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Remember that Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, and Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Leader in the House, wrote a sternly worded letter to Donald demanding a meeting. Why? Well, because Schumer is desperate to avoid a government shutdown he believes he would be blamed for, which is an absurd conclusion for him to reach. As it turns out, Donald has no intention of meeting with them, and he wrote this on his failing social media platform: After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the minority radical left Democrats in return for their votes to keep our thriving country open, I've decided that no meeting with their congressional leaders could possibly be productive. I look forward to meeting with you when you become realistic about the things our country stands for. After that little rant, Donald claimed that the Democrats are threatening to shut down the government of the United States over things like “dead people on the Medicaid roles,” and “transgender operations for everybody.” That is the person for whom Schumer and Jeffries are willing to give up their leverage. These two have an opportunity here—the same one they had a few months ago and squandered. They can, first of all, prove to Democrats, who are desperate for leaders willing to fight for them, that they are leaders like that. Secondly, they can demonstrate to the American people that the Democrats who still believe in democracy and who still believe in our Constitution, will never make common cause with fascists. So Senator Schumer, leader Jeffries, that is not a very high bar. Here's hoping you can clear it. Let's dive in. Hello everybody, and welcome to tonight's episode of Mary Trump Live. It’s great to have you here. Let's start with what's clearly the biggest news of the day: Donald's deeply humiliating address at the United Nations. He spoke four times longer than his alloted time and his remarks were completely off the rails. I know we say that time and time again, but in this case he was truly more unhinged than in other recent appearances—even the fascistic speech he gave at the Charlie Kirk Memorial over the weekend. Watching him, I could feel the standing and credibility of the United States plummeting before my very eyes. He told many, easily disproved, and in some cases dangerous lies. And he also said things that were utterly nonsensical: It's interesting. In the United States, we have still radicalized environmentalists and they want the factories to stop. Everything should stop. No more cows. We don't want cows anymore. I guess they want to kill all the cows. They want to do things that are just unbelievable and you have it too. But we have a border strong and we have a shape, and that shape doesn't just go straight up. That shape is amorphous when it comes to the atmosphere. And if we had the most clean air, and I think we do, we have very clean air. We have the cleanest air we've had in many, many years. But the problem is that other countries like China, which has air that's a little bit rough, it blows. And no matter what you're doing down here, the air up here tends to get very dirty because it comes in from other countries. Does it really? I defy anyone to tell me what he actually meant to say. The question is will the corporate media sane wash him? Which is to say, will they translate his gibberish into something that makes sense? Will they tell us what they think he meant to say as opposed to what he actually said, which was defamatory and incomprehensible. I believe in protecting the environment. I love cows. I don't want to kill all of the cows. Because I'm not an idiot, however, I understand that one of our biggest problems is deforestation, which is motivated by people's desire for meat. And I'm not entirely sure how somebody who eats as many Big Macs as he does can actually claim to care about the fate of cows. The “radical environmentalists” of his imagination are those of us who believe that climate change is something we must combat. We do not want to annihilate all of the cows. I would respond to the rest of what he said, but I didn't understand a word of it. Then Donald offhandedly implied he’d sanction the murder of people who enter our country illegally: Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the United States, you're going to jail or you're going back to where you came from or perhaps even further than that. You know what that means. Do we know what that means? I am guessing he meant hell, which is something of an escalation. In case you're not aware, my great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Donald's grandparents, were immigrants. My grandmother, Donald's mother, was an immigrant. Two out of three of Donald’s wives were immigrants. Both my Aunt Maryanne and my dad were anchor babies because my grandmother didn’t become a naturalized citizen of the United States until after they were born. It is not enough to say that this person is an embarrassment. He's a dangerous, unhinged, unqualified, ignorant, bizarre demagogue who offers nothing. The fact that he is leading the most powerful country on the planet calls something as urgent as climate change a hoax and considers death an appropriate punishment for crossing the border is unthinkable. That's a problem about which the Republicans in Congress could do something—if only they cared. Donald then threw a tantrum on his failing social media in which, as I referenced earlier, he canceled a meeting with Democratic leaders as a government shutdown looms. Just to put this in context, the Republicans control the government. They control the executive branch; they control both Houses of Congress, they control the Supreme Court and much of the judiciary. While claiming that it would be a waste of time to meet with Schumer and Jeffries, he also said, falsely that Democrats, in addition to advocating for taxpayer funded transgender surgery, and so forth, also want higher taxes, open borders, no consequences for committing crimes, men in women's sports and more. All of that is untrue. I fault Jeffries and Schumer for wanting the meeting in the first place, but the point of it was to avert the shutdown on October 1st. This is what Donald does not seem to understand: He needs seven Democrats to vote on this funding bill. Republicans currently only have 53 votes and need 60 because of the filibuster. That is, in order to get a bill to the floor for a vote to allow it. At that point, to get the bill passed, it requires an up or down vote. So, welcome to the Senate, one of the most undemocratic institutions in our alleged democracy. Donald seems to understand none of this. He doesn't seem to understand that the Republicans needs seven Democrats on board in order for his funding bill to get a vote in the Senate. Jeffries, in response to Donald’s canceling the meeting, wrote: Donald always chickens out. Donald just canceled a high stakes meeting in the Oval Office with myself and leader Schumer. The extremists want to shut down the government because they're unwilling to address the Republican healthcare crisis that is devastating America. Wow, that my friends is what they call a self-own extremists want to shut down the government. What happens if Democrats stand strong and refuse to vote to allow cloture? Are Democrats extremists? Because you know the Republicans will do everything in their power to blame a shutdown on Democrats. They will co-opt the language Jeffries gave them to label Democrats extremists? The Democrats should be better at this by now. They need to get their message straight. They continue to make common cause with fascists because they’re afraid of being blamed for something that would without question be the fault of the party in power. But Jeffries just gave Republicans an opportunity to call Democrats extremists if you don't vote for a funding bill, that would be antithetical to the wellbeing of the American people. I'm running out of things t… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marytrump.org/subscribe