Trump Threatens to Shutdown Government if No $ for his Border Wall

[Anonymous]

Trump is off his rocker. He thinks the wall is mostly built.

“People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built,” Mr. Trump wrote in one of the messages. “If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!”

....People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built. If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!

It was not clear what Mr. Trump was referring to. American troops he dispatched to the border on the eve of midterm congressional elections as part of what the president called an effort to head off a migrant “invasion” have put up concertina wire along existing fences and barriers, but the administration has yet to spend much of the $1.3 billion Congress approved for border security last year. Under restrictions put in place by Congress, none of that money could be used to construct a new, concrete wall of the sort the president has said is vital.

The president does not have the legal authority to spend money appropriated for one purpose on another task, such as wall-building.

[Anonymous]

Trump is correct that most of the wall that can be built (that is not on private land or inhospitable land) has already been built.

So what is this shutdown about again?

[Anonymous]

If most of the wall has been built according to Trump's own words then why do they need so much money?

[Anonymous]

Best Thing he can do! Beltway types will not approve. But just about everyone else not dependent on the gov tit will approve

[Anonymous]

And now, there is no more "invasion."

Why are our troops still there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best Thing he can do! Beltway types will not approve. But just about everyone else not dependent on the gov tit will approve

I know, the wall is so popular, and so are shutdowns! They always work out well!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best Thing he can do! Beltway types will not approve. But just about everyone else not dependent on the gov tit will approve

The remaining Republicans in Congress do not seem pleased.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nancy Pelosi after the meeting:

“It’s like a manhood thing with him — as if manhood can be associated with him,” she deadpanned. “This wall thing.”

Trump has no idea who he's messing with.

She was such a badass today.

[Anonymous]

Pence looked and acted like the kid of an alcoholic Dad, "Please don't engage with him when he's in a rage. You'll just make it worse. Let him rage and eventually he'll pass out." Geez.

[Anonymous]

Trump said large parts of the wall are already built. Time to move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But wait...Trump said MEXICO would pay for the Wall.

Shumer and Pelosi should have reminded him of this and asked what happened?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But wait...Trump said MEXICO would pay for the Wall.

Shumer and Pelosi should have reminded him of this and asked what happened?

They did and Trump mumbled some nonsense about Mexico paying through the new trade deals. It's there in the meeting transcript.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pence looked and acted like the kid of an alcoholic Dad, "Please don't engage with him when he's in a rage. You'll just make it worse. Let him rage and eventually he'll pass out." Geez.

That’s so true and pathetic that he’s the leader of our country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The GOP owns both houses and they still can get this dime. Bunch of losers.

They know that if they do, the Democrats will make it all about racism - and use it as scare tactics for the 2020 election. Just look at how this forum reacts to comolaints about illegal immigration.

I can't beleive how twisted Democrats have become. If we want to protect our country against an unending stream of poor, unskilled, barely literate foreigners who arrive here in violation of our laws and will lower the overall caliber of our society, we're considered the bad ones. That's because liberals see inequality as the root of all evil, and want the U.S. to come down toward the level of 3rd world countries. It was Obama's vision for world peace.

It's the twisted Democrats that voted into office a guy who said Mexico would pay for the wall.

Most people knew that wasn't true. But we need strong action against illegal immigrants,

An acknowledgment that Trump is a liar!

They all lie to win the election. Obama sure did. It's the policies that count, and most Americans are appalled by the red-carpet welcome for illegal aliens they liberals put forth.

Trump is the lyingest liarn of them all! I doubt a single truth has passed his lips. He loves to claim to be the best, greatest, and and no. 1 at everything so I hope he accepts the mantle of the biggest liar of all time!

He's no more a liar than any of them. But you're a liberal and can't be objective.

It has been proven by multiple respectable journalists that our current President lies significantly more than the ones before him (of both parties).
But you know that.
You just want to excite everyone.

[Anonymous]

Aww. Little Donnie didn’t get his way and threw a tantrum.

Los Angeles Times White House correspondent Eli Stokols reported Tuesday that President Trump "stormed out" of the Oval Office after his contentious meeting with Democratic leaders and threw a folder full of papers out of frustration.

“He stormed out of the Oval, walked into an anteroom just off the Oval Office and had in his hand a folder of briefing papers. And he just scattered them out of frustration — threw them across the room," Stokols said on MSNBC's "Hardball," citing his own reporting with White House officials.