After North Korean missile launch, Trump blasts Chuck and Nancy

President Trump.
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After North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday, President Trump responded with a volley of attacks ... on Democrats.

Flanked at a White House press conference by two empty seats with name tags for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Trump first cryptically said he would "take care of" the test, then blasted the Democratic leaders for not coming to a White House meeting on a government shutdown in light of the launch. "They should be calling immediately and saying we want to see you, but probably they won't because nothing to them is more important than raising taxes," Trump said. Schumer and Pelosi had canceled plans to attend the meeting after the president attacked them in a tweet earlier Tuesday morning, saying "'Chuck and Nancy' ... want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a deal!"

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.