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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:11 PM Jan 2018

Trump Waffles on Border: We Don't Need a 2,000 Mile Wall

Source: Mediate

by Lawrence Bonk | 1:59 pm, January 9th, 2018

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Earlier today, White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp told Brianna Keilar that, instead of an actual wall, the president is looking to build something called a “border wall system.” Now, Trump himself has weighed in, questioning the need for his long-beloved pet project.

The president has been meeting with members of both houses in order to try to come to some kind of bipartisan consensus on DACA and immigration reform in general. During this meeting, in which he expressed hope that immigration reform would become “a bill of love,” Trump dropped what may be something of a bombshell to his more hardline supporters.

“We don’t need a 2,000 mile wall,” he said. “We don’t need a wall where you have rivers and mountains and everything else protecting it, but we need a wall for a, uh, fairly good portion.”

Trump went on to laud a 2006 attempt to build a “substantial fence,” once again alluding to the rivers that would make building an actual wall so difficult, calling them “violent.” This tracks with what he told reporters aboard Air Force One last year, in which he called the rivers along our southern border “vicious.”


Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-waffles-on-border-we-dont-need-a-2000-mile-wall/





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Initech

(100,068 posts)
1. Didn't he say he wanted an invisible wall one time?
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:16 PM
Jan 2018

I know - we can just use a few laser projections and convince him that the wall has already been built. Problem solved!

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
3. HA!
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:18 PM
Jan 2018

I hope the Dems don't budge an inch. The Moron knows that this was just BS lies for the sake of his cult/base. He even told the Mexican president the same thing. He needed to save face and doesn't care about the wall at all. The Mexican president told him to drop dead (or close to it) when the Moron wanted to get some money for it from Mexico.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
6. Looking into the abyss Trump?? Dems, DO NOT cave on this crackpot BS.....
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:26 PM
Jan 2018

It will be BILLIONS blown for nothing other than FAT Guberment contracts for some wall builders.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
13. Yeah, you need to be careful of those
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:46 PM
Jan 2018

When you order Trump's special Shit Sandwich at his DC Hotel, it is served on two Trump Waffles.

Which are also made out of shit.

Solly Mack

(90,764 posts)
12. It's mind boggling that as dumb as that man is, his supporters are that much more so.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:32 PM
Jan 2018

His mouth always overloads (through his ignorance and false bravado) his butt and he always - always - rewrites what he says and what he does - and his supporters eat it up.

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)
16. What a dog and pony show that was with Dems and Repukes...
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:01 AM
Jan 2018

all that was missing was him dividing them up two two teams and go out and sell lemonade in the snow. Whoever comes back with a profit is the winner and the other fired.

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