Borderlandia
Trump has gone to Texas, even though he didn’t want to, so that he can…look studly on the border? Or something?
He does look hawt, you gotta admit.
CreditCreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
President Trump arrived in this border town Thursday on a trip that he did not want to take to discuss a crisis that Democrats say does not exist.
He’s helpless. If they tell him to go to this border town in Texas, he has to go.
But as the government shutdown neared the end of its third week, the president left Washington with no additional negotiations scheduled with congressional leaders. In remarks to reporters on Thursday, Mr. Trump left open the possibility of declaring a state of emergency, which could allow him to bypass Congress to fund the wall.
Asked if he would make such a declaration, an action that would likely face legal challenges, Mr. Trump said: “If this doesn’t work out, probably I will do it. I would almost say definitely.”
If what doesn’t work out? His trip to the border in Texas? He expects that to “work out”? Meaning, to convince the Democrats to agree to spending 5 billion dollars building his racist wall? Why would it do that? How could it?
In a meeting with network anchors on Tuesday ahead of his address to the nation, the president dismissed his trip to McAllen, a border community where crime is near a 30-year low, as a “photo op” that he was doing because his top communications advisers counseled him to.
I bet they didn’t advise him to tell network anchors that though.
In Texas, a crowd of supporters with flags and “build the wall” signs gathered near the Rio Grande before Air Force One landed on Thursday. While in Texas, Mr. Trump is expected to meet with Border Patrol officials who are being forced to work without pay because of the funding impasse.
Meet with them to do what? Tell them to hold garage sales? To make adjustments? To take up dog-walking?
To bolster his campaign for the wall, the president has also scheduled an interview with the Fox host Sean Hannity, who will broadcast his show Thursday night from McAllen. Mr. Hannity is one of the president’s highest-profile supporters and is highly influential among his political base.
Ah, great, that’s definitely the person we want running the country: Sean Hannity.
Does Hannity get secret service protection?
Just curious, he does after all seem to be a pivotal part of the government. Just not sure if it’s the propaganda department or the executive puppeteer.
Perhaps it’s both.
I wonder which movie props supplier provided all the scary stuff for the set dressing.
What’s with the sack of money? Have they just come back from a heist?
Catwhisperer, I suspect that would be confiscated drug money, since one of the things the border patrol do is fight the drug war. Why they would keep it in a plastic bag on the desk in plain view I have no idea. That would seem to be just plain ignorant.
Catwhisperer, it’s all props intended to send a message to the terminably gullible. “Lookit y’alls, this is what the average brown-skinned border jumper has hidden in their backpack. Lookit all them guns ‘n’ dollars, all y’alls, and multiply it by the millions of alyuns pourin’ inyo ‘Murca ev’ry minute. Scared enuff yet?”
Haha I knew it was all there for show really, I was just tickled by the idea of the world’s thickest man pulling off a huge robbery and then sitting in the middle of a pile of swag, somehow pretending he had nothing to do with the crime…. wait, now I’ve written that, I can see that it sums up his whole presidency. Well that’s taken all the joy out of imagining him shouting “You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”
Actually, it seems to sum up his whole life, and especially his whole career.
Catwhisperer, your comment about the robber sat with the swag reminded me of the Great Train Robbery, when after pulling off the heist the rather inept villains took the loot to a nearby farm building as an initial hideaway until the police had cleared the scene. To pass the time, they played Monopoly using some of the cash, then left, leaving the Monopoly set behind, complete with their fingerprints all over the box and board (and on cups, doors, windows, etc.).
Bonus points for the Italian Job reference, by the way.