AGRICULTURE/BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Facing people who have felt the full force of the partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump told a farmers convention Monday [1-14-19] that he is insisting on a border wall because of a ‘humanitarian crisis’ at the border…Telling the farmers ‘we’re going to have a wall, we’re going to have a barrier,’ […]
Category: Wall
1/17/2019
GARY COHN/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive and ex-top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, denounced the partial government shutdown as ‘completely wrong’ in an interview published by the Boston Globe on Thursday [1-17-19]. The shutdown, which entered its 27th day Thursday and is the longest in history, shows no […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, which sprawls across four states and nine House districts, a single seat is held by a Republican: Representative Will Hurd of Texas. And Mr. Hurd, a former undercover C.I.A. officer who barely won re-election in Texas’ 23rd District, the largest of the nine, […]
1/17/2019
CHINA/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump vowed on Thursday [1-17-19] to reinvigorate and reinvent American missile defenses in a speech that recalled Cold War-era visions of nuclear adversaries — though he never once mentioned Russia or China, the two great-power threats to the United States. While the president infused the new missile efforts with his ambitions […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In their ongoing push for $5.7 billion to expand the border wall, Trump administration officials have repeatedly pointed to the flow of drugs across the southern border as proof that such a wall is needed. President Donald Trump has used that line. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has, too. But an […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday [1-16-19] that he could turn the ongoing government shutdown into a political issue in next year’s presidential election, labeling ‘Radical Democrats’ as a ‘party of open borders and crime.’ Trump’s White House is in the midst of stalled efforts to reopen portions of the federal government that […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “There are now 77 major or significant Walls built around the world, with 45 countries planning or building Walls. Over 800 miles of Walls have been built in Europe since only 2015. They have all been recognized as close to 100% successful. Stop the crime at our Southern Border!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/15/2019
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “A big new Caravan is heading up to our Southern Border from Honduras. Tell Nancy and Chuck that a drone flying around will not stop them. Only a Wall will work. Only a Wall, or Steel Barrier, will keep our Country safe! Stop playing political games and end the Shutdown!” […]
1/14/2019
AGRICULTURE/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s visit to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention comes at an awkward time as farmers and ranchers begin to feel the pinch of the partial government shutdown. The president delivered remarks Monday afternoon before an overwhelmingly friendly audience of members of the country’s largest farm group. But with […]
1/14/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “RT @DonaldJTrumpJr: ‘Angel mom’ demands Trump’s wall, ‘we’ve become collateral damage’ https://t.co/FoUPO11tmM“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 14, 2019 3:38 pm […]
1/13/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The building of the Wall on the Southern Border will bring down the crime rate throughout the entire Country!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 13, 2019 10:00 am […]
1/13/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The building of the Wall on the Southern Border will bring down the crime rate throughout the entire Country!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 13, 2019 9:58 am […]
1/12/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Washington used to know how to have a serious debate about border security. Republicans demanded more money for Border Patrol agents and necessary fences. Democrats argued for better surveillance technology and more resources at the ports of entry. The two parties squabbled over how much to spend, how to pay for it […]
1/11/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “.@CNN called a San Diego news station (@KUSINews) for negative reports on the Wall. When the station said that Walls work, CNN no longer had interest. #FakeNews https://t.co/IDyXqmDsPq“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 11, 2019 6:29 pm […]
1/11/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Lately, both President Trump and his political opponents have wreaked collateral damage on an undeserving soft target in their discussions of a border wall: the Middle Ages. Donald Trump’s obsession with the wall makes sense for his infomercial of a presidency. Like the Snuggie or the Hawaii Chair, the wall would be […]
1/11/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Friday [1-11-19] played down the prospects of an imminent emergency declaration to free up funding for his proposed border wall, saying in a reversal that he wasn’t ‘going to do it so fast.’ Locked in an impasse with Democrats over the wall, Trump has said repeatedly in recent […]
1/11/2019
CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Despite previously unfruitful negotiations during the last round of shutdown talks, President Donald Trump says he’s ripe to reopen the government — urging party leaders to return to Washington and vote for a wall, or barrier, or whatever they wish to call it — even ‘peaches’…Trump’s comments came shortly after Congress adjourned […]
1/11/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said Friday [1-11-19] he is still open to declaring a national emergency over immigration at the southern border, but made clear he would ‘rather not,’ calling it an ‘easy way out’…One of the reasons Trump is reluctant to declare a national emergency: He believes his administration will be sued […]
1/11/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Fake News Media keeps saying we haven’t built any NEW WALL. Below is a section just completed on the Border. Anti-climbing feature included. Very high, strong and beautiful! Also, many miles already renovated and in service! https://t.co/UAAGXl5Byr” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 11, 2019 12:50 pm […]
1/11/2019
CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “…The Steel Barrier, or Wall, should have been built by previous administrations long ago. They never got it done – I will. Without it, our Country cannot be safe. Criminals, Gangs, Human Traffickers, Drugs & so much other big trouble can easily pour in. It can be stopped cold!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/11/2019
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The partial government shutdown is now the longest in American history. The shutdown entered its 22nd day on Saturday [1-12-19], surpassing the previous 21-day record set in late 1995 and early 1996 during the Clinton administration. Nine federal departments and several smaller agencies – one-fourth of the federal government – remain closed […]
1/11/2019
MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “I often said during rallies, with little variation, that ‘Mexico will pay for the Wall.’ We have just signed a great new Trade Deal with Mexico. It is Billions of Dollars a year better than the very bad NAFTA deal which it replaces. The difference pays for Wall many times over!” […]
1/11/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The government shutdown and partisan wrangling over a wall at the southern border have produced high political drama in Washington, where President Trump has sought to portray the impasse as a national emergency. And as the shutdown reached a record 22nd day on Saturday, Americans following local and national media coverage would […]
1/11/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has stepped back from declaring a national emergency to pay for a border wall, under pressure from congressional Republicans, his own lawyers and advisers, who say using it as a way out of the government shutdown does not justify the precedent it would set and the legal questions it could […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We lose 300 Americans a week, 90% of which comes through the Southern Border. These numbers will be DRASTICALLY REDUCED if we have a Wall!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 10, 2019 9:42 pm […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Something has changed. President Donald Trump’s headline-hungry governing style has never lacked for drama, but there’s a new sense of aimlessness lately in Trump’s frenetic search for a crisis, his efforts to control the headlines, distract from other events, and keep his base satisfied that he is the muscular fighter who will […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump claimed during his visit to the U.S. southern border on Thursday [1-10-19] that wheels predated the creation of the wall — launching almost immediate reaction on social media. But was he correct? The president, during his comments in a roundtable event with lawmakers and Border Patrol officials, made the argument […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham issued a statement Thursday [1-10-19] calling for President Donald Trump to invoke national emergency powers to fund his border wall…The statement from the key Trump ally came shortly after Graham said efforts to forge a deal with congressional Democrats had fallen flat. GOP senators gathered […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “House Democrats are weighing a lawsuit if President Donald Trump pulls the trigger on a national emergency declaration to build his border wall, with party leaders eager to stop the president from doing an end run around Congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to lay out exactly how House Democrats would […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “People and businesses across this border city reflected the national debate raging over President Donald Trump’s border wall during his visit Thursday [1-10-19]. Protesters favoring the wall and those opposed to new barriers took to the streets as residents insisted there was no crisis. Across the street from U.S. Customs and Border […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [1-10-19] canceled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, citing the ‘safety of our nation’ as he continues to push for border wall funding that has ignited a partial government shutdown…The president remains at odds with Congressional Democrats over appropriations for his long-promised wall […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/CHINA/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As the partial government shutdown enters Day 20 with no compromise in sight, President Donald Trump said on Thursday [1-10-19] that dealing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is more frustrating that negotiating with China — a country Trump has described as America’s economic adversary…Trump made the […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [1-10-19] disputed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s account of their contentious meeting a day earlier, insisting that he had not slammed his fists on the table after hearing Democrats would not support funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Referring to Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Nearly every lawmaker who represents a district or state along the U.S.-Mexico border — including two Republicans — either opposes outright or more quietly declines to support President Donald Trump’s $5.7 billion request for a border wall, according to a survey conducted by POLITICO. That poses an awkward reality for the president […]
1/10/2019
GOP/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Years before President Trump forced a government shutdown over a border wall, triggering a momentous test of wills in Washington, Representative Steve King of Iowa took to the House floor to show off a model of a 12-foot border wall he had designed. And long before Mr. Trump demonized immigrants — accusing Mexico […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/DHS/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump arrived in this border town Thursday [1-10-19] on a trip that he did not want to take to discuss a crisis that Democrats say does not exist, repeating his request for a long-promised border wall that has led to a bitter political impasse and a 20-day government shutdown. Flanked by […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “When a president comes to town there are two realities, the one the White House hopes to create and the one that actually exists. President Trump arrived in this city on the Mexican border on Thursday [1-10-19] to dramatize his desire for a border wall, a hardened position that has caused the […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “‘Great support for Border Security and the Wall.’ @foxandfriends Even greater than anyone would know! ‘Presidents supporters do not want him to cave.’ @SteveDoocy I won’t!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 10, 2019 8:41 am […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said he is nearing a decision to declare a national emergency on the southern border, which he visited in person Thursday [1-10-19] despite earlier reservations about taking the trip. The President warned as he departed the White House he would take the step — which would be subject to […]
1/9/2019
DRUGS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “RT @charliekirk11: This is why we need a wall Illegal immigration is a serious threat to our country 90% of all heroin comes across the b…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 9, 2019 10:55 pm […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “US taxpayers will foot the bill for a border wall, White House strategic communications director Mercedes Schlapp acknowledged in an interview on Wednesday [1-9-19]…The White House has previously acknowledged that the construction of a border wall will need to be funded by government dollars, but have insisted — as Schlapp did […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DONALD JR/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Donald Trump Jr. likened his father’s proposed border wall with Mexico to a zoo fence Tuesday [1-8-19] evening, sparking a sharp backlash on social media from users who thought he was comparing immigrants to zoo animals. ‘You know why you can enjoy a day at the zoo?’ the son of President […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump has run into a wall. It’s the new Democratic House. In the first Oval Office address of his presidency, Trump argued Tuesday [1-8-19] night that a dire security and humanitarian crisis at the Mexican border has made it imperative for Congress to approve his immigration proposal, including […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump stormed out of a shutdown meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday [1-9-19], threatening to declare a national emergency at the border after Democrats refused him money for a border wall. Trump later called the meeting ‘a total waste of time.’ Meanwhile, the partial shutdown droned on for 800,000 federal workers, […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/LEGAL/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is set to visit the southern border in Texas on Thursday [1-10-19] to make his case for building a border wall. And in the latest sign that he is considering extreme legal measures to secure funding for the project, he’ll be accompanied by an unusual guest: the White House’s […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/LEGAL/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump’s quest to build a wall on the southern border has escalated to considering declaring a national emergency. It’s being reported the administration is looking to declare the emergency, then move around money already appropriated to the Pentagon by cancelling some other construction projects so that construction at the border […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday [1-9-19] that he has the ‘absolute right’ to declare a national emergency to force the construction of a border wall, but said he would still prefer to reach a wall-funding deal with lawmakers. Speaking with reporters at the White House during a signing for anti-human trafficking […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Even in its heyday, ‘The Apprentice’ never earned ratings like this. President Trump’s appearance in network prime time on Tuesday [1-7-19] — a nine-minute speech from the Oval Office on border security that mostly recycled his usual talking points — drew roughly 40 million television viewers, according to statistics released on Wednesday […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Donald Trump isn’t sure The Wall exists. At various times, he has said that much of it has ‘already been built’—not true. He’s said that Mexico is already paying for it, through a trade deal that has yet to be ratified—also not true, and flat-out impossible, at that. Nevertheless, the president has […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Though betting odds had a 20 percent chance that Donald Trump would use his brief prime-time Oval Office address to declare a national emergency at the Mexican-U.S. border, he did not. Instead, he dedicated his time to a hodge-podge of lurid descriptions of violence juxtaposed to a plea for humanitarian aid. In […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “For President Trump, a prime-time presidential address to the nation was a radical experiment in conventionality. The first results back from the lab were not an indication that he should stop winging it and become more disciplined in the mold of predecessors. Here was one of the most traditionally powerful platforms available […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “U.S. President Donald Trump said he left a meeting on border wall funding with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday [1-9-19] because it was a ‘total waste of time,’ while Democrats said he walked out in a ‘temper tantrum.’ Trump met at the White House with congressional leaders including two top Democrats – […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump warned on Wednesday [1-9-19] that he reserved the option of declaring a national emergency to build his border wall without congressional approval. The president, speaking a day after his address to the nation that even some supporters conceded was unlikely to increase public support, headed to a luncheon meeting on […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump stormed out of a White House meeting with congressional leaders on Wednesday [1-9-19] after Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not fund a border wall even if he agreed to reopen the government, escalating a confrontation that has shuttered large portions of the government for 19 days and counting. Stunned […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “At the beginning of the government shutdown, Bill Shine was about as far away from the capital as President Trump’s most senior communications official could get. While the president was complaining about sitting alone in the White House trying to force Democrats to accept a wall on the Mexican border, Mr. […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Donald Trump’s hatred of looking foolish and Democrats’ conviction that they have a winning hand is leaving the President with no way out of the stalemate over his border wall. That means hundreds of thousands of federal workers, in limbo in a government shutdown that is within days of becoming the longest […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump walked out of discussions to end a partial government shutdown, now in its third week, calling the talks with congressional Democrats “a total waste of time’…Trump was in a chummy mood when he entered the Situation Room, according to a source familiar with how things unfolded. The President […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-8-19-] night made a public plea for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, claiming that law enforcement officials are the ones demanding it, while blaming Democrats for the prolonged government shutdown that has resulted from an impasse over how to pay for the barrier. The president, however, […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As the government shutdown passed its 18th day Tuesday [1-8-19], President Donald Trump told Americans that a border wall is needed to keep the country safe – but avoided talk of declaring a national emergency that would allow him to start building it without congressional authorization. In his first formal address from […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Congressional Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi strongly rebuffed President Donald Trump’s nationally televised call Tuesday [1-8-19] night for billions in funding for an ‘ineffective, unnecessary’ border wall. Shortly after Trump argued for the wall, both Democrats not only denounced the wall but also blasted what they called the president’s sharp […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump tweeted from Camp David on Sunday [1-6-19] his latest vision for the border wall he has promised for more than two years: ‘We are now planning a steel barrier rather than concrete,’ Trump wrote. That might have come as a surprise to anyone who still assumes that Washington’s most […]
1/8/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised that Mexico would pay for the border wall, a pledge he made starting on the campaign trail. Now he’s demanding that Congress come up with more than $5 billion to build a wall. He’ll make a prime-time address Tuesday night, making his case to the […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is keeping everyone in suspense as he considers whether to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall. Republican support for an emergency declaration is growing in some corners of the party, as GOP leaders and White House officials view it as a way out of a shutdown […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump and his allies have launched a full-court press to convince Americans, and skeptical lawmakers, that there is a crisis on the Southern border, and the only way to fix it is to approve billions of dollars for Trump’s signature border wall. But senior Trump administration officials, including Vice […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump faces a tall task in his Oval Office address on Tuesday [1-8-19] night: convincing voters outside of his political base that there is an urgent crisis at the nation’s southern border, that a wall along the border is necessary to solve it, and it’s worth a government shutdown that […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump will lay out his case for the border wall in a prime time address Tuesday [1-8-19] from the Oval Office, but he has been making similar arguments in less high-profile settings for weeks amid the partial government shutdown. Recurring themes have emerged that are certain to come up again […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump wants to address the nation from the Oval Office on Tuesday [1-8-19] night to talk about immigration — specifically his desire to build a wall — and, presumably, the shutdown of the federal government. Broadcast networks are giving the president a slot in prime time to make his case. […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “With the bullhorn of a nationally televised address and the prestige of the White House around him, President Trump delivered a dark, if familiar, message to the American people on Tuesday [1-8-19] night: The United States needs a border wall to stanch the flow of drugs and criminals, and it has no […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/CLINTONS/JIMMY CARTER/MEXICO/MIKE PENCE/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Latest on President Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessors endorsed his idea of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): 9:05 a.m. Vice President Mike Pence says President Donald Trump’s recent claim that his predecessors endorsed his idea of a U.S.-Mexico border wall was an ‘impression.’ Trump […]
1/8/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has invited representatives from cable and broadcast news channels to an off-the-record lunch at the White House ahead of his prime time speech Tuesday [1-8-19] night, an address in which he is expected to frame his demand for border wall funding as a response to a national security and humanitarian […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democratic congressional leaders called on President Trump on Tuesday [1-8-19] to reopen the federal government while they resolve differences with him over securing the southern border, in a formal response to his prime-time address from the Oval Office that they dismissed as riddled with misinformation and fear-mongering. ‘The president has chosen fear; […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Moments after President Trump concluded his Oval Office remarks on border security on Tuesday [1-8-19], the NBC anchor Chuck Todd came on air with a blunt assessment. ‘He made a lot of dubious claims,’ Mr. Todd informed millions of viewers after the network’s scheduled program — a new episode of an Ellen […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump doubled down on one of the biggest gambles of his presidency on Tuesday [1-8-19] night with a televised appeal to pressure Congress into paying for his long-promised border wall, even at the cost of leaving the government partly closed until lawmakers give in. Embarking on a strategy that he himself […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump’s greatest hurdle in persuading Americans that there is a national security crisis on the southwest border may well be his own credibility. Mr. Trump is using a rare currency — a prime-time address to the nation — to make the case for a border wall with Mexico, an issue […]
1/8/2019
CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The government shutdown is threatening important pieces of President Donald Trump’s agenda, escalating the political stakes as he and Congress vie to see who blinks first. At EPA and the Interior Department, furloughs have frozen efforts to roll back Obama-era regulations and open new water to oil and gas drilling. The White […]
1/7/2019
BORDER/JIMMY CARTER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As he makes his case for building a border wall, President Trump says that his predecessors have secretly confided in him that they should have done it themselves. The only problem: All of the living presidents say that’s not true. Former President Jimmy Carter said on Monday [1-7-19] that he never […]
1/7/2019
BORDER/DEMS/MEDIA/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is taking over the nation’s airwaves Tuesday [1-8-19] night to argue his case for a U.S.-Mexico border wall — and Democrats are not happy about it. Representatives for ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox Broadcasting, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC and NBC confirmed plans to air Trump’s address live […]
1/7/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump unleashed an offensive on Monday [1-7-19] to persuade Americans that a ‘humanitarian and security crisis’ on the southern border must be addressed before a government shutdown can end, announcing a prime-time address for Tuesday and a trip to the border later in the week. Vice President Mike Pence briefed reporters […]
1/7/2019
BORDER/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Several dozen House Republicans might cross the aisle this week to vote for Democratic bills to reopen shuttered parts of the federal government, spurring the White House into a dramatic effort to stem potential GOP defections. White House officials and Republican congressional leaders worry that GOP support for the shutdown is eroding, […]
1/7/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Major broadcast and cable news networks have agreed to air President Donald Trump’s Tuesday [1-8-19] night Oval Office address on what he has dubbed a ‘crisis’ on the southern border. Trump’s announcement Monday [1-7-19] that he will deliver remarks in prime time prompted debate over whether the networks should provide the president […]
1/7/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “If President Donald Trump invokes a ‘national emergency’ at the US border and uses emergency powers to bypass Congress and obtain funding to build his long-promised border wall, a battle in the courts over the questionable legality of spending those dollars would be virtually guaranteed. But the United States is no stranger […]
1/7/2019
JIMMY CARTER/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Former President Jimmy Carter denied ever supporting President Donald Trump’s border wall, contradicting the current commander in chief’s claim that previous presidents confided they regret not building a physical barrier on the southern border…Carter’s statement joins other denials from all other living presidents, with the exception of Barack Obama, whose spokesperson […]
1/7/2019
DEMS/GOVERNMENT/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As the budget standoff between President Trump and congressional Democrats grinds into the third week of a partial government shutdown, the White House has floated the idea that Mr. Trump might invoke emergency powers to build his proposed wall on the Mexican border without lawmakers’ approval. That route could resolve the immediate […]
1/6/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “….The only reason they do not want to build a Wall is that Walls Work! 99% of our illegal Border crossings will end, crime in our Country will go way down and we will save billions of dollars a year! A properly planned and constructed Wall will pay for itself many times […]
1/6/2019
BORDER/HILLARY CLINTON/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “’We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked…’ Barrack Obama, 2005. I voted, when I was a Senator, to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in…” Hillary Clinton, 2015.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2019 7:01 am […]
1/5/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We are working hard at the Border, but we need a WALL! In 2018, 1.7 million pounds of narcotics seized, 17,000 adults arrested with criminal records, and 6000 gang members, including MS-13, apprehended. A big Human Trafficking problem.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 10:16 am […]
1/5/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Great support coming from all sides for Border Security (including Wall) on our very dangerous Southern Border. Teams negotiating this weekend! Washington Post and NBC reporting of events, including Fake sources, has been very inaccurate (to put it mildly)!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 7:31 am […]
1/2/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Sadly, there can be no REAL Border Security without the Wall!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 2, 2019 11:09 pm […]
1/2/2019
MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal. Much of the Wall has already been fully renovated or built. We have done a lot of work. $5.6 Billion Dollars that House has approved is very little in comparison to the benefits of National Security. Quick payback!” –Donald […]
1/1/2019
BORDER/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “B: ‘Border Security and the Wall ‘thing’ and Shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her tenure as Speaker! Let’s make a deal?’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 1, 2019 2:02 pm […]
1/1/2019
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Democrats, much as I suspected, have allocated no money for a new Wall. So imaginative! The problem is, without a Wall there can be no real Border Security – and our Country must finally have a Strong and Secure Southern Border!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 1, 2019 9:32 am […]
1/31/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Large sections of WALL have already been built with much more either under construction or ready to go. Renovation of existing WALLS is also a very big part of the plan to finally, after many decades, properly Secure Our Border. The Wall is getting done one way or the other!” –Donald Trump, […]
12/31/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “…Remember this. Throughout the ages some things NEVER get better and NEVER change. You have Walls and you have Wheels. It was ALWAYS that way and it will ALWAYS be that way! Please explain to the Democrats that there can NEVER be a replacement for a good old fashioned WALL!” -Donald Trump, […]
12/31/2018
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Democrats will probably submit a Bill, being cute as always, which gives everything away but gives NOTHING to Border Security, namely the Wall. You see, without the Wall there can be no Border Security – the Tech ‘stuff’ is just, by comparison, meaningless bells & whistles…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 31, […]
12/31/2018
MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL through the many billions of dollars a year that the U.S.A. is saving through the new Trade Deal, the USMCA, that will replace the horrendous NAFTA Trade Deal, which has so badly hurt our Country. Mexico & Canada will also thrive – good for all!” […]
12/31/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “It’s incredible how Democrats can all use their ridiculous sound bite and say that a Wall doesn’t work. It does, and properly built, almost 100%! They say it’s old technology – but so is the wheel. They now say it is immoral- but it is far more immoral for people to be […]
12/31/2018
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “I’m in the Oval Office. Democrats, come back from vacation now and give us the votes necessary for Border Security, including the Wall. You voted yes in 2006 and 3013. One more yes, but with me in office, I’ll get it built, and Fast!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 31, 2018 10:33 am […]
12/31/2018
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “I campaigned on Border Security, which you cannot have without a strong and powerful Wall. Our Southern Border has long been an ‘Open Wound,’ where drugs, criminals (including human traffickers) and illegals would pour into our Country. Dems should get back here an fix now!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 31, 2018 8:29 […]
12/31/2018
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “An all concrete Wall was NEVER ABANDONED, as has been reported by the media. Some areas will be all concrete but the experts at Border Patrol prefer a Wall that is see through (thereby making it possible to see what is happening on both sides). Makes sense to me!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
12/30/2018
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 30, 2018 4:59 pm […]