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?
Lol. Trump kept some of his promises. RATs keep none, unless they are destructive promises.
I believe “Mexico paying for the wall” was not that they’d send a check, but rather through the new trade agreement that Trump did get done.
https://youtu.be/1UgOv62xOiQ?si=wRGg3htqq9g0XyZ4
Is this all they got?
“...make Mexico pay for it”
Yea we knew that was never going to happen.
I agree - so what was the point in him saying it?
I didn’t expect Trump to fulfill his “campaign promise” to have Bowe Bergdahl tossed out of an airplane from an altitude of 30,000 feet, either.
Things have changed. 2024 Trump campaign slogan: Build the swamp!
Trump said, “Not drain the swamp, in this case you have to build the swamp.Can't make this stuff up.
In this case we’ll build one.” --October 29, 2023 SouixFallsCity, Iowa
So I’ll guess that this dope wants me to vote for the crook who proceeded to sell the unfinished portion of the wall as scrap ?
Zachary Faria is not smart enough to understand American politics. Zach said, “He lied to you about the biggest promise he made last time.” False. Trump told the truth about the wall and built 60% of it.
Trump was saying that Mexico was indeed paying for the border wall.
Trump was right again Mexico had to pay it’s army of 25 thousand to guard it from their side.
He know how trade works
I never expected Mexico to pay or Hillary Clinton to be locked up.
It was enough that illegal immigration was curbed and Hillary was kept out of the White House.
If it mattered, it would have been possible to propose taxing postal money orders to foreign countries and say that Mexico was paying for the wall, but Congress wasn’t likely to pass such legislation.
I do wish Trump would stay on message (or get on message to begin with) and resist the temptation to show off his cleverness.
The guy who wrote this should just get repeatedly punched in the mouth for lying.
Liars need to get punched in the mouth.
The guy who wrote this should just get repeatedly punched in the mouth for lying.
Liars need to get punched in the mouth.
People like you want this kind of abuse, and here it is, with more to come...
He DID fight the swamp, and in case you haven’t noticed, he hasn’t surrendered to it. He’s been fighting the swamp for 7 years. Pay attention.
Yup—Hillary is still walking around—after the most blatant national security breach in the history of the country with her home brew server.
The laws are not the biggest problem. The government’s unwillingness to enforce them, is.
Both are a problem. We currently have laws that favor it at the federal and state level?
Is there a fundraising email yet? ...Make Swamps Great Again...
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