Trump meanders away from shutdown question to talk about 'men in women's sports'
On his way to be transported to a Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, to give a speech at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial summit with the top Pentagon brass, Donald Trump went on a rambling rant when asked about the budget crisis that threatens to shut the U.S. government at midnight.
Instead of talking about how to end the budget impasse, the president talked about his border wall and “men playing in women’s sports.”
On MSNBC, an unidentified reporter asked, “If there is a shutdown, how many federal workers do you plan to lay off?”“Well, we may do a lot, and that's only because of the Democrats,” he began. “And as you know, they wanted to be able to take care of people that have come into our country illegally, and no system can handle that.”
The 79-year-old Trump then ranted, “And so we're totally opposed on that. But we can't take it. We just can't do it. I'd love to do everybody. I'd love to do the whole world. But our country can't handle people that come into our country illegally, and they want to give them full health care benefits. They want to open the wall again. Can you believe it? I can't even believe it. They want to open the wall.”
“They haven't taken away boys playing in women's sports — they haven't done that. Men playing in women's sports, it's — they don't change. They lost an election in a landslide and they don't change,” he concluded before being asked about a solution to the war in Gaza.
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