Haberman: Why Trump’s Been Quiet During The Government Shutdown | EUROtoday

During the phase, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins requested the New York Times journalist why she believed Trump “has not been in front of the cameras.”

“I think that he is listening to his advisers, who are trying to keep him from being the face of [the government shutdown],” Haberman answered.

She added that the final time a shutdown occurred beneath Trump’s presidency in 2019, he appeared on digital camera declaring “something to the effect of ‘Let there be a shutdown.’”

Earlier within the dialogue, Haberman mentioned that the White House is “projecting great optimism” about resolving the scenario quickly.

“They believe that they are seeing some signs that the Democrats will come toward them,” she mentioned, including that she has seen “no signs of that” from her personal reporting.

Trump had mentioned a shutdown might truly be “beneficial” on Tuesday.

“We’re doing well as a country, so the last thing we want to do is shut it down. But a lot of good can come down from shutdowns. We get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want, and they’d be Democrat things,” he mentioned. “But they want open borders, they want men playing in women’s sports, they want transgender for everybody. They never stop. And they don’t learn. We won an election in a landslide, they just don’t learn. So we have no choice. I have to do that for the country.”