As we embark on the fourth government shutdown that has happened under a Trump presidency , I join my fellow Americans in asking this most-crucial question: If the government is shuttered, does that mean we won’t have to hear Donald Trump ’s babbling or see his raving social media posts?
I mean, it seems a full shutdown of the federal government should act as a sort of mute button on the president. From here on, he can keep talking, but we can’t hear a word he says, the sort of blissful world many of us can only imagine, one free of Trump’s mean-spirited gurgles and offensive Truth Social posts .
In a just America, that’s what would happen because this shutdown is wholly and entirely the fault of Trump and the Republican toadies who do his bidding.
This government shutdown belongs