basis."

Friday morning, Trump tweeted that the US "will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall." Asked if the President is willing to go as far as closing the US-Mexico border, Mulvaney told Fox News, "I think he is."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/politics/mick-mulvaney-trump-shutdown-plans/index.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Look at that stupid jackass.

[slumcamper]

35. That's his Pepe the Frog expression.

Seriously...it sure looks like it, does it not?

[NurseJackie]

42. I love that photo of him! It's so Trump.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Rec for the perfect picture to describe where we are.

[Wounded Bear]

3. I really don't care, do you?

[Heartstrings]

15. Ditto, Wounded Bear! Nt

[Anon-C]

4. Lolll!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Close the border? That's insane.

[slumcamper]

39. Consider the source...

[GWC58]

6. Trump looks constipated.

Or he looks like he wants to extend his hand, saying “pull my finger.” 🤪🥴😂

[underpants]

7. Guests at Mar a lago will just have to soak in Jr.'s electric personality and witty insights

Suck it Trump. Sit your ass in that corner you backed yourself into. Yeah and it’s an Oval Office too - yeah he managed to actually do that.

[spanone]

8. Yea Mick, he's so engaged he's tweeting fox & friends for kissing his ass...yep, 'heavily' engaged

[Golden Raisin]

9. "I'm going to hold my breath until I get what I want!"

[gratuitous]

32. Pelosi raised five children

I'm confident she can handle a toddler's temper tantrum, even if the toddler is 72 years old.

[JenniferJuniper]

10. "Gonna hold my breath...

until I get want I want!"

You do that, Humpty Trumpty. You do that.

[GWC58]

11. So what?! You think being stuck in DC is a

“woe is me” moment? BFD! My wife, son & myself will be in transit New Years Eve. Maybe we make it home before midnight. In all likelihood we won’t. I’m not counting it as a “woe is us” moment. You, sir & you ALONE are responsible for this shutdown!

[The Genealogist]

12. Excuse me while I call the wahhhhhmbulance

[titaniumsalute]

13. Poor fucking baby

let him rot in the Whitehouse. Fucker is saving us money by not traveling.

[mickswalkabout41]

14. I wonder

When those ass hats will get it. They paid top dollar to be in a room with the worlds biggest idiot. Then he didn’t show. The art of the con.

[Heartstrings]

16. Thoughts and prayers......nt

[irisblue]

17. Huge numbers of working Americans did as well

Because of the apricot hellbeast.
Suffer Donnie boy, suffer.

[babylonsister]

18. "very heavily engaged" with who?

No one else is around.

[eShirl]

22. Colonel Sanders and Ronald McDonald.

[2naSalit]

19. Think of the $$ we're saving by him staying home!!

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Which Means He's Finally Working?

How does one take time off from a job one doesn't actually do?

[eShirl]

21. such personal sacrifice!

He should add Holding His Breath.

[barbtries]

23. somewhere i read

that he'd have to pay for the travel himself. but it was for the ratings. a vacation would have looked as if he doesn't care. he cares about how he appears on the tv.

goodgawd i cannot express how much i hate him and what he (and #GOPTraitors) is doing to the country and the world.

[tavernier]

24. Oh, that sounds miserably uncomfortable!

I sure hope some kind person gives him an old coat or blanket to stay warm. It probably gets very drafty in that ancient house, perhaps some icy leaks from the roof, too. And without his loving children around, who knows if the old guy will get the soft diet he prefers, the cake that is easy for him to chew.

You people have no heart. While he sits in this dump, begging for a few dollars, you all make fun of this poor confused old codger.

It won’t be long until the authorities remove him and take him somewhere where he can’t hurt himself, but it is a process. Until then, is it really nice to laugh at him and the demented faces he makes? Remember, he never expected his life to come down to such a pitiful mess. He once thought he was Somebody.

[dameatball]

25. So ruining the economic lives of some federal employees is not enough. Now he is going to punish

those who legally cross the border, (both ways) every day to go to work, support local economies through tourism, etc.


In a way he is admitting this is not about border security, it is about winning. Closing down a border crossing that is already highly monitored is a stunt that has no basis in reality. It is extortion, plain and simple.


For a wall that Mexico was supposedly going to pay for, things are getting mighty expensive for a lot of other people not named Trump.

[PJMcK]

26. I love that Trump stayed in DC

He's dying to golf and he can't. If he had gone to Florida, he would have played every day. By staying in Washington, Trump is denied his passion.

Good. Suffer, you idiot.

[Achilleaze]

27. Whiney republican traitors are such a bore.

[Jersey Devil]

28. Poor baby - womp womp

No party hats or noisemakers for him!

[at140]

29. What? No golf on New Year's day in Mar-a-Lago?

Trump must be in broken spirits. As a golfer myself I can understand this.
Golf is better than sex because a round of golf lasts 4 hours. And after the
round is over, you don't owe the golf course anything. And no one ever
caught a disease playing golf.

[JuJuYoshida]

31. yeah golf isn't THAT much fun, simmer down

[at140]

41. I have played 3500+ rounds of golf

and it was the most fun 14,000 hours I have spent on any activity.
Made so many good friends and improved my health and enjoyed the beauty of nature,
with lush green grass, lovely trees all over, and so many lakes. It is an amazing sport.

[akraven]

44. LOL! Here, moose get in between you and the hole -

And golf clubs won't move them! I've seriously seen this on several occasions, and golfers frustrations are hysterically funny.

Then again, I don't understand why anyone with the time to play golf would play golf.

[at140]

45. It's like sex, unless you have done it, you have no idea

Seriously, golf is not much fun if you can't break 100 on 18 holes.
It becomes more fun if you begin to break 90.
I was breaking 85 every time, and then it became really great!
On occasion I broke 80, and that was really great fun.

[no_hypocrisy]

30. He's holding his breath, OMG!

[onethatcares]

33. I don't understand his problem

the GFM wall project just received $2.64 more today. He will never have to use public funds at this rate.

BTW. Those hands are SMALL

[Takket]

34. Poor baby.

All couped up in a taxpayer funded mansion with his family free to come and go and the world’s best chefs at his beck and call 24/7. The horror!!

[jmbar2]

36. I WANT IT NOW!!

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[LakeSuperiorView]

37. Look how far forward he has to place his arms to get them across his body.

And it looks like his is attempting to suck in his gut. His moobs are in the way of crossing his arms.

[niyad]

38. 3 year old holding his breath until he gets his way (or falls unconscious??)

[Hermit-The-Prog]

40. if you're polling, I vote the latter

Somebody will still have to clean up that chair when he falls over, though.

[uppityperson]

43. Thoughts and prayers