Top Dem Demands Trump 'Get Off The Golf Course' And Help Solve The Shutdown

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Oct 20, 2025, 07:44 PM EDT


After almost three weeks into a government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is wondering what President Donald Trump is doing to end the standoff.

Calling out the president for his passive approach during a Monday press briefing, The Hill reported Jeffries said, “Donald Trump definitively needs to get involved. He needs to get off the sidelines, get off the golf course, and actually decide to end this shutdown that he’s created.”

Though the president met with top Democrats and leaders of the GOP to hash out a compromise during closed door meetings two days before the shutdown started, he’s avoided talks with either party since the federal government’s budget expired on Oct. 1.

Democrats refuse to vote for the spending bill without concessions, namely an extension on Affordable Care Act subsidies, while top brass within the GOP say they won’t negotiate until stopgap legislation is passed to get the government going again. Jeffries said Trump’s decision to stay out of the fray was strategic, telling the reporters, “We know that House and Senate Republicans don’t do anything without permission from their boss, Donald J. Trump.”

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[COL Mustard]

1. THIS is a situation where *45/47 could solve it with a phone call.

He hasn't, which tells me all I need to know about his actual priorities.

[Escurumbele]

14. Raises the question on why Democrats continue to ask trump to do anything useful, anything for the country?

As it happens in ALL totalitarian regimes, and USA doesn't have one yet, the goal is to create chaos, to destroy, to keep people's minds constantly busy with the criminality that is made transparent on purpose. To ask the buffoon to do something good is a waste of time, instead they need to go through the books to find ways of stopping the madness, ways to wake up, even the deplorable, about what is going on and why it is so bad for all, to erase the idea of the deplorable that they are immune from the criminality they voted for, the farmers should be a good example.

I am so tired of these Democrats waste of energy and time complaining, asking for what they know will not happen, instead they need to become aggressive in stopping the madness, bring lawyers into the mix, find ways to stop them, to stop the supreme court which has also become corrupt, treasonous and criminal.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. drumph is the cause of this. mr house speaker is just a slave .

[popsdenver]

3. Trump and Republicans don't want to

AND WHO IS GOING TO MAKE THEM ?????????????????????

Certainly not the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, the U.S. Supreme Court, the DOJ, the FBI, etc etc etc...........

The time to have stopped them was the 2000 election, the 2004 election, the 2016 election, the January 6th insurrection, etc

but everyone was walking down the jungle path, swatting at mosquitoes, oblivious to the herd of charging elephants..............
.............. "growing concerned" and writing "sternly worded letters"

[Hotler]

4. Leader Jeffries, ssshhhh .... Quiet, let them fuck up. Let them dig themselves deeper.

Remember, they are not your friend.

[peppertree]

5. No can do. The Dear Leader is enjoying his favorite sport:

Cheating.

[ShazzieB]

13. By now, I should know better than to trust a YouTube video title, lol,

The title says "TRUMP CAUGHT CHEATING: VIRAL VIDEO shows caddy RIGGING golf ball for him," but it doesn't actually show that.

It starts with 2 guys walking across the screen toward what appears to be a large sand trap. They disappear off screen, and the camera pans back to Schlump getting out of a golf cart. The clear implication is that they moved his ball out of the sand trap, and I have no trouble believing that's what happened, but I couldn't help being a little disappointed that we didn't get to see them do the deed, as the title indicates. Still worth watching, though!

[peppertree]

15. But if you look closely (at :04), you can see the caddie slyly dropping the ball behind him.

Needy Amin is banned from almost all (non-Trump) golf courses on account of that, among other Trumpishness.

[ShazzieB]

16. I finally saw it!

I had to watch it about 3 times (after having already watched it multiple times), but I finally saw it! I guess I must have blinked at the wrong moment all those other times, lol!

Thanks for the tip - it really helps to know what to watch for!

[peppertree]

18. You bet.

They say Trump values loyalty above all else in his peons. But he actually values something even more: craftiness.

As long as they don't flip, of course ("I hate flippahs. In the past, they knew how to deal with'em" ).

[ihaveaquestion]

6. "Get Off the Golf Course and Do Your Job" is a good line and it should be every Democrats theme ...

until the shutdown is over.

Then hit him with the building his ballroom boondoggle. After that, hit him with some other time-waster he's doing - posting AI videos or designing meme coins... whatever.

He doesn't do any actual work, make it a cudgel to hit him with over and over.

[BattleRow]

12. The President needs to preside,not just reside.

[turbinetree]

7. Dear Jefferies you are speaking with a fascist.... a wanna be Putin mini me...........is it TACO Tuesday........well by

golly it is wait until the end of the day............he his having a hard on tearing down a historical house of WE the People..............you don't want to get him side tracked..............maybe he will do day 2 and fly is jet and bomb the people again with his continuing shit show.............since he enjoys hurting people and things.......................maybe the US Supreme court will fill out his wet dream and making the dictator they want with there unitary government bullshit..............

[Champp]

8. Stop laying with your Republican putter

Onan the wanker

[GreenWave]

9. He should poimt to his head and say "Aother hole in one!"

[Initech]

10. MAGA isn't there to do any real, actual work.

They're there to stall, obstruct and make shit content for Fox News.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Share via Facebook and other social media its royal fondness for cheating.

[Owens]

17. He doesn't want Congress open

He is power hungry and wants to get away with giving our enemies free access to our government and our money.