WASHINGTON (NBC NEWS) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly canceled a planned meeting with top congressional Democrats one week before a potential government shutdown.

In a long social media post, Trump wrote that after “reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands” that Democrats are making, “I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive.”

He unloaded on Democrats and said any meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., would be conditioned on their changing their posture.

“I look forward to meeting with them if they get serious about the future of our Nation,” he wrote on Truth Social, while inveighing against Democratic calls to repeal portions o

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