Trump Has Tantrum; Calls For Government Shutdown. No, Really

Donald Trump can't make a deal so he calls for a government shutdown. He thinks this is how a POTUS behaves?
By Frances Langum — May 2, 2017

What a toddler.

Donald Trump tweeted this morning that (since he can't make a deal that gets all the Republican votes that are the majority of the US Congress, both houses) he wants the rules changed so he can get anything he wants through the Senate with 51 votes.

This while Paul Ryan was trying, desperately, to paint the spending bill as a "win."

The shade from some Democrats on the Hill was real:

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