VIEIRA: So if there were a partial shutdown of the government come Friday, that would be OK with you.
TRUMP:
In my opinion--you know, I hear the Democrats are going to be blamed
and the Republicans are going to be blamed. I actually think the
president would be blamed. If there is a shutdown, and it's not going to
be a horrible shutdown because, as you know, things will sort of keep
going.
VIEIRA: Well, it's a partial shutdown, right.
TRUMP:
But if there is a shutdown I think it would be a tremendously negative
mark on the president of the United States. He's the one that has to get
people together.
VIEIRA: Right.
TRUMP: I'm a deal man. I've
made hundreds and hundreds of deals and transactions. He never did
deals before. How can you expect a man that's not a deal man that never
did a deal, other than frankly becoming president of the United States,
he never did a deal, how's he going to corral all these people to get
them to do a deal?
VIEIRA: So how would you do it now? Now you're in the Oval office right now, it's Wednesday.
TRUMP: I would get everybody together and we'd have a budget and it would get done.
VIEIRA: They've all gotten together.
TRUMP:
Well, that's because they don't have the right leader. You don't have
the right leader. This is the President of the United States has to get
this done, and I think he probably will. Now, I don't say "he." But I
think he and the group probably will get it done, but it's pretty sad
because the whole world is looking at us and laughing at us.
Ha ha.
