Posted on 12/20/2018 9:37:41 AM PST by Kaslin
During a presidential campaign, candidates are known to promise everything under the sun to win. You name it, someone has promised it to voters, and more. It’s a trade-off we’re all come to accept and expect. But every candidate, buried under the avalanche of campaign BS, does have a few core things they really will work to accomplish. With Donald Trump, one of those things, perhaps THE thing, was a wall on our southern border to stop the illegal alien invasion. Now, that wall is looking a lot more like “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” than something that will actually happen.
This is not just me talking. On my podcast yesterday, I spoke with Ann Coulter, who was an early, eager, and vocal supporter of Donald Trump’s candidacy – even writing the book, “In Trump We Trust.” It doesn’t seem like she trusts President Trump as much anymore.
The border wall was the priority of Coulter, whose book “Adios, America,” helped inform the Trump campaign’s immigration policy. So when the President was unequivocal about this demand for $5 billion to build some of the wall last week with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi or he’d allow the government to shut down, those of us concerned with our country’s sovereignty saw it as a line in the sand we could get behind.
It was refreshing to hear a politician speak plainly, to say they want to fulfill a campaign promise and are willing to go to great lengths to do it.
Then this Tuesday happened.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in an interview with Fox News, started to walk back that rhetoric, to blur the line. She seemed to indicate that the White House would be willing to forego a straight $5 billion in exchange for avoiding a shutdown and a willingness from Democrats to work to find a way to shift money around from elsewhere to pay for construction.
We’ve heard this song before – Democrats get what they want now (avoiding a shutdown without having to take a tough vote) and Republicans get a promise of some future action on their priorities. It’s the “Wimpy Rule” – I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. Only Tuesday never comes.
Coulter was not buying it. Without a wall, she told me she would not vote for Donald Trump’s reelection in 2020. “No. Nor will, I think, most of his supporters. Why would you? To make sure, I don’t know, Ivanka and Jared could make money? That seems to be the main point of the presidency at this point,” she said.
Without a wall, “Trump will just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populists for a while, but he’ll have no legacy whatsoever,” she said.
That coming from Donald Trump’s biggest cheerleader in 2016 should serve as a wake-up call for the White House.
We all expect politicians to break their promises, it’s what they do. And even though the Trump wasn’t a politician before being elected, it’s tough to make the case that the President of the United States is not a politician. So when the tax cuts weren’t as large as promised, it was fine – that’s part of the negotiating process. But we did get tax cuts. The economy is booming, unemployment is at near-record lows. Promise kept. But to truly get “tired of winning,” there needs to be a victory on THE promise of his campaign, and we don't see it.
The threat of a shutdown was the only leverage the White House had to force Democrats to go on record opposing what the American people want and voted for. Yet, it seems like they gave it away without a fight. Getting creative with the accounting and pledging to look into freeing up money elsewhere to accomplish your goal later is not the same as $5 billion earmarked for the express purpose of building a wall.
We’re 2 years into the Trump administration and the economy is rolling, but not one brick has been laid on the President’s signature campaign promise. Now we’re watching the clock tick down to Democrats retaking control of the House, which means there is zero chance for any money in the near future. It’s now or never. If the White House doesn’t make this not only a priority but THE priority, it simply will not happen. And if Ann is right, Donald Trump won’t get a second bite at this apple.
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a goin' on in the White House?
For being a skinny little has been - Coulter sure enjoys being the biggest turd in the punch bowl.
All those Romney RINO’s and liberals she’s banging - they have corrupted her.
we donated.
Hope you will too.
You want the wall?
Put in the wall bill that protects Mueller from Trump firing him.......
If it doesn’t pass, Mueller is instantly fired. Trump can make that promise
Watch the Dems freak out
Make THEM chose for once
The GoFundMe site raising money for the wall is now over $5,000,000! It was under $2,000,000 this morning! I donated $300 and hope you will make a strong statement by donating as well. We need to do SOMETHING to help our country instead of just relying on one man to do it. We can make the simple act of donating to the wall as a loud statement to the government to back our President!
More Republican lawmakers will have to get some stones and stop worrying about what the D.C. media elite think about them. If not, then it’s not going to happen. Heck, it seems like even Trump is caving. If that happens, there’s no hope and he’s a one term President.
From what I can see, NO!
Trump must seek funds else where.
He said Mexico would pay.
He must force Mexico to pay by raising the price of nonpayment so high the demand can not be refused.
We elected Mr. Trump as president to get illegal immigration under control and to get the US economy out of the “new normal” slump. He got the economy growing but has not had success on the illegals and the wall.
I think he has tried on the wall but has been stopped by the pro-cheap labor Republican chamber of commerce weasels and the Democrat no borders, no MAGA socialist politicians. It is an unholy alliance that has run America into the ground under Obama and still is so powerful that Pres. Trump can’t get his agenda through Congress.
We average citizens tried to voice our dismay over this road to ruin in 2016 but the deep state still rules. If they ignore our votes, we may need to resort to other measures to save America.
The GOP gave the democrats everything they wanted and got nothing...
Trump is working with a bunch of fools..
The democrats know that if there is no wall built..TRUMP will lose in 2020 it is that simple...
And the GOP could careless..
I’m disappointed in Hunter leaning on Coulter so heavily to make his point.
No thanks - if I have to choose between throwing my money down a rathole or buying ammo, I’ll choose the ammo.
Yep. Did you read that screeching yesterday from Coulter?
You know who she relied on to make her (idiot) points?
The Drudge Report.
Did I just hear Rush say that PDJT will NOT sign unless border security?
I’m trapped in cubicle hell today - have to catch Rush later
This is from Ann’s screeching yesterday,
“On the basis of his self-interest alone, he must know that if he doesn’t build the wall, he has zero chance of being re-elected and a 100 percent chance of being utterly humiliated. “
Ann is right.
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