Thanks to the many other scandals and failed measures by President Donald Trump, we haven’t been hearing much about his beloved border wall recently — until today, when the President of the United States reminded us that he is still racist as hell and will work tirelessly to keep America as white as possible.
This morning, Trump reignited his calls for his U.S.-Mexico border wall and even went as far as putting pressure on Democrats to vote for border security, threatening to shut down the government if they did not obey him. Trump screamed on Twitter:
I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!”
I would be willing to “shut down” government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018
It’s easy to see why Trump would love an ultimatum like this — he either gets the Democrats to do what he wants, or he gets to shut the government down and avoid doing any work. More time for golf and Twitter! Trump seems to be oblivious to the fact that a lot of the opposition he is facing is coming from his own party — yet he is only focused on blaming Democrats.
Speaking of blaming Democrats: Somebody bookmark this tweet, because even though Trump has now literally said HE will shut down the government, he will undoubtedly claim that Democrats are shutting it down by not conceding.
This revival of an old subject on Trump’s Twitter account likely means that something major is about to happen. Whenever we’ve seen Trump go back to one of his old inflammatory talking points, he is fishing for any distraction he can create because some very bad news is about to come out about him. Stay tuned, because things have been heating up over Michael Cohen and the Russian investigation.
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