Trump Makes Another Call to Build 'A Great Steel Barrier or Wall' as Shutdown Negotiations Continue

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite



by Josh Feldman | Dec 22nd, 2018, 3:23 pm

President Donald Trump met with Republicans for a lunch this afternoon discussing border security, and following that lunch he tweeted once again his demand for a wall on the border.

Or at least a “great Steel Barrier”:

Link to tweet

In the past few days, Trump has talked several times about “beautiful steel slats” at the border, even sharing a crude illustration last night of what he’s envisioning.

Link to tweet

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this afternoon to the President that if he wants to end the shutdown, he needs to “abandon the wall.”

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[Blue Owl]

1. Nope. Don't want it or need it.

Now get that through your fat fucking head, Diaper Donnie!!!

[SergeStorms]

9. It's not like Trump would...

pay the contractors who put it up anyway.

[shraby]

2. Looks like prison bars to me, if you cut off the very top.

[cstanleytech]

24. Well if he really wants to be behind prison bars that bad then I think we should help him

out.
Heck maybe he can get together with some of his associates there like Manafort and they can talk about old times.

[JudyM]

3. Because he loves steel.

[iluvtennis]

4. What an idiot. #TrumpShutdown.

[truthisfreedom]

5. Why does the SUV in front of that black picket fence

Have a distinct green stripe? Some subliminal suggestion of environmental friendliness? Where are the solar cells he’s been touting?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

7. Because that's what Border Patrol trucks look like.

[agingdem]

10. I live on the border...

that truck..la migra...immigration

[docgee]

8. My first impression is it was like the car in Jurassic Park,

But then I thought it was like the color of Pepe the frog.

But then the Google told me it is what an actual border patrol car looks like.

[regnaD kciN]

6. John Dingell responded to that graphic tweet...

...with “Sit on it, imbecile.”

[Thekaspervote]

11. I'd be willing bet dotard has some hair brain scheme that will funnel wall money to him

[Destroy76]

12. Beautiful wall vs ugly wind turbines

He says that wind turbines are ugly but continues to say all his wall ideas are beautiful.

[Eliot Rosewater]

23. Good observation. To be fair to donnie, he never tells the truth, changes his story every 5

minutes so if he said turbines were ugly to one crowd you can be certain there was a crowd he told they were just fine.

He is the single worst human alive who hasnt with his own hands killed people.

[Hulk]

13. Not a damned dime.

Not a cent!

Maybe we can set up claymore mines and trip wires all around the country?? This fence looks lethal. Fuck him! The are going to go around or tunnel under the “campaign promise”.

[Wrz]

14. Borders are just imaginary lines

Borders are just imaginary lines drawn up by arrogant people. The Roman Empire had borders - where are they now? We all bleed red. What happened to the U.S. that allowed everyone who arrived to Ellis Island to become part of our country? We need to return to that -- anyone who wants to can come and stay here, period. Instead of $5Bn being used to build a wall, have it spent to hire workers to tear down the existing fencing and install permanent water and shelter stations on the border - to protect migrants from sunlight and provide first aid kits, etc.

If our elected officials had even an ounce of compassion, anyone who wants to be here would be allowed to and would be naturalized with no bureaucratic hurdles. Give them a year or two of SNAP, WIC, TANF, Medicaid, and Section 8 as applicable until they land on their feet. This is what a compassionate country would do. Incentivize employers to have supervisors that are fluent in both English and Spanish. Establish both English and Spanish, possibly others as official languages of the U.S. much like French and English are in Canada. Appropriate funding to provide free public translator social workers that are available in every county to assist new immigrants.

Abolish all attempts to restrict the flow of human beings from crossing some imaginary line. End the insanity.

Contraband is going to get in either way, whether it's brought in illegally or walked in through legal migrant means. That's a separate issue, but I'm in favor of legalizing all forms of recreational drugs and taxing them, with common sense regulations as to labelling etc. Price them cheaply so that violent organizations cannot compete because their products will be inferior and more expensive.

If some huge wall is built, then tunnels will be built under it to facilitate smuggling and 'coyote' migrant services. It's all for nought.

[dpibel]

17. Gosh!

You sound just like one of those many Democrat Party members who vote for open borders!

Welcome to DU, bro!!

[NotASurfer]

15. Die Ruinenwerttheorie

It's not about border security

Sounds more like he wants a monument to himself so grandiose that people will still be awed in a thousand years as they gaze upon the ruins

The same thing Nazi architect Speer proposed after they achieved victory for the monuments to themselves and Der Fuehrer. In that example, the goal involved use of both epic scale, and durable materials. The resort to metal spikes, which rust and will be targets for recycling, by the Gropenfuehrer smells of desperation

It's about ego. About some recognition, however dim, of mortality. About leaving something behind that will endure beyond history's ability to record, in painful detail, the shame and inadequacy of both his not-even-attempted administration, and of him personally

As his time nears its end, all that remains is the increasingly desperate drive to leave something, anything, no matter how transient, that leaves a physical reminder (the sole proof in his own mind, that denies records and written history) of his existence

It's not about border security

[japple]

16. Looks like prison bars to me.

n/t

[DesertRat]

18. And it can be tunnelled under

A drug tunnel between Arizona and Mexico was found under a vacant Kentucky Fried Chicken in a border city.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/us/drug-tunnel-arizona-mexico-trnd/

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. Using the SUV as a guide, his illustration shows a fence about 40 feet high

That's 2/3 the height of Air Force One's tail.

BTW, don't forget the GoFundMe for ladders: https://www.gofundme.com/ladders-to-get-over-trump039s-wall

[Grasswire2]

20. negotiations are not continuing

He met with Republicans. No Dems.

[sakabatou]

21. Because tunnels, planes and boats don't exist

[jmowreader]

22. I realize I'm a little cynical about this...

...but it seems to me that anyone with a cutting torch and a rebar bender (both of which are available off-the-shelf at Herramientas de Carga de Puerto de Tijuana) could make a hole in that thing wide enough to walk about thirty people through before La Migra could notice what was happening.