Thursday night President Donald Trump made fun of Democrats and “the resistance” at the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) winter meeting taking place at the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C.
Fox News aired short parts of Trump’s speech where he said that his administration has been able to pass major legislation, including an overhaul of the tax code, despite Democrats’ call to “resist” his presidency.
“You know, the name is resist,” Trump joked. “That’s the name of their movement. ‘Resist.’ That’s all they do is resist. I don’t know if they’re good at it, they can’t be too good at it because we’re passing a lot of things,” Trump said.
“So I wouldn’t say their resistance is extremely successful,” he added.
According to The Hill, Trump made the remarks after speculating that congressional Democrats would be unwilling to work with his administration on a fix for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients, accusing the party of just wanting to “talk” about immigration reform.
“You know, the Democrats are AWOL. They’re missing in action. We’re saying, ‘where are they? We have a proposal, we never hear from them.’ Because I don’t think they want to solve the DACA problem. I think they want to talk about it. I think they want to obstruct,” the president stated.
Trump’s comments were part of the brief period of the event when the press were allowed. Shortly after that, they were escorted out of the room for the meeting to continue.
Trump said last week that he will endorse a plan that will allow 1.8 million young immigrants to seek U.S. citizenship only if he gets funding for the wall along the Mexico border as well as additional security measures.
Thursday night President Donald Trump used Twitter in order to undermine Democratic leaders for “not calling” him about a fix for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“March 5th is rapidly approaching and the Democrats are doing nothing about DACA. They Resist, Blame, Complain and Obstruct – and do nothing,” Trump said.
“Start pushing Nancy Pelosi and the Dems to work out a DACA fix, NOW!”
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