Senate Majority Leader John Thune issued a reality check to President Donald Trump on Monday as the president continued to press senators to rewrite their own rules.

Trump has been demanding several changes to advance his agenda, including eliminating the legislative filibuster, which has been a persistent obstacle to his SAVE America Act package of voting restrictions, and ending "blue slips," which allow senators to block certain executive and judicial nominees from their home states.

Those rules have long shaped how legislation and nominations move through the Senate, and changes to them would affect not just Trump’s priorities but the chamber’s broader balance between majority power and minority leverage. The filibuster has historically frustrated presidents in both parties, though it has often benefited Republicans more than Democrats, since a larger share of Republican priorities can be advanced through federal courts and budget bills.

Thune said there is still no appetite to make those changes, including among Republicans.

According to Semafor’s Burgess Everett, Thune told reporters that he has "sat down with about 20 Republicans, and on getting rid of the legislative filibuster, getting rid of blue slips, and there were 15 nos. So I mean, this is not an open question. It's just a fact, and the facts don't change."

Thune added that if Trump wants the changes to be considered in the Senate, he would need to persuade enough senators to change their positions.

"If [Trump] can change the facts and start moving some of those senators who are no's into yeses, then we have a different conversation," Thune told Everett.

Trump’s latest attack on the filibuster came earlier in the day, when he posted on Truth Social that Thune should not allow the Senate to adjourn until the changes are made. Trump wrote that "the Dumocrats will do it on day one, and can’t believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership. Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING \u0026 DEATH!"