A hell of a lot of insanity happened yesterday because of Donald Trump, as the president had a major meltdown in front of everyone, unable to handle the fact that Democrats were taking over the House and his impeachment now seems closer than ever.
As part of the chaos that the president caused yesterday, Trump made a ridiculous appearance in the press briefing room yesterday to rant about how much his supporters wanted his racist border wall. During this rant, the president lied about how his supporters have been calling him and sending him tweets and letters about how badly they want it. And as usual, this was a lie — at least the calling part of it. Trump said:
The people of our country want it. I have never had so much support as I have in the last week over my stance for border security, for border control and for frankly the wall or the barrier. I have never had anything like it in terms of calls coming in, in terms of people writing in and tweeting and doing whatever they have to do. I have never had this much support and we’ve done some things as you know that have been very popular.”
However, conservative CNN commentator Bill Kristol pointed out that Trump couldn’t possibly have gotten any calls from his supporters — because thanks to his own government shutdown, the White House switchboard is closed! Therefore, the everyday American has absolutely no way to reach their president.
At this point, Trump will say basically anything to make his wall idea look better. According to a CBS poll, the majority of Americans have stated they do NOT want the border wall — especially if Mexico isn’t going to foot the bill, which was one of Trump’s major promises. Trump knows he’s on thin ice and as usual, he must resort to pathetic lies to save himself.
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