Trump on the Shutdown: ‘I Have No Fun Doing This’

‘I’m getting credit from the real news for doing a great job’

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TRUMP: "I don’t like hearing this. I have no fun doing this. I was elected to protect our country. That’s what I’m doing and presidents before me have all voted for this or many of them and many of the senators that I’m negotiating with right now have voted for this but let me tell you something. They didn’t have the guts to do it. Just like they didn’t have the guts to move the embassy to Jerusalem in Israel. They didn’t have the guts to do things that they should have done. Just like they didn’t take out ISIS. Just like so many other things. I was voted 306-223 or something like that, by a lot. I was voted to be your President partially because of security. It’s a big part of what I talk about, not only the wall. The military and lots of other things. I think I’ve done a great job. I think I’ve done a great job. I’m getting credit from the real news for doing a great job but border security is a big part of that. We will also have to stop drugs. If we don’t stop drugs soon, there’s never been a time over the last 10 years that it's gotten worse and worse over the last five, there has never been a time when our country was so infested with so many different drugs coming from so many different locations and I believe that President Xi in China when he made the pledge to me to criminalize fentanyl, I believe that’s going a long way to helping us. I’m going to Camp David, thank you."

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