Trump’s Angry New Tirades Push Mike Johnson into Awkward Clean-Up Mode

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In recent days, President Trump issued two furious tirades demanding that Republicans end the Senate filibuster to reopen the government. He ranted at great length in demanding this “NOW” and exploded in all-caps while urging the “NUCLEAR OPTION.” As many noted, this undercut Republicans, revealing that they could simply end the shutdown themselves, ultimately showing that they control the government. Then Trump ranted about his horror that health care premiums are set to spike for millions. This, too, undercuts the GOP, because guess who won’t extend Affordable Care Act subsidies to prevent that? Republicans! Trump’s fury forced Mike Johnson into an awkward routine declaring that the president is “angry” because...the government hasn’t reopened. But this just showed how disconnected Trump is from all this, highlighting the Trump-GOP refusal to do the hard work of negotiating a settlement. We talked to Fair Share America organizer Maura Quint. She discusses Trump’s deep laziness, how this is perceived by low-info voters, and whether this will allow Democrats to penetrate Trump-dominated info spaces. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.9	Suddenly, a lot is happening on the government shutdown front.
1:04.6	President Trump called on Republicans to end the filibuster to reopen the government.
1:10.7	That prompted pushback from Republicans, including a very gentle rebuke from Mike Johnson, and in a funny way,
1:12.8	Trump undermined his own argument, which is that Democrats are in control of whether the
1:17.5	shutdown continues or ends. On another front, Trump raged over the coming spiking of Obamacare
1:24.0	premiums, claiming this is something he really, really wants to fix. But here again,
1:29.5	he undermined his own argument, because if he wanted to fix that problem, he and Republicans
1:34.1	could simply extend the Obamacare subsidies, which they refuse to do. The big story here is that
1:41.1	Trump is just all over the place. He seems wholly disconnected from how bad
1:45.9	the politics of this is to his own party. So today we're talking to Mora Quint, who's been
1:51.1	tracking on the ground sentiment over the shutdown for the Progressive Group Fair Share America.
1:56.1	Maura, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me on. So let's start here. Trump unleashed this wild, all-caps rant in which he said, quote,
2:05.6	because of the fact that the Democrats have gone stone cold, crazy, the choice is clear,
2:10.6	initiate the nuclear option, get rid of the filibuster, close quote.
2:15.6	Mora, that got Republicans upset because it blows up the
2:19.3	GOP strategy. Dems have been saying this is a Republican shutdown, and now Trump admits
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