If you were wondering how bipartisan talks aimed at striking a comprehensive immigration deal are progressing, you needn’t speculate, because Donald Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to deliver a veritable deluge of exclamation point-ridden balderdash.
It was clear from the moment Trump caved to Nancy Pelosi last Friday that the President would be immediately confronted with all manner of feigned incredulity and simulated anger from the right-wing echo chamber. Predictably, Ann Coulter was first up to bat, calling Trump a “wimp”.
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Importantly, none of these pundits actually care about Trump or his wall. They’re all millionaires whose livelihood depends on whipping people into a frenzy, so when you see them lashing out on social media and ranting like lunatics on Fox News, do remember that that’s their literal job. Of course Trump doesn’t understand that. He’s being manipulated by media profiteers and it’s completely lost on him, which is all kinds of dangerous for policy.
During his Rose Garden address announcing the reopening of the government, Trump doubled down on his “vicious coyotes/ women taped up in vans” border horror stories. He also alluded to ranchers finding “prayer rugs” last week. As it turns out, he got all of that from a movie. Specifically, he appears to be referencing scenes from the sequel to Sicario, which I admittedly didn’t watch because I (rightly, according to reviews) assumed it couldn’t possibly be better than the original.
That’s pretty embarrassing for Trump and the media has now seized on it, running montages of the exact scenes from the movie that line up precisely with the President’s stories.
Rather than let it go, Trump is now cranking things up another couple of notches. He’s also dropping the idea that Democrats are free to “call the wall whatever they want” in favor of demanding that everyone call a spade a spade and a “WALL A WALL.”
Here he is talking about murder and comparing Mexico and Afghanistan:
Very sadly, Murder cases in Mexico in 2018 rose 33% from 2017, to 33,341. This is a big contributor to the Humanitarian Crises taking place on our Southern Border and then spreading throughout our Country. Worse even than Afghanistan. Much caused by DRUGS. Wall is being built!
Spoiler alert: Mexico is not Afghanistan. But you should note that Trump appears to be laying the groundwork to justify sending more troops to the border because as you’re probably aware, the number of troops he wanted to deploy in the service of fending off imaginary caravan “invasions” last year was greater than the number of troops fighting the Taliban.
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And hey, since the US is seemingly on the verge of striking a peace deal with the Taliban, I guess we can just “bring our boys home” and send them right down to the Mexican border.
Trump went on to call anyone who isn’t in favor of a wall insane. “With Murders up 33% in Mexico, a record, why wouldn’t any sane person want to build a Wall!”, he said/asked.
That doesn’t make any sense. By that logic, we should build a wall around Chicago and Baltimore.
Next, Trump insisted (again) that the wall is in fact already under construction (it’s not). To wit:
Large sections of WALL have already been built with much more either under construction or ready to go.
You might fairly ask what exactly it means for a “wall” to be “ready to go”. A wall is by definition inanimate, so it can’t be “ready” to “do” anything.
The “best” part of Thursday’s diatribe was undoubtedly Trump revoking everyone’s right to call his unbuilt wall something other than a wall. Here is his presidential decree:
Let’s just call them WALLS from now on and stop playing political games! A WALL is a WALL!
And here I thought a “wall is a wheel”.
I also thought a “wall is peaches”.
So, no more “wheels” and no more “peaches” – you will “stop playing games” and you will “call a wall a wall”, ok?!
Hilariously, Trump then claimed that it’s Democrats who refuse to engage with the facts and “evidence”. He also said the ongoing talks are a “waste of time” and assured the GOP that he’s “got you covered”, which presumably means he will declare a national emergency.
Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee are wasting their time. Democrats, despite all of the evidence, proof and Caravans coming, are not going to give money to build the DESPERATELY needed WALL. I’ve got you covered. Wall is already being built, I don’t expect much help!
Just a thought: the reason Democrats are having a hard time trusting the “evidence” could be because Trump’s “evidence” is lifted directly from Sicario: Day of the Soldado starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin.
Finally, Trump said this about Democrats:
Democrats are becoming the Party of late term abortion, high taxes, Open Borders and Crime!
As usual, you don’t know whether to laugh, cry or cry from laughing so hard.
We generally default to the latter.
Follow the money? What company is being considered for the contract to build the steel slat wall? Do they have any relationships that are ethically questionable? Drain the swamp?
Sicario 2 wasn’t as good as 1 but wasn’t bad either.
Nothing really to say on the idiocy of Donald Trump
Since the movie came out about June 2018, he must have viewed it in the WH theater. Who watched it with him? Jared and Jr., McTurtle and Miss Lindsay? He has described the scenes from the movie perfectly, women in vans with taped mouths, prayer rugs found in the desert, etc.
The only question is does he know it was only a movie and is clearly lying about the threat at the border OR does he think it was a national security report and a prepared documentary? Someone really should confront him when he starts on his rant again. Regardless of his response, it is a lose lose answer!
Either way it is past time for the 25th to be applied — call in the military, hog tie and haul his ass out of there! And any damned senator who objects goes with him!