{"id":40379,"date":"2019-01-26T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40379"},"modified":"2019-01-26T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T02:15:01","slug":"donald-trump-just-made-a-fantastic-argument-against-building-his-idiotic-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40379","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Just Made a Fantastic Argument Against Building His Idiotic Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it took thirty-five days and cost about six billion dollars, and incalculable personal suffering, but the Trump Shutdown is now over (temporarily). To say that Donald Trump caved is putting it mildly. He folded like a counterfeit three dollar bill under pressure from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (who he calls <em>&#8220;Nancy&#8221;<\/em>). And true to form, he emerged from the White House to declare victory in an impotent display of pathetic groveling and forced bluster.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-head-pointing.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34647\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2540633089284804\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During Trump&#8217;s concession speech he revealed another repulsive side of himself as he admitted that the purpose of his wall is to hurt already suffering refugees by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40372\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killing any <em>&#8220;glimmer of hope&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> they might have for safety and freedom. And on Saturday morning he followed that up with a Twitter tantrum that was rife with callousness and delusion. This tweetstorm featured one posting that stood out as being a pretty darn good argument against the vanity wall that Trump has been so obsessed with:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have turned away, at great expense, two major Caravans, but a big one has now formed and is coming. At least 8000 people! If we had a powerful Wall, they wouldn\u2019t even try to make the long and dangerous journey. Build the Wall and Crime will Fall!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1089162706840707072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So if we have already turned away two <em>&#8220;caravans&#8221;<\/em> of asylum seekers, then why do we need to spend billions of dollars on a wall that most experts say will be useless? The next caravan can be handled exactly the way the previous two were, without the expense or the pain associated with shutting down the government in an infantile rage.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has actually admitted that our current ability to secure the border is perfectly adequate. There can be no credible argument that there is anything resembling an emergency at the border. So his yappy whining has no purpose other than to salve his ego. But he won&#8217;t let that stop him:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall. This was in no way a concession. It was taking care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the Shutdown with the understanding that in 21 days, if no deal is done, it\u2019s off to the races!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1088958154791100417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s set aside Trump&#8217;s deranged assertion that he didn&#8217;t concede. The larger point he is making here is that he finally recognizes that the shutdown he was proud to impose was actually causing great harm and misery to millions of innocent people. But in the same sentence he callously threatens to do it all over again, unconcerned about inflicting more pain. He&#8217;s like the bully who uses his victim&#8217;s hand to slap his own face while taunting <em>&#8220;Why do you keep shutting down yourself? Why do you keep shutting down yourself?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that Trump&#8217;s argument for his wall has backfired on him. While his original campaign promise was that Mexico would pay for wall, he has failed utterly to bring that about. Instead, he has since insisted that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40219\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the wall is being paid for<\/a><\/strong> by several different means in addition to Mexico, including: It would pay for itself, presumably by reducing unspecified expenditures on law enforcement; The new trade deal between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, which has nothing to do with wall funding as all the financial benefits of such a deal go to private industry; And the American taxpayer from whom he is currently demanding payment under threat of shutting down our government or declaring an unconstitutional national emergency. <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s four different payments for the same wall. How is that not a con game that would land anyone else in jail? Especially since the wall isn&#8217;t needed in the first place as Trump has now conceded on Twitter. And along with that concession, Trump has provided a couple of tweeted endorsements that are as phony as a con man&#8217;s paid shills. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1089159145268408320\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The first<\/a><\/strong> is by Fox News regular Matt Schlapp, who also happens to be married to Mercedes Schlapp, the White House Director of Strategic Communications. And <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1089201935926939650\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the second<\/a><\/strong> is a video produced by the <em>Daily Caller News Foundation<\/em>, which is run by Fox News host Tucker Carlson. So these are hardly independent affirmations of Trump&#8217;s wall fetish.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The more Trump talks and\/or tweets, the less Democrats need to make the case against Trump&#8217;s wall. He&#8217;s doing a mighty fine job of that all by himself. And the last person who would be surprised by that is special counsel Robert Mueller, who has seen Trump&#8217;s public statements as some of the most incriminating pieces of evidence against him, particularly with regard to obstruction of justice. This is just how Trump operates. He is so consumed by his narcissism that he truly believes that everything he says is brilliant and furthers his objectives. By the time he finds out how wrong he is, it will be too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it took thirty-five days and cost about six billion dollars, and incalculable personal suffering, but the Trump Shutdown is now over (temporarily). To say that Donald Trump caved is putting it mildly. He folded like a counterfeit three dollar bill under pressure from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (who he calls &#8220;Nancy&#8221;). And true to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,8],"tags":[554,33,1013,1293,1329,130,1247,25],"class_list":["post-40379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-immigration","tag-matt-schlapp","tag-mercedes-schlapp","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-robert-mueller","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-head-pointing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-avh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40356,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40356","url_meta":{"origin":40379,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Brain Shutdown: He Fails Pitifully to Grasp Pelosi&#8217;s Reply to Wilbur Ross on Food Banks","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/24\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"For much of the past two years there has been abundant talk about Donald Trump's unfitness to serve as president. 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