The internet loves a conspiracy, and a video of Donald Trump getting on the blower to Fox & Friends in 2014, just after he announced he was running for the presidency, has kicked off one which suggests that the current government shutdown was years in the planning.



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Trump on @FoxNews in 2014 claiming people like not having a job & that a US economic crash with riots will solve this problem & make America great again



The #TrumpShutdown is like no prior shutdown



Glad that 6 Republican Senators took the 1st step



Next caucus w Democrats ... pic.twitter.com/R5WEbkzxis — ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) January 25, 2019

Leaping off from a theme which informed a lot of his early campaigning, Trump was prattling on about how Obamacare was great for people who "don’t want to work". (Obamacare wasn't free, and it's hard to pay your premiums if you don't or can't work.) Then he went off on a tangent about how he'd go about fixing everything.

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"You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster," Trump said. "Then you’ll have a [chuckles], you know, you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great."

Hmm. For some, it's extremely tempting to see this as a straight-up admission that the current government shutdown is a calculated bid to turn America into a seething pit of malleable rage, and that before Trump had his inner circle of advisers he took most of his policy pointers from the first two Purge films.

That's a bit of a punt though. It's a bit like believing that the moon landings are faked, which would involve the complicity of about 150,000 people. Do you honestly reckon a man who spent $3,000 on McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and Domino's for an American football team, then posed for pictures with it while it went cold, is operating on that level? Really? Really?

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