Cruella de Vile has a great idea! Let’s put a mask on the border wall.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the entire border wall along the southern border with Mexico is going to be painted black to make it hotter and deter illegal immigration — and she credited President Trump with the idea.
Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall in New Mexico, where she also picked up a roller brush to help out with the painting.
And she starts gushing about height and depth.
She touted the height of the wall as well as the depth as ways to deter people seeking to go over or under the walls. And then Noem said Homeland Security was going to be trying black paint to make the metal hotter.
And the genesis of this genius gambit?
“That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally,” Noem said.
Wow! The felon thinks providing air support is not getting involved in a war.
President Trump’s Republican allies are putting pressure on him not to entangle the U.S. militarily in Ukraine after he signaled an openness to helping craft security guarantees for the embattled nation in its war against Russian aggression.
Trump and the White House on Tuesday insisted the U.S. would not put boots on the ground in Ukraine but floated the idea of providing air support using U.S. pilots and warplanes.
That came after a meeting on Monday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven other European leaders, during which they discussed security guarantees for Kyiv in lieu of allowing it into NATO, a red line for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
While the summit resulted in few specifics about what those security guarantees would entail, at one point a reporter asked Trump if the U.S. would send troops to Ukraine. Trump didn’t answer directly but said the U.S. would “help them out.”
Is this clown a plant for the clown in DC?
Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles has provoked an outcry on social media by arguing that Donald Trump deserves a third term as president.
“Give Trump a third term, give him a Peace Prize, and let him run D.C. as long as he wants,” Ogles, 54, wrote on X on Sunday, prematurely hailing Trump before he met with European leaders on Monday as he attempts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine after an unsuccessful summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week.
The congressman’s post was quickly annotated with a Community Note that pointed out that the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or acted as president… shall be elected to the office of the president more than once.”
I suppose, technically, if the felon just stays in office after cancelling all elections, he’s not violating the constitutinal prohibition on getting elected more than twice. An appointment and a usurpation are not elections.
And the article has this interesting comment, referring to the constitution.
The same founding document declares elsewhere, incidentally, that representatives and senators “shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution,” a condition of which Ogles may be in violation.
A Republican governor refuses to take part in the military occupation of DC.
Vermont’s Republican Gov. Phil Scott has declined to send the state’s National Guard to Washington, D.C., noting that he didn’t believe it to be a proper use of these troops.
“In the absence of an immediate emergency or disaster that local and regional first responders are unable to handle, the governor just does not support utilizing the guard for this purpose, and does not view the enforcement of domestic law as a proper use of the National Guard,” Scott’s chief of staff Jason Gibbs told Vermont Public on Friday.
The felon said he’s stopped wars. He cannot name even one.
President Donald Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize but can’t seem to remember where he’s brought peace.
During his sit-down with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday, Trump repeated his boast that he’s ended six wars since January.
But he went blank when trying to name the country involved in one of those peace deals.
“I solved major wars. I solved wars that have been going on for 31, 35, and 37 years,” Trump said. “A couple quicker ones. One that was gonna go into a full-blown deal very quickly, you know the one that I’m talking about—it was a big one.”
He did not specify what the “big one” was, leaving it to the reporters in the room to deduce.
There you have it. Wars around the globe are just like a fishing trip tale for the felon. But, to be fair, he finally did recall a war or two.
At the meeting, Trump gestured at various conflicts that he claimed to have solved, including places where his role in peace negotiations is disputed.
“India, Pakistan. We’re talking about big places,” he said, referring to a May ceasefire between the two nations.
On August 8, Trump presided over a joint peace declaration between Azerbaijan and Armenia, though that agreement “does not in itself completely end the conflict.”
Trump also referred to a peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, which was signed at the White House on June 27.
The deal, which Trump hailed as a “glorious triumph, attempts to end fighting between the Congolese government and M23, a Rwanda-backed insurgent group that has seized land in the eastern part of the DRC.
Have you noticed not even one of those accomplishments actually rises to the hype he’s given them?
Tan the Conman has Wicked Witch of the West level meltdown.
President Donald Trump lashed out at the criticism he’s faced for his Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, which failed to result in a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.
“The Fake News has been saying for 3 days that I suffered a ‘major defeat’ by allowing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to have a major Summit in the United States,” Trump wrote Sunday evening in a Truth Social post that did not mention the outcome of the summit. “Actually, he would have loved doing the meeting anywhere else but the U.S., and the Fake News knows this. It was a major point of contention!”
Trump argued that his critics wouldn’t have been pleased even “if we had the Summit elsewhere” because “the Democrat run and controlled media would have said what a terrible thing THAT was.”
Claiming “these people are sick,” Trump transitioned into boasting about improving the crime in Washington, D.C., and his efforts to “secure [the] Southern Border.”
“They even want CRIME IN D.C., and other BLUE Cities throughout our Country, but don’t worry, I won’t let that happen. Just like our now secure Southern Border (ZERO illegals in last 3 months!), our cities will be Secure and Safe, and D.C. will lead the way!”
Really, now, felon? Not even one person has entered the United States illegally in the last three months? Oh, but of course you cannot admit that has happened because you think it’s the president’s personal responsility if it does.