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BumRushDaShow

(160,763 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:04 AM Tuesday

Trump cancels meeting with top Democrats as government shutdown looms

Source: CNBC

Published Tue, Sep 23 2025 10:01 AM EDT Updated 2 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to cancel a planned meeting this week with the two top Democrats in Congress, just days before the federal government is set to shut down. Trump had been scheduled to meet with Senate and House Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries sometime this week — an event that both Democrats had confirmed as recently as Tuesday morning.

But Trump, in a Truth Social post, seemed to scrap those plans. “After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive,” Trump wrote.

Jeffries in an X post later Tuesday morning wrote, “Trump Always Chickens Out.”

“Donald Trump just cancelled a high stakes meeting in the Oval Office with myself and Leader Schumer. The extremists want to shut down the government because they are unwilling to address the Republican healthcare crisis that is devastating America,” the Democratic leader wrote.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/trump-democrats-shutdown-schumer-jeffries.html






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Trump Always Chickens Out.

Donald Trump just cancelled a high stakes meeting in the Oval Office with myself and Leader Schumer.

The extremists want to shut down the government because they are unwilling to address the Republican healthcare crisis that is devastating America.
10:33 AM · Sep 23, 2025



REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143535115

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Trump says no meeting with top Democrats on shutdown 'could possibly be productive'

Published Tue, Sep 23 2025 10:01 AM EDT Updated 4 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to cancel a planned meeting this week with the two top Democrats in Congress, just days before the federal government is set to shut down.

Trump had been scheduled to meet with Senate and House Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries sometime this week, CNBC and other news outlets reported.

"After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Published Tue, Sep 23 2025 10:01 AM EDT Updated 2 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to cancel a planned meeting this week with the two top Democrats in Congress, just days before the federal government is set to shut down.

"After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Published Tue, Sep 23 2025 10:01 AM EDT


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no_hypocrisy

(53,192 posts)
1. Trump can't possibly and already know what "the details" (demands per Trump) of
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:18 AM
Tuesday

Schumer and Jeffries if they haven't been given the opportunity to present them to him.

Another logical fallacy offered by Dear Leader to avoid having to address the issues.

Hasty Generalization:
A hasty generalization fallacy is a claim made on the basis of insufficient evidence. Instead of looking into examples and evidence that are much more in line with the typical or average situation, you draw a conclusion about a large population using a small, unrepresentative sample.
https://www.scribbr.com/fallacies/hasty-generalization-fallacy/

Of course Schumer and Jeffries have spoken on record about the Budget, but Trump (who allegedly loves to make a deal) hasn't listened to what the democratic leaders are willing to trade in exchange for their chambers' votes. Trump is assuming without evidence that what little he knows is their final offer.

Martin68

(26,518 posts)
5. Trump is essentially admitting that if there is a shutdown, it is his fault for not even trying.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:03 AM
Tuesday

He'll try to blame it on the Democrats, but that will only stick with the members of the cult.

Zorro

(17,937 posts)
6. Where is raising the debt ceiling issue in all of this?
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:19 AM
Tuesday

And don''t be surprised if Trump declares a national emergency over this budget impasse and just fund "critical functions" that suit his political agenda.

Bayard

(27,150 posts)
8. Dems need to come out swinging on this right now
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:46 AM
Tuesday

Don't let him frame the issue. Go on every single news and social broadcast. TRUMP SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT!!

BaronChocula

(3,381 posts)
11. That bugs the crap out of me too!
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 02:02 PM
Tuesday

More syllables is not necessarily impressive, even if everyone else talks that way.

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