Photos: Trump rocks it at the border wall in San Diego

American Thinker ^ | 09/19/2019 | Monica Showalter

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President Trump made a whirlwind tour through San Diego, exuding optimism, vim and vigor.

He was in full command at his press conference at the border wall, and the local press coverage, at least as seen on television, was strikingly positive. I watched the live coverage on the local stations here in San Diego. They just let him talk - a fairly long version is here and a shortened shareable form is here:

A local Fox News affiliate has a great second segment:

ABC's KGTV local affiliate's television coverage, including the post-visit analysis, was even better, but it's not on the web, so hard to share that. But I took camera shots of some of it below.

Trump sounded like a barking construction project manager in command of all the details at his appearance at the new border wall, enthusiastically describing its technical details as only a construction guy can. He spoke of the wall's effectiveness, the great change it made, and backslapped with the local construction workers in their orange vests. One of the little guys apparently spontaneously asked Trump to come sign the wall as the workers do, and Trump happily obliged.

He also praised the San Diego local officials, such as its Republican mayor, and even the Mexican and Central American governments for assisting in breaking up the illegal immigrant surge rackets, which he specifically noted were profiting cartels which plagued those countries. Talk about day following night. It all sounded like successful deal-making and the famously Trumpian 'win win.'

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Unlike most California officials, he seemed to have a good relationship with San Diego’s Republican mayor, and he certainly seemed to get along with Poway’s more conservative Republican mayor. Funny story revealed on KGTV:

The Poway mayor didn’t know that Trump was accompanied by his new National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, who had been appointed to the post that morning. The Poway mayor assumed the man next to Trump was a flunky and handed him his camera and asked him to take a picture of him with the president before the aghast, ahem, Secret Service intervened. Trump, meanwhile, sure as heck was happy with those leaders and was happy to tell everyone at the presser.

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Trump's meeting and obvious friendship with the rabbi whose Poway synogogue was the subject of a mass shooting, also a wonderful scene. The rabbi told him stuff, KGTV reported, and then Trump departed, and then the rabbi remembered something, so ran after him to make sure Trump knew.

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[Eleutheria5]

He should keep hitting the solid blue states, critiquing their deplorable state, pushing his agenda, and tweeting them into comas. Focus on the states where he has a base, but keep buzzing the blues.

[Hostage]

His father made him work his butt off and he had to be approved by all the construction trades foremen before he was allowed to advance in his father’s business.

His only downtime was church on Sundays, seriously that’s all he was allowed and was made possible at the insistence of his mother who required the whole family to attend every Sunday without excuse.

To say Donald knows a lot about construction is an understatement. And the whole family is that way especially Eric. Each was made to work very hard to accomplish skills and knowledge.

[bert]

John Kerry qand maybe Baqrack Obama wuld have worn a hard hat...... OSHA ya’ Know

One wonders if the wall is being built with Union Labor?

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[TheConservativeTejano]

Photos: Trump rocks it at the border wall in San Diego

Partner, Thank God we have President Trump as our POTUS.

President Trump will get that Southern Border Wall built and it will be 30' high. We will get a continuous Southern Border Wall Built from El Paso to San Diego, California. We do not want any Mexicans coming thru nor do we want any folks from Central America coming through and enough is enough of these Illegal Aliens.

We saw an article where the Generals told President Trump that they can only build about 10 miles of fencing on the Southern Border Wall. President Trump will get these Generals fired and get replacements for them, since they were hired by that "American Hating Piece of Work Obama."

The Military gave him about 10 Billion dollars since the "Do Nothing" Peoples Congress led by Miss Pelousy gave "0 Dollars" for the Southern Border Wall. We can build 2 Refineries for $10 Billion dollars. Give us a break.

President Trump knows that he is fighting the "Powerful Drug Cartels in Mexico", since they have gotten into getting the Illegal Aliens into the U.S.A for $$$ of course.

[TheConservativeTejano]

To say Donald knows a lot about construction is an understatement. And the whole family is that way especially Eric. Each was made to work very hard to accomplish skills and knowledge.

Partner, Thanks for this statement and it is so true! Thanks again.

[1Old Pro]

the local press coverage, at least as seen on television, was strikingly positive

No National Coverage and the legacy msm wonders why they have zero credibility.

[1Old Pro]

He should keep hitting the solid blue states, critiquing their deplorable state, pushing his agenda, and tweeting them into comas. Focus on the states where he has a base, but keep buzzing the blues.

Blue states that don't have the corrupt Dem cities that outweigh the rest of the state.

[BeauBo]

Lots of great info came out at the press conference by the wall, from authoritative sources (my speculation is bracketed below, like this comment).

Catch and release ends next week!

Only four attempts to breach the new bollards have been made - all failed. (The old Secondary Barrier (which was the tougher one of the two), was routinely breached (cut through) about two to three times a day.) Strong concrete is specified in the bollards - 5,000 lbs minimum compressive strength flirts with the threshold of special purpose high-strength concretes. The two very thick rebars (Apparently over an inch thick) in each bollard also have a "very strong" specification. (The rebar is positioned in a very deliberate pattern, apparently a conscious design feature)

What used to be 300-500 apprehensions per day in San Diego City, has already fallen to 30-50 per day - and those arrests are only in places where the secondary is not yet complete. It is due to complete in January.

After that, illegal traffic in the sector will be going around the wall, rather than over or through it - door closed.

(On 3 Sep, SecDef announced that Military Construction money is going to be used to further extend the San Diego Primary and Secondary barriers about three miles further East, up over Otay Mountain, where no barrier existed before, to close the gap to the next run of pre-existing bollards. The cartels that fought to control San Diego traffic, like the Sinaloa Cartel, are going to lose their whole business there.)

Now the official count is 66 miles complete. 251 more miles in various stages of construction at 17 sites and contracts for 163 miles (262 kilometers) planned in the next 90 days. According to LTG Semonite, additional miles are also in the currently funded pipeline, but will take longer due to the acquisition of private land.

Currently, 270 panels are installed per day - that would be 2.835 miles per week, based on 7 days a week; or a touch over 2 miles per week based on 5 days per week.

Although not definitively quantified, LTG Semonite alluded to a coming large increase in the number of crews that will be working simultaneously. Although not a precise correlation, he spoke of 35 jobs, and that some contractors would use multiple crews on particular jobs. (In my estimation, it would therefore be possible that the pace of construction might peak toward two miles per day at some point, and that a mile per day will be common next year.)

Also new and significant, the President spoke about a pause to re-assess barrier needs somewhere around 400-500 miles of wall - see how actual traffic shifts shape up (e.g. some people had estimated that Laredo, Texas might get more diverted traffic, but Del Rio, Texas saw a surprising surge).

(There was an implication that possibly 450-550 miles of this kind of barrier, might end up being all that is needed. The comprehensive plan called for 1,100 miles of barrier, but in places with double barrier, that would be half as many linear miles. So far, San Diego, Tecate, Calexico, Andrade and the Goldwater Test Range (31 miles just there) are already designated for double barrier construction.)

(The President might just be floating a new position during the Congressional debate over next year’s funding - which is likely to extend into the next fiscal year with continuing resolution funding for a few months. So it might also signal that he he is preparing an escape position, if no more funding comes through. But my take is that it is just objective good management to aim before shooting, and adjust fire as the enemy moves.)

(It is also possible that the re-assessment might just re-order the priority list for barrier construction, and not so much the total requirement.)

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We will get a continuous Southern Border Wall Built from El Paso to San Diego, California

*******

That’s about 1/2 the border which is much better than what exist today.

[Eleutheria5]

No. Show up there, too. Make them even more paranoid, encourage meltdowns and anti-fa brutality in front of phone cameras. Mayor London of Frisco has given us golden sound bites about his sewage system, which keeps all needles and human feces out of the ocean and bay. And all of this will circulate to all fifty states, via Internet, word of mouth, Trump rally talking points, Twitter and Facebook, Rush and FNC...

Sure they’ll carry California, because they have corrupt cities all over. But California will solidify Detroit, Texas, Iowa and Pennsylvania, possibly help win over New Mexico and New Hampshire...

It’ll be another of 1001 reasons to vote for Trump.

[TheConservativeTejano]

Partner, this is a great posting of the actual building of the Southern Border Wall with Mexico. Thanks again for this great post.

President Trump is a builder and we have not had a builder POTUS since President Eisenhower.

It sounds like the Drug Cartels which are into the Illegal Alien business big time is using steel torch cutters and this will be stopped once we get all the wall built and the B.P. will be able to monitor any intrusions into our Southern Border Wall.

There will be a payback to the Peoples Congress for not appropriating The money for the Southern Border Wall.

[thinden]

He should keep hitting the solid blue states, critiquing their deplorable state, pushing his agenda, and tweeting them into comas. Focus on the states where he has a base, but keep buzzing the blues.

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great strategy

stay on offense

[BeauBo]

“President Trump knows that he is fighting the “Powerful Drug Cartels in Mexico””

That is something that does not get a lot of public attention, but comes through from some of the Military’s discussion of their border support and barrier construction efforts.

The cartel’s operating at the various points across the border are the subject of deliberate Intelligence collection and analysis, like enemy forces. They are subject to new deliberate plans/strategies to disrupt and defeat them by the Military and Law Enforcement (likely the Intelligence Community as well), as a result of President Trump’s Executive Orders.

Things are changing on many fronts at once for those cartels. It is going to be an unprecedented challenge for them.

[thinden]

great new banner

[1Old Pro]

No. Show up there, too.

He came to upstate NY last time around for a 15,000 people rally even though he knew he'd lose New York. He only has so much time, I trust they will spend it well and strategically like last time.