The hashtag #TrumpShutdown, set up to blame President Donald Trump for the partial government shutdown, was the top worldwide trending topic since just before midnight Friday after lawmakers could not reach agreement on a continuing resolution to keep the government open.
However, the hashtag #SchumerShutdown is also trending high, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., getting a huge amount of blame, including from the White House, for the shutdown.
The anti-Trump hashtag reached number one at about an hour before midnight, the Washington Examiner reports. It rallied Democrats who opposed the short-term measure that had been supported by the White House and Republican leaders.
Earlier on Friday, Schumer shared a video from 2011, in which Trump told an interviewer that a shutdown "would be a tremendously negative mark on the president."
Schumer also used the #TrumpShutdown hashtag.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders used the anti-Schumer hashtag, in a in a tweeted official statement from the White House, wtih the statement itself blaming the shutdown on Schumer.
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