‘Kamikaze Attack!’ Trump Torches Democratic Shutdown Strategy

President Donald Trump skewered Democrats on Tuesday over their approach to the ongoing government shutdown showdown, likening it to a “kamikaze attack” by Japanese pilots in World War II.

He made the comment while flanked by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Vice President JD Vance, and other members of his administration at the White House.

“Well, they’re the ones who started it, they’re the ones who have it, and it’s almost like a kamikaze attack by them. You want to know the truth, this is like a kamikaze attack. You know, they have nothing to lose,” said Trump.

His answer came in response to a question from Brian Glenn with Real America’s Voice, who asked for the president’s “message” to Dems, considering most Americans want to “open the damn government,” as Glenn put it.

Trump’s answer also followed Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), voting against a stopgap funding bill last week that would have kept the U.S. government open until Nov. 21. Schumer said the Dems voted against the bill because Republicans were not making enough concessions to his party’s demands regarding Obamacare subsidies.

President Trump on Tuesday also ripped ex-Vice President Kamala Harris for repeatedly claiming on her book tour that she lost the “closest” election of the 21st century. Trump on Tuesday said that claim was bogus, while also dubiously claiming that the election was “was one of the biggest sweeps that anybody’s ever had.”

Trump beat Harris in the Electoral College last year, 312-226, which was the widest margin this century beyond former President Barack Obama’s two presidential victories in 2008 and 2012. The president also won the popular vote with 77 million votes to Harris’s 75 million.

“It was one of the greatest victories ever, and it was a mandate to do what we’re doing,” Trump said Tuesday.

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