President Donald Trump claimed he didn't slam his hand on the table during a contentious meeting at the White House with congressional leaders and accused Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of lying about what happened.
'I didn't pound on table. I didn't raise my voice. That was a lie,' he told reporters at the White House before he left on a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.'
'What you should do is give them pinocchios because if you ask Mike Pence and you ask Kevin McCarthy. You ask anybody in the room they will say because I know if I do that you are going to report it. But you guys report it anyway because you are fake news. But let me just tell you something. I very calmly said if you are not going to give us strong borders, bye-bye and I left,' he added.
The president also denied he has a temper.
'I don't have temper tantrums. I really don't. It plays to [Schumer's] narrative. It's a lie. I very calmly walked out of the room. I didn't smash the table. I should have but I didn't smash the table that's the story. So all of that. All of that narrative is a lie,' he noted.
Before he left for his trip, Trump tweeted that Schumer was lying about what happened in the meeting with Congressional leaders.
He also claimed there is unity in the Republican Party in standing firm for a border wall.
'There is GREAT unity with the Republicans in the House and Senate, despite the Fake News Media working in overdrive to make the story look otherwise. The Opposition Party & the Dems know we must have Strong Border Security, but don’t want to give “Trump” another one of many wins!,' he wrote.
President Trump claims he 'politely' walked out a White House meeting with Congressional leaders
Trump charged Schumer with lying about what happened
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump had a temper tantrum in the meeting
Trump claims Republicans are supporting his firm stance on a border wall
On Wednesday, Schumer accused Trump of a 'temper tantrum' in his meeting with himself, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders.
'He sort of slammed the table and when Leader Pelosi said she didn't agree with the wall he just walked out and said: 'We have nothing to discuss,'' he told reporters outside the White House.
'This was really, really unfortunate and in my judgment somewhat unbecoming of the presidency,' Schumer said.
Trump isn't the only Republican who was in the room disputing the Democrats' account.
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy charged Democrats with lying about what happened.
'Their behavior is embarrassing to me. And the way to come out to this floor and talk about a meeting in a manner that did not take place in there is disturbing to me,' he told reporters at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
McCarthy claimed Trump 'turned to the speaker and politely asked her, 'Okay, Nancy, if we open the government up in 30 days, could we have border security?''
'She raised her hand and said, 'No, not at all',' he recalled. 'The president calmly said, 'I guess you're still not wanting to deal with the problem.' The president wants to solve this problem. That's why he continues to bring us down. That's why he's put offers on the table. Not once have the Democrats offered anything back.'
It was Schumer, he claimed, who 'began to raise his voice.'
McCarthy said the way the Democrats portrayed the meeting was 'embarrassing.'
A furious President Trump walked out of the meeting with congressional leaders when Democrats refused to promise they would fund his border wall project in exchange for ending a weeks-old government shutdown.
'Just left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time,' Trump tweeted, referring to Pelosi and Schumer, who met with him in the Situation Room along with other Republican and Democratic congressional leaders.
'I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!'
Vice President Mike Pence told reporters gathered outside the West Wing that Trump had indeed ended the meeting quickly when Pelosi said Democrats were not prepared to make him any guarantees.
Democrats painted a different picture.
'He said it was a waste of his time,' House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer charged of the president.
Pelosi charged that Trump 'seems to be insensitive' to the impact of a partial government shutdown on rank-and-file federal employees who will see their first lapse in payroll on Friday.
'He thinks maybe they can just ask their father for more money. But they can't,' she jabbed.
President Donald Trump, pictured Wednesday on Capitol Hill, stormed out of a Situation Room meeting with the top two Democrats in Congress hours later after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to promise Congress would green-light his border wall funding in exchange for an end to the partial government shutdown that has persisted for nearly three weeks
Trump tweeted that the meeting was 'a total waste of time' and wrote that he 'said bye-bye' after Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi refused to cut a deal with him
Pelosi, the new Speaker of the House, has held fast to her demand that Trump sign bills funding the shuttered government agencies before she will negotiate on how to fund new border security initiatives – but has shown no interest in helping Trump fulfil his signature campaign promise to wall off Mexico from the United States
Schumer said at the microphones on the South Lawn of the White House: 'We saw a temper tantrum because he couldn't get his way, and he just walked out of the meeting'
Vice President Mike Pence insisted that Trump never raised his voice to Pelosi or Schumer, and claimed he brought candy to the meeting for everyone
Pelosi added that she had told the president that 'the evidence does not support the situation you describe,' referring to his claims that human trafficking, narcotics smuggling and a criminal epidemic constitute a border crisis.
Pence and House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy played clean-up, painting a picture of a congenial meeting that the Democrats fouled through sheer stubbornness with the president even offering candy to his Democratic rivals.
'The president walked into the room and passed out candy,' Pence said. 'I don't recall him ever raising his voice or slamming his hand. This is a president who feels very strongly about his commitment to see to the security of the American people.'
A White House official told DailyMail.com the president offered 'little mini candy bars - m&ms, peanut butter cups, butterfingers.'
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, told reporters on Capitol Hill after the White House showdown that Trump had appeared confused about why he was meeting with his nemeses.
'I don't know why I'm doing this,' he said the president had told the group. 'I didn't want to do this meeting. They told me I had to do this meeting.'
Pelosi told a waiting press corps at the Capitol: 'It wasn't even a high stakes negotiation. It was a petulant President of the United States, a person who would say 'I'll keep government shut down for months or years if I don't get my way.' That's just not the way democracy works and that's sad.'
As Trump was giving Democrats the brush-off in the Situation Room on Wednesday, the White House budget office poured cold water on any prospects of re-opening shuttered government agencies one-by-one.
House Democrats proposed bills that would individually fund the Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Transportation and other departments.
'The Administration is committed to working with the Congress to reopen agencies affected by lapsed appropriations, but any effort to do so must address the security and humanitarian crisis on our Southwest border and should restore funding for all agencies affected by the lapse,' the office of Management and Budget said in a statement.
And if those piecemeal proposals should reach Trump's desk, 'his advisors would recommend that he veto the bills.'
Trump had vowed hours earlier to let the shutdown continue and allow 'whatever it takes' unfold so he can win support for his border wall, storming Capitol Hill to convince Republicans they should stick with him on day 19 of the crisis.
Trump walked up the steps of the U.S. Capitol for a lunch with Senate Republicans, who have been showing signs of impatience with his demand for full funding of his border wall in order to reopen the government.
'How long are you willing to let this shutdown last, Mr. President?' a reporter asked him as he strode down the ornate hallway outside the Senate chamber.
'Whatever it takes,' Trump replied.
Trump's latest offensive comes the morning after his first Oval Office address to the nation, where he sought to turn the tide of lawmaker and public support his way.
His visit came as more Republicans are getting vocal about their concerns the shutdown has gone on too long with some saying it's time to reopen the government even without a guarantee of full funding for Trump's border wall.
The president played down what's happening in his party when asked about it during his visit to Capitol Hill.
'There is tremendous Republican support. Unwavering,' he said.
He met with the Senate Republicans for a little more than an hour and reiterated his unity message.
'The Republicans are totally unified,' he said.
'I would say that we have a very, very unified party. Mitch has been fantastic, everybody in that room was fantastic,' he said of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. 'There was no reason for me even to be there, I knew that before we went.'
He also got in a dig at Democrats before his meeting at the White House with Schumer and Pelosi.
President Donald Trump vowed to let the shutdown continue for 'whatever it takes'
President Trump and Vice President Pence arrive for lunch with Senate Republicans
President Trump went to Capitol Hill with Vice President Mike Pence to convince Republicans to stay by his side
President Trump and Vice President Pence met with Senate Republicans for a little more than hour; here they chat with GOP leadership after their meeting
He implied the Democrats were holding out against his wall to make it a political issue in the 2020 presidential election.
'The only reason they're against it is because I won the presidency and they think they can try and hurt us going into the presidency, but that's not going to happen. We don't give up. Because we're doing, we're doing the right thing for our country,' he said.
'I don't care politically, I'm doing what's right for the country. It is a very bad political issue for the Democrats,' he noted.
The president also dropped new hints on Wednesday that he's prepared to go around lawmakers and build his border wall without a deal for new congressional spending.
'I may do that,' he said during his visit to the Capitol.
Trump beat that drum throughout Wednesday, offering a warning of his powers ahead of his meeting with Congressional leaders.
'I really believe the Democrats and the Republicans are working together,' Trump said during an afternoon bill-signing event in the Oval Office.
But 'otherwise,' he warned, 'we'll go about it in a different manner.'
'I don't think we'll have to do that,' Trump chided unseen Democrats through a press pool that included TV cameras.
'I think we might work a deal,' he said. 'And if we don't, we might go that route.' Trump said he has the 'absolute right' to declare an emergency, declaring that the only meaningful 'threshold' for making that decision would be the failure of his team and negotiators in Congress to cut a deal.
'My threshold will be if I can't make a deal with people who are unreasonable,' he said.
Following his soft-pedal approach to making his case for renewed border security spending during a Tuesday night Oval Office address, Trump's shift back to baring his fangs instead of begging for cooperation left his own aides confused.
'We honestly don't know what he's doing,' one White House official told DailyMail.com after the bill-signing.
Another said fellow aides were 'playing wait-and-see just like the rest of you [reporters], but if it keeps the Democrats as off-balance as we are, maybe that's good.'
President Trump said he has an 'absolute right' to declare an emergency and go around Democrats for wall funding
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (right) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, pictured posing after Tuesday's response to President Donald Trump's Oval Office address, will be at the White House on Wednesday to kick-start negotiations over Trump's border wall and an extended government shutdown
Trump spoke for nine minutes from the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, shaming congressional Democrats as he blamed them for bloodshed caused by illegal immigrants
Trump's preference for a border wall over other security measures hasn't changed.
'We can all play games but a wall is a necessity. ... If you don't have the wall it doesn't matter,' the president said Wednesday. 'A drone isn't stopping a thousand people running through.'
'They say it's a medieval solution,' he complained. 'It's true. It's medieval because it worked then.'
Pelosi and Schumer held a joint press conference Wednesday morning to double down on their refusal to give Trump what he wants – $5.7 billion for new border wall construction in exchange for restoring the operations of about one-quarter of the government.
More than half Trump's Cabinet agencies have been in limbo since a few days before Christmas; he said Tuesday night that 'a 45-minute meeting' could resolve the stalemate.
Schumer and Pelosi aren't likely to give any ground, despite Trump's assurance on Tuesday that the stalemate over border security could be solved in a 45-minute meeting
Trump suggested Wednesday morning that border security is a weak spot in America's otherwise strong carapace
He stopped short of declaring that emergency on Tuesday night while reiterating his demand that congressional Democrats fund a border wall that he has promised for nearly four years.
But he played the shame card with a vengeance, blaming them for playing politics with innocent American lives and allowing 'a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul' to fester.
'How much more American blood must we shed before Congress does its job?' Trump asked in a 9-minute speech from the Oval Office.
Citing a string of murders committed by illegal immigrants who have been previously deported form the United States, he demanded of lawmakers: 'For those who refuse to compromise in the name of border security, I would ask: Imagine if it was your child, your husband or your wife whose life was so cruelly shattered and totally broken.'
'To every member of Congress: Pass a bill that ends this crisis.'
On Wednesday morning the president suggested that border security is a rare bleak spot in America's outlook, tweeting that the nation 'is doing so well in so many ways. Great jobs numbers, with a record setting December. We are rebuilding our military. Vets finally have Choice & Accountability. Economy & GDP are strong. Tax & Reg cuts historic. Trade deals great.'
'But we MUST fix our Southern Border!'
Trump is demanding $5.7 billion in new congressional spending for his long-promised border wall
Pelosi and Schumer delivered the Democrats' response after Trump spoke, framing the conflict as Trump's personal, uninformed crusade as they insisted they won't bend and agree to his terms
The President tweeted after his address to acknowledge 'soooo many nice comments' about his speech amid the ongoing battle with congressional Democrats
Trump said Tuesday that child trafficking and sexual violence against women who try to migrate into the U.S. illegally is a 'cycle of human suffering' that he's determined to end.
He implored Americans to call their members of Congress 'and tell them to finally, after all of these decades, secure our border. This is a choice between right and wrong, justice and injustice.'
The White House has requested $5.7 billion in new funding to continue the wall's construction. The president passed up the option to declare an emergency on Tuesday and spend existing Defense Department dollars to build it without Congress.
An art exhibit occupies part of the U.S.-Mexico border fence on the Tijuana, Mexico side; Trump wants to erect more sections like it in hundreds of miles of border territory where no barriers exist
A U.S. Marine stood outside the doors to the West Wing of the White House on Tuesday night ahead of Trump's address, signifying that the president was working and not in the presidential residence quarters
Trump says he can declare a national emergency to build his wall and is keeping it as an option
Instead he returned to his previous lines of argument, claiming a border security crisis has resulted in a flood of narcotics and human trafficking, and endangering Americans' lives.
After his address Tuesday night, Trump tweeted: 'Thank you for soooo many nice comments regarding my Oval Office speech. A very interesting experience!'
The New York Times reported that Trump told a lunchtime meeting of news executives and anchors on Tuesday that he was inclined to skip the border trip – and the Tuesday night speech – but his advisers persuaded him to follow through.
'It's not going to change a damn thing, but I'm still doing it,' Trump told them, pointing to senior communications aides Bill Shine, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway and observing that 'these people behind you say it's worth it.'
The conflict between Trump and congressional Democrats led to a partial shutdown of the federal government a few days before Christmas. Without an agreement on how to fund about one-quarter of the government, the affected agencies can't reopen.
About 780,000 federal workers are either on unpaid furlough or being forced to work without pay. All will receive back pay when the shutdown ends, but they are likely to miss regularly scheduled paychecks on Friday.
Responding on Capitol Hill Tuesday in their own prime time address, Pelosi and Schumer framed the conflict as Trump's personal, uninformed crusade as they insisted they won't bend and agree to his terms.
'Sadly, much of what we have heard from President Trump throughout this senseless shutdown has been full of misinformation and even malice,' Pelosi said.
'The president has chosen fear.'
Trump passed on the chance to declare a national emergency on the southern border, a move that would have empowered him to freely spend the Pentagon's existing budget to build his wall without getting new funding from Congress
'The fact is: the women and children at the border are not a security threat, they are a humanitarian challenge – a challenge that President Trump's own cruel and counterproductive policies have only deepened,' Pelosi added.
Schumer was equally slashing.
'Having failed to get Mexico to pay for his ineffective, unnecessary border wall, and unable to convince the Congress or the American people to foot the bill [Trump] has shut down the government,' the New York Democrat said.
'American democracy doesn't work that way. We don't govern by temper tantrum. No president should pound the table and demand he gets his way or else the government shuts down, hurting millions of Americans who are treated as leverage.'
In his own speech, Trump noted Schumer's past approval of a wall on America's southern border. The White House has promoted the historical fact of Schumer and former senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all voting for it during the George W. Bush presidency.
Schumer 'has repeatedly supported a physical barrier in the past, along with many other Democrats,' he said. 'They changed their mind only after I was elected president. Democrats in Congress have refused to recognize the crisis.'
Trump cited statistics in his brief presentation, saying that in the past two years immigration officers 'made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records,' including '100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes and 4,000 violent killings.'
'Thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now,' he urged.
A woman walks a dog next to the U.S.-Mexico border barrier along the Pacific Ocean on January 8, 2019 in Tijuana, Mexico
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez slammed Trump in a statement after Tuesday night's speech, which he characterized as '[l]ies, fearmongering, finger-pointing, and a manufactured excuse for shutting down the government.'
'Using the Oval Office to deceive the American people and spout offensive, anti-immigrant rhetoric proves, once again, that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president,' he said.
New Mexico Democratic Sen. Tom Udall said in a statement that Trump 'needs to end his shutdown now, before his reckless tantrum hurts more New Mexico families. New Mexicans didn't hear anything new tonight from the president. Instead, they just heard more fear-mongering about immigrants, and dishonest and out-of-touch talk about the border from a president who doesn't know the first thing about border communities.'
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel praised Trump for 'fighting for a solution to fund our government while protecting American citizens, versus the approach of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer which is to resist, resist, resist at all costs. It wasn't always this way.'
But Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California claimed Trump 'knows that illegal border crossings are at record lows, down 75 percent from 2000.'
She said her party won't support 'spending billions and billions of dollars on a wall that won't help protect our country. It's not realistic. It's not necessary. And it's not where we should focus our attention or resources.'
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Main photo article President Donald Trump claimed he didn’t slam his hand on the table during a contentious meeting at the White House with congressional leaders and accused Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of lying about what happened.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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