Posted on 11/01/2023 11:21:28 AM PDT by HonorInPa
If you expect former President Donald Trump to fulfill even one campaign promise he is making for 2024, you would have to explain why he is openly mocking the idea that he could fulfill the promise that defined his entire candidacy in 2016. The core promise of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was that he would build a wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it. This is what defined his tough-on-illegal-immigration approach, and he even mocked detractors who said that he would not or could not possibly do it. As late as October 2020, less than one month before he lost reelection, Trump was saying that Mexico was indeed paying for the border wall.
Now, sitting on the outside and asking GOP voters to give him the nomination once again, Trump admits it was all a charade. In Iowa, Trump said that “we all had a lot of fun” but “there was no legal instrument” to make Mexico pay for the wall. That thing he promised time and again, both as a candidate and all the way to his last days as president, was never possible. Not only that, according to Trump, you are a “loser” if you point out that Mexico never paid for the wall that Trump promised it would pay for.
It was all a sham. Trump knew, if not when he was a candidate then certainly when he was president, that he would not follow through on it. He kept up the charade until he was booted from office. Now, he thinks you’re a loser if you ever believed it, but he wants to tell you all about the new campaign promises he is making. Sure, he lied to you about the biggest promise he made last time, but would he really be lying to you again?
This charade is the problem with Trump’s entire campaign. Just about every promise he makes now comes with the nagging question of why he didn’t do it the first time. Do you really believe he is going to “shatter the deep state” when he already had four years to do it and didn’t even try? Now, what promise are you willing to believe from Trump when he is openly telling you that the biggest promise he made during his entire first campaign and four-year term was always a sham?
The Wall was a sham?
And here I thought “Lock her up” was the biggest sham.
Liberal bull
Uh writer Zach, he had the swamp to deal with.
He said that on 60 Minutes right after he won.
I didn’t care who paid for the wall I just wanted it built. This is just another anti-Trumper screed.
He promis3ed he would fight the swamp, not surrender to it.
The reality is no wall will end illegal immigration, as long as our laws incentivize it. That’s basic conservative economics.
Or repeal and replace.
Infrastructure week.
I guess it didn’t cost Mexico anything to provide 28,000 troops to guard the border.
He was in the process of building a wall but it was one of the first things the Dems shut down along with the xl pipeline and drilling. Look at where we are now.
What a trash article. Loser alert.
He got Mexico to provide 26,000 soldiers to protect our border free of charge. I’d say that was a good deal.
My fourth page goes back to August.
The poster has all the earmarks of a sleeper cell here to foment division.
-PJ
What the humorless Left fail to understand is the hysterical way Trump communicates his ideas. This statement always was a huge hit, and MAGA folks understood it to mean he would make it a priority to slow immigration and begin a better wall system, which he did both. And we all had a good laugh, except the Left, they developed TDS.
And the swamp with do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to preserve and grow its power over us.
This is the biggest steaming pant load I’ve read in quite a while.
Trump was never going to get Mexico to write a check for the wall. We all knew that. But forcing people to STAY in Mexico means their costs are borne by Mexico and we can reduce the hundreds of billions we spend on illegal invaders — those savings alone would pay for the wall many times over.
Anybody who actually thought Trump meant that Mexico was going to write us a check is / was a fool. Write Zach is a libtard fool for even suggesting it.
we have open borders
who else is talking about building a wall?
who else has actually built any of the wall?
So Trump was supposed to be David against Goliath and knock out the swamp with one stone?
Why post this tripe? Please put a Barf Alert! on this!!!
They are not following the law. We don’t need new laws.
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