Alternatively, if we really want to go through this exercise, then we're better off just going through Congress and imposing a tax on remittances. I don't have a problem with that.
“No. My idea is simply to pay for the damn thing ourselves without this stupid claim that Mexico is going to pay for it. Any Mexican President who agreed to pay for this would be run out of office.”
Perhaps, but “getting them to pay for it” has many avenues! Any way you slice it, whether it be taxing remittances, tariffs of Mexican goods, cutting off our foreign aid; all of it amounts to “making them pay for it!” Mexico is not our friend, they are simply a “Hispanic Leech” that’s been attached to us for far too long. Thanks to the Catholic Church, and abject stupidity, the Mexicans procreate with abandon, and think that America must pay for their perfidy. So I don’t care what mechanism Trump uses, the wall will be built and it must not be built with money from the American taxpayers.