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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 01:56 AM Jan 2018

Trump Whines: Shutdown Fight Could Make Me Miss My Party

You would tweet too if it happened to you.

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
01.19.18 10:25 PM ET

On the eve of a possible government shutdown, President Donald Trump privately vented frustrations that the political impasse could possibly keep him from attending a glitzy inauguration anniversary bash and fundraiser set for Saturday at his Florida getaway Mar-a-Lago.

Two sources close to the president, one a White House official and the other a longtime confidant, told The Daily Beast how excited he was for the event and relayed his growing concern that the potential failure to strike a deal to keep the federal government open could keep him from “my party,” as the president has said.

A different source who spoke to Trump earlier this week previously told The Daily Beast that the president had joked that it would be a “shame” if a government shutdown were to occur on, or overshadow, the first anniversary of his inauguration as president.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to comment on the record for this story.

The White House officially cancelled Trump's trip to Florida that was scheduled for Friday afternoon, and he spent the day attempting to help congressional leaders reach a deal to forestall a shutdown. But there is no word on whether the president might head south after federal appropriations expire at midnight.

Administration officials who briefed reporters on the logistics of the impending shutdown on Friday said the expiration of government funding would not necessarily impede the president's travel plans to Mar-a-Lago or elsewhere. In particular, one official said, Trump will still be free to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, though the White House did not say whether the shutdown would affect Trump's plans to attend the glamorous gathering of globalists.


But sources didn't report Davos coming up on Friday. For the president, it seems, the weekend's party at his Florida estate was the more pressing engagement.

The Saturday gala is set to be hosted by Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, and businessman Steve Wynn, and proceeds will go toward the RNC and the Trump re-election campaign.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-whines-shutdown-fight-could-make-me-miss-my-party

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Trump Whines: Shutdown Fight Could Make Me Miss My Party (Original Post) SummerSnow Jan 2018 OP
Recommended. H2O Man Jan 2018 #1
You just know Mueller is looking at the trump PAC spending dixiegrrrrl Jan 2018 #2
Inaugural anniversary " bawl " Historic NY Jan 2018 #3
Fuk him MFM008 Jan 2018 #4

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. You just know Mueller is looking at the trump PAC spending
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:10 AM
Jan 2018

by now most people are aware of Trump's greed.

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