Trump: US to 'begin cutting off' aid to countries associated with migrant caravan

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump on Monday said that the U.S. will begin to cut off or reduce aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador as citizens of those countries flee for the U.S. as part of a so-called caravan of migrants.

In a trio of tweets, the president escalated his rhetoric surrounding the group of migrants, declaring a national emergency as they approach the border and claiming that "unknown Middle Easterners" had joined the group.

Trump, in the tweets, did not offer any evidence for the charge that people from the Middle East were among those crossing the border.

"Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them," Trump wrote in a tweet.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412495-trump-us-to-begin-cutting-off-aid-to-central-american-countries?userid=229233

[Thomas Hurt]

1. cutting off aid to corrupt central american gov'ts will make all those people

want to go back.

That and I did not know we were sending aid to foreign countries to make their gov'ts force their people to stay in their own countries.

[MiniMe]

2. Congress has the power of the purse, not the president

IOW, tRump can say that all he wants, and like most other sh*t he says, it means nothing.

[gratuitous]

6. You're assuming he knows Civics 101

Naturally, Trump doesn't have the least idea. What I find curious is that the media don't seem to have a clue, either. The fact checkers will go to the ends of the earth to find some picayune detail that will render a Democrat's statement as "mostly true" instead of "100% true," but calling this ignoramus out in real time? Nope.

[htuttle]

3. He can't even do that on his own

Thankfully, he has no fucking idea how government works, or even how to do his own job.

[Separation]

4. Does he know how this works?

If you cut off the money to countries that are in this caravan, then they definitely will not have the money or assets to try to even stop them.

I dont know what's up with this caravan. I heard from Trump Acolytes, that suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome that they believe that this is some sort of democratic plot to make Trump look bad if/when they are intercepted by our border patrol or even National Guard. They think that Democratic donors are financing this so all the cameras will be there if something horrible goes down.

[safeinOhio]

5. Great, watch for Russia or China

to take up the slack and have bases in our hemisphere.