‘EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!’ Trump Touts Popularity After Blowing Up GOP Budget Bill on Eve of Government Shutdown

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President-elect Donald Trump touted his popularity on Truth Social Thursday morning, one day after he and Elon Musk intervened blowing up a bill to avert an approaching government shutdown on Friday.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) had proposed a continuing resolution accompanied by additional disaster relief fund in order to keep the federal government running, Trump and Musk both embarked on a public pressure campaign to kill it on Wednesday.

After Musk raged against the legislation on social media, Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance released the following statement:

The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.

Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney. The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee—which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day. This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.

Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch. If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.

Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country.

Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.

THIS CHAOS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF WE HAD A REAL PRESIDENT. WE WILL IN 32 DAYS!

Later, Trump warned that any House Republican who voted for the bill “should, and will, be Primaried.”

On Thursday morning, Trump flexed his muscles again by reminding the world that “EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” on Truth Social.

Polls show that Americans generally approve of Trump’s transition effort, though they’re skeptical of many of his Cabinet picks.