President Donald Trump, at an Oval Office press conference with Canadian PM Mark Carney, commented on the current government shutdown and the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party. “I’m getting calls from Democrats wanting to meet. I never even heard their names before. And they’re claiming to be lead-the Democrats have no leader. They remind me of Somalia,” Trump said.

REPORTER: Mr. President, have you identified programs to eliminate under this shutdown? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh, sure. Sure. REPORTER: Which ones? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have a lot. I’m not going to tell you, but we’ll be announcing it pretty soon. But we have a lot of things that we’re going to eliminate and permanently eliminate. You know, one of the things that we have is some advantage, you could say. But because of the shutdown, which I think they made a big mistake, we’re able to take out billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse. And they’ve handed it, you know, on a silver platter. And, you know, Russell Vought, he’s a serious person, very serious person. And he’s sitting there, and he’s getting ready to cut things. And this is something that was handed to us by, I assume, Schumer. I just don’t know if Schumer has any power anymore. I look at your leadership. I don’t know who to speak to. I’ll tell you what, I’m getting calls from Democrats wanting to meet. I never even heard their names before. And they’re claiming to be leaders. The Democrats have no leader. They remind me of Somalia, okay? You know, and I met the president of Somalia. I told him about the problem he’s got. I said, you have somebody from Somalia who’s telling us how to run our country from Somalia. He said, would you like to take her back? He said, no, I don’t want her. Okay, you know who I’m talking about?

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