The Senate failed to get the votes Friday night to keep the government funded, causing it to shutdown at midnight and #TrumpShutdown to trend worldwide.
Hollywood stars were among the first to react to the news and, for the most part, they were pretty harsh on President Donald Trump and his administration.
Josh Gad took it seriously, tweeting, “A Republican Senate. A Republican Congress. A Republican President. An American travesty,” while Michael Ian Black quipped: “I honestly feel like I work harder than Trump and I barely do anything.”
Here are a handful of other tweets:
Trumpty-Dumpty
Sat on his wall
Trumpty-Dumpty
Dropped the ball
All of his lackeys
And all of his clowns
Couldn't prevent a #TrumpShutdown— Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) January 20, 2018
A Republican Senate. A Republican Congress. A Republican President. An American travesty. #TrumpShutdown
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) January 20, 2018
So will ICE take some time off from tearing families apart now?
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) January 20, 2018
To put it in his terms: “He said it already, no backsies!” https://t.co/DrV0t87Onj
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson (he/him/his) (@jessetyler) January 20, 2018
Oh god what happens now is it the purge
— josh groban (@joshgroban) January 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/954577548205228032
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— John Cusack (@johncusack) January 20, 2018
The Republicans are shutting down the government in fear of 32 percent of the American people…or less. The big babies. (sorry babies) #TrumpShutdown
— Mo Gaffney ? (@mogaffney) January 20, 2018
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On the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration, the Senate rejected a government funding measure 50-49 Friday night that would have kept the government open for four more weeks. This came after the president turned away a bipartisan proposal protecting hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants while increasing border security measures.
Foreseeing a stalemate, Democrats began using the hashtag #TrumpShutdown Friday before the vote, and it didn’t take long for it to top Twitter’s Worldwide Trends list.
