Yikes. Donald Trump was massively fumbling the questions he was being asked about the government shutdown,

which he appears to be giddy about and rooting for and saying a lot of good things can come out of

this shutdown. We can fire everybody and we can have our way with the American people. It's really

despicable. So a reporter asked Donald Trump, but if you said

Doge has been getting rid of all of the waste, fraud, and abuse, why are you going to use the

shutdown as a way to lay off people? Why are you going to use it as a pretext to fire hundreds of

thousands of people in the government? Again, Donald Trump just gives an absurd word salad response.

Watch this.

Here, play this clip.

Mr. President, as we inch closer to you a government shutdown this morning, you said you

might do a lot of layoffs.

If Doge is already reducing the federal workforce, why is it necessary to link more federal

jobs cut to a shutdown?

Well, the Democrats want to shut it down.

So when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs.

So we'd be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected.

And the Democrats, they're going to be Democrats.

As you know, this country, no country can afford to pay for illegal

immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country. That's what they're insisting.

And obviously, I have an obligation to not accept that. That would affect everybody.

You know, when I see what we're doing with AI and all the plants that are opening up in the country,

$17 trillion is coming. And if you compare that to Biden, Biden had in four years less than a trillion, we have 17 trillion more than that. I think it's going to be much more than that, David, by the end of this year. I think it's going to be far out. And that's a record. It's already a record in eight months. And then Donald Trump brags that a lot of good can come from the shutdown. And he says, what we'll be able to do is kind of go after Democrats. We'll be able to go, you know, see, you heard him say that before. We'll go after the Democrats in the shutdown and make Democrats feel pain, especially those Democrat employees here play this clip. I think it's going to be far over that. It's a record. It's already a record in eight months. It's a record by a lot. And so we're doing well as a country. So the last thing we want to do is shut it down. But a lot of good can come down from shutdowns. We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want. And they'd be Democrat things, but they want open borders. They want men playing in women's sports. They want transgender for everybody. They never stop. And they don't learn. We won an election in a landslide. They just don't learn. So we have no choice. I have to do that for the country. Yes.

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