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Make no mistake about it, this is the Trump Shutdown

Since the federal government shut down at midnight on Saturday, January 20th, the Republican and Democratic parties have taken turns pointing fingers at one another for blame. Republicans have tried referring to the situation as Schumer Shutdown, in reference to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, claiming he and the Democratic Party have taken the government hostage over DACA. Many Democrats have come forth with the attack, "The GOP controls all three parts of government! How can they blame the minority?" While I could sit here and nitpick the two parties' rationales and get fancy by casting a specific percentage of blame to both, I'm not going to do that. This isn't the Schumer Shutdown and isn't even the McConnell Shutdown; it's the Trump Shutdown. Period.

Donald Trump doesn't know what in the hell he's doing. He's like a 5-year-old who was just handed the keys to a Mercedes, has surrounded himself with blind men, is being provided directions by an inebriated Siri, and thinks she's sober. He doesn't know how government works. He's painfully ignorant about the laws surrounding the government. The guy apparently never watched Schoolhouse Rock. He has no leadership skills. He knows direction about as well as a giraffe does the limbo. The man is a wet dream for the Tea Party, as with him as its leader, he wholeheartedly proves the federal government is worthless.

More than 4 in 5 Americans support the Dreamers, and with that, continuing DACA. Donald Trump held a conference with leaders from both parties, said we needed to treat Dreamers with love, and regardless of the (DACA) bill they placed on his desk, he'd sign it. Not 24 hours later, the president shifted his tune, bigly. As he would be the individual to finalize any budget deal with his signature, the man gave multiple segments within both parties different directions. If he were Santa Claus, he would have been  simultaneously telling four reindeer to take him east, four to take him west, and then wondering why they weren't going anywhere, only to blame Rudolph in the end, whom he instructed to go both east and west.

The federal government is in complete disarray with Donald Trump in the oval office. The man is to contradictions what sex is to pregnancies. With sex come pregnancies and with Trump comes contradictions. If only there was a birth-control-like pill to help prevent him from constantly uttering such nonsense, Congress would at least have the opportunity to function more efficiently. However, when the President of the United States doesn't provide any consistent blueprint on what he will or won't sign once it reaches his desk and gives mixed messages on just that to both parties, whether or not it's been made official, this results in a government shutdown. While technically speaking, this is day 3 of the shutdown, the federal government has basically been shut down since Donald Trump entered office, over 365 days ago.

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