philperth2010 wrote on Jan 6
th, 2019 at 6:40pm:
Aussie wrote on Jan 6
th, 2019 at 5:55pm:
You had TWO FAR KING YEARS controlling the three levels of Government, and no Wall.
One wonders why when Trump had control of all three levels of Government why he waited until he lost control of Congress to shut down Government and issue an ultimatum....
In reply to another brilliant "Rich" post...
SadKangaroo wrote on Jan 5
th, 2019 at 8:44am:
Take his actions on the Wall/Fence.
He made claims during the campaign about building a wall, that it would not only be effective but resolve the issue 100% and Mexico would pay for it all. The problem is, he just made it up, all of it, without any consultation, planning, costing or negotiations with Mexico.
A typical Trump promise. Tell the people what they want to hear, get what you want from them then abandon your side of the deal.
This is Trump's business and political life in a nutshell.
Now he is being held to account he and his supporters have to "reinterpret" what he meant.
The wall that would span the entire border, manned, monitored, and even electrified, is now a fence. Just a fence. Not even across the entire border.
And funding, well Mexico paying has now been abandoned and "reinterpreted" to mean the USA gets a better deal on NAFTA in the USMCA that Mexico is pretty much paying, yeah?
Even though, that's not even true.
Oh but wait, that's been exposed so now they're going to steal money going back to Mexico, the USMCA agreement and trade, in general, be damned?
And all this time, these nearly 2 years, Trump could have put the bills forward to find the wall assuming he'd get an IOU from Mexico, but he didn't.
He kept it alive for the Midterms to use as a political tool, and now he waits until the Dems have control before putting a vote forward.
These are the actions of someone who made a promise he could never deliver, doubled down on it time and time again just waiting for a chance to blame someone else for why it won't ever become a reality when it is his fault the entire time, firstly for proposing such a stupid, ineffective end expensive policy, then being too proud, stubborn and controlled by his ego to admit his mistake and propose an actual solution to the issue.
But Trump did none of that. Instead his supporters so desperate to hide from that truth spawn multiple conspiracies to allow them to think Trump is still doing the lords works, but it's just hidden and behind the scenes with the lack of evidence only being more proof that the conspiracy is true!
Nah mate, nah. Open both eyes and just accept the truth.
Trump's wall was and is never going to happen. If he doesn't abandon it entirely, it will be used again as an election issue in 2020 but after that, it still won't be built UNLESS he backs down from the claim of Mexico paying for it, which would be yet another embarrassing back down for the liar in chief.