Either a White House staffer stole Donald Trump’s phone this morning or Trump turned over a major new leaf in his tweeting habits, because his personal account sent out half a dozen tweets in the space of about two minutes with no major typos. But the content remained classic Trump, pushing a bloated military budget and anti-immigrant bigotry, and trying to blame Democratic resistance to eviscerating health care for millions of people for any potential government shutdown.
But Trump’s most astonishingly dishonest claim was that “I want to help our miners while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare.”
Reality: Democrats have been pushing for months to pass protections not just for miners’ health care but for their pensions.
This is Trump’s play, though: If Democrats stand firm and don’t let Republicans screw working people every which way, then it’s Democrats’ fault if Republicans shut down the government and families can't vacation at national parks.