This will be the shortest article I’ve written on here yet — because it’s just that simple.

The media is tossing and turning deciding who to blame for the slow negotiations to reopen the government. After comprehensive research and hours of online digging (read: one youtube search) I unearthed the below video from Trump’s meeting with party leaders.

Remember this? You’d better. You were all there. You were literally all invited to be there. You like, recorded it and everything. And by my count, President Trump promised that the shutdown was his fault approximately eight times.

This one isn’t tough.

The President can gaslight the nation all he wants about where blame lies, but you have a very simple job. Your job is to tell the public what happened. And Trump asked for the blame. So now give it to him. Don’t let Donald Trump and his supporters infect you with their post-gaffe amnesia.

-Ben Chapman

Ben Chapman is a reporter and commentator in Illinois. He is a student in Food Science and Human Nutrition and ran for his local County Board in 2018.