No. Only real Americans (donnies voters) respond to being painted in a corner by rage and destruction resulting in getting what they want: American Exceptionalism they call it. Mexicans will obey the great white leaders in washington. They’re different.
No, you guys don’t understand his 7D chess moves. His plan is to make the US so horrible that Mexico will build a wall on their side of the border to keep us out. US doesn’t pay, US doesn’t lose the Rio Grande or anything like that, and the wall gets built!
It’s win win win!
Except for those of us on the wrong side of the wall of course.
I thought he’s only signed executive orders.
Incidentally, I really love Trump’s comment on the wall here:
[QUOTE=Donald Trump]
Now, I could wait a year and I could hold off the wall. But I wanna build the wall. We have to build the wall. We have to stop drugs from pouring in. We have to stop people from just pouring into our country. We have no idea where they’re from.
[/QUOTE]
Wait… so, you’re building a wall specifically on the border with Mexico to stop illegal immigrants from getting in but you don’t know where the illegal immigrants from Mexico are from?
What’s fascinating, though, he that he’s now conflating the wall with NAFTA and implying the wall is what will stop job and companies from leaving the USA - seriously, watch the interview. Uh, no. But he’s starting to build that connection for the Trumpists; that way, if some sort of wall goes up but there’s still illegal immigrants around (Which of course there will be) he can say the wall wasn’t to keep them out, it was to keep jobs in.
Try signing it. I tried signing this one, and my signature didn’t get tallied. Actually, the guy who did the English voiceover for the video linked in the petition I signed is a friend and high school classmate of mine, and when he posted a link to the petition on his Facebook page with a comment that life imitated art, I tried to sign the petition because I’ve never seen one on the White House site with only one signature.
Then a friend of mine noticed that the signature counts for petitions don’t seem to be working anymore, and several new petitions also only showed one signature.
I think the We the People portion of the Whitehouse.gov site is about to be dismantled. Which is more than a little disturbing.
Former presidente Vicente Fox has a much more colorful response.
First, does anyone else remember when the Mexican cartel violence was at its worst a few years ago, there was talk of it heading to failed-state status? As I recall, the worry was that it would cause us serious border problems and if things got bad enough we could have an honest-to-goodness refugee crisis right on our border. I don’t know what it would take to cause Mexico to descend into chaos, but destroying its economy might be a good start.
Second, I’ve understood (?) that Mexico has earnestly participated in the war on drugs, at great cost in blood and treasure, in an effort to maintain its relationship with the US. It’s not hard to imagine a policy of focusing resources on domestic drug problems and de-prioritizing export operations. Wall or no, I don’t think that would be to the US benefit.
So, the Secret Service gave a secured phone to the Cheeto in chief and even when his yes men **complained **Trump has ignored them so far.
We have a president that does forget quickly even lessons that he had learned already.
I see the big Cheeto still has no clue as to what is on the border between San Diego & Tijuana, which drug- and people-smugglers simply tunnel under.
I was writing a story back in high school about the giant wall on the Mexican/American border, with huge gunnery towers manned by soldiers whose job it was to shoot Americans trying to escape into Mexico…
Maybe I had a glimpse of the future!
So, Trump apparently actually has a way to make Mexico pay for the wall: a 20% tax on imports.
Which would get passed on to American consumers, so it’s American consumers who actually would pay for the wall. And it would devastate the Mexican economy, causing more migrants to the US.
But otherwise, it’s a brilliant plan.
He thinks the wall can be built for less than $64 billion? And how does he plan to pay for maintenance?
A 30% tax?
I wonder if President Dumb Fuck thinks his proposal means “Mexico is paying for the wall.” OK, thought about it, yeah, the retarded cunt really is that stupid.
Extended warranty.
The chief of the Border Patrol has been forced out.
Callista Gingrich is being considered as Ambassador to the Vatican. I wonder what the Vatican thinks of having an adultress as the US ambassador.
Hold on a sec. Trump wants to expand the Border Patrol by 5000? Didn’t he just impose a hiring freeze?