Term Dog wrote on Dec 15
th, 2018 at 4:23pm:
Mexico has just paid for the wall so much so that a physical Wall is no longer really necessary, would still look nice though.
Trump is a genius, two for one deal.
Obunga couldn't get any of it right in 8 years.
Trump made it very clear, a real, physical, beautiful wall, paid for 100% by Mexico.
Mexico have made it clear they won't be paying so Trump and more importantly his supporters like yourself, the true suffers of Trump Derangment Syndrome, are trying to find way to claim Mexico are paying for it.
First of all it was by tariffs, but then someone pointed out to them that Americans are the ones who pay the tariffs. If only someone could explain that to Trump in a way he'd understand but no, he still boasts about raising BILLIONS from tariffs on China...
Next they tried saying that the deal Trump made in USMCA means that because it's such a good deal compared to NAFTA (which is isn't), Mexico have in essense paid for the wall, which they haven't.
Now you're trying to say that a physical wall is no longer needed because you're claiming a diplomatic soltion has been reached?
If it's true that's great but this only validates the counter policy literally everyone else suggested to Trump instead of the Wall, and then there is the other point that Mexico still isn't paying for it and there is no wall.
NOW, Trump and his supporters are in even bigger trouble. He needs to build the wall to pacify his supporters and not appear weak to them, BUT, he also need the Wall not built so he can use it at the next election because the economic projections from the Whitehouse themselves aren't good.
He needs an issue to take to the next election.
So now Trump has a tough decsion to make. Does he risk losing the faith of his supporters now and give him self a powerful issues to campaign on for the next election, or does he fight and attempt to actually build the wall but then have to rely on his economic credentials that could go either way between now and the election campaign?
Knowing the kind of ego driven individual Trump is, I think it's a safe bet to assume that no wall will be built before the next election and he'll use it as the cornerstone of his campaign.
Expect more fake news about Mexican Immigrants, legal or otherwise, in the coming months leading up to the campaign.