Trump claims he ‘never meant’ Mexico would directly pay for border wall despite repeatedly saying it

Zahn · 2020-01-12T02:10:07+00:00

Imagining Nema's confused naive expression when he realizes that politicians engage in politicking.

zyxzevn · 2020-01-11T23:16:36+00:00

This isn't news, and (democrat) Tim Pool explained it: "he meant to let them pay economically".
But the press mixes up literal and figurative speech.

It is bullshit news like this that we never get to discuss real issues.

JasonCarswell · 2020-01-12T14:00:05+00:00

I don't know why everyone is so upset.

He'll just quietly build the wall during his last days in office - just like how Obama shut down GitMo.

Nemacolin · 2020-01-11T22:37:45+00:00

Right into the Orwellian memory hole.

Donald Trump has claimed that, despite his repeated promises that Mexico would pay for a wall on US southern border, he “obviously never meant Mexico would write a cheque”.

Mr Trump’s website for his 2016 campaign had previously stated that the border country would make a “one-time payment of “$5-$10 billion”.

Instead, the president most recently claimed that Mexico would pay for the wall through changes to trade policy his administration has negotiated to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. That new deal, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), has not been approved by congress yet but the president said on Thursday that it ”probably will be”.

The USMCA will mean Mexico will be “paying for wall indirectly, many, many times over”, Mr Trump said on Thursday. He then boarded Air Force One to fly to McAllen, Texas, where he hopes to drum up support for congressional approval for US taxpayer funding to build the wall.

The 2016 promise that Mexico would directly pay for the wall was also included in a “pay for the wall” memo Mr Trump’s team issued early that year that proposed pressuring Mexico by cutting off remittances sent from undocumented Mexicans in the United States. It proposed amending the Patriot Act, passed after the 9/11 attacks.

“It’s an easy decision for Mexico: make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion [in remittances] continues to flow into their country year after year,” the memo said. “We have the leverage, so Mexico will back down,” it said.

jamesK_3rd · 2020-01-12T02:09:14+00:00

I don't think he meant to limit immigration in any sense of the word.

Which is one of the main reasons that he hasn't done anything about a wall or immigration since he's been in office.

But this is what The people who voted for him wanted, and that's what they're getting. Bigger government, nothing done about immigration, more omnibus spending bills after "I'll never sign another one of those...".

I'm actually shocked he hasn't given Amnesty to DACA people. But I'm going to assume when they vote him in a second time, that'll be his signature defining cause for his last term.

Riva · 2020-01-12T02:23:15+00:00

That is a nasty case of tds

sproketboy · 2020-01-12T03:31:21+00:00

Make. Them. Pay.

tyrdhead · 2020-01-12T13:15:05+00:00

He is a used car salesman. Vote him out. Unless you love the Yugo you have been sold.?

bald-janitor · 2020-01-13T08:55:52+00:00

Kike confirmed

dark_devil_dd · 2020-01-12T11:40:41+00:00

From the beginning it seemed to me it was obvious Mexico wouldn't pay and that Trump was planning on using it as a justification to implement trade tariffs, thus getting as excuse to back away or renegotiate NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) something he always had expressed a dislike for as being "unfair deal" to muricans.

It all seemed obvious, the fact that some people miss the obvious and grasp at anything that confirms "orange man bad" is quite telling.

mikipika · 2020-01-12T18:53:01+00:00

It is obvious that zealots for Donnie will not stand for this. Just look at them scrambling to DEFLECT. Buh... but Obama did.. Hillary did... Bill got a blowjob. So tired of hearing the bitching, moaning, whining of it. Obama, Hillary, and Bill ARE GONE. Let it go. Just like Donnie will be gone. And will we still be stuck here, throwing shit at each other? The one thing that scares the people who have wronged us ALL is if we stop bickering and unite. Can you imagine?

FormosaOolong · 2020-01-11T22:43:18+00:00

Have any pants ever been more on fire? Charcoal testes.

FormosaOolong · 2020-01-12T15:54:31+00:00

Chronic liars lie first to themselves, to protect their ego construct. (Which is fragile, despite the appearance of massive arrogance and pomp.) So any time a shred of truth disrupts their storyline, they first re-weave the foundational fabric of their lie to themselves, within the context of their own weird internal lie. When it sounds good, and credible, and supportive of their bloated sense of self, they start repeating that lie to others, to substantiate it. It's like PR for their ego, and the more people that believe it, the more they believe it. In this way they start to forget things, like, say, oh yeah they're the effing president of the US and most everything they say and do is on public record.

But the years of getting away with re-writing their personal history makes them delusional in the way I think Nema might be trying to point to here--in that they have some unconscious magical thinking wherein if they repeat the lie enough, everyone will believe it, and it will become the new truth, and they will maintain their glory.

Trump is just a very unsophisticated example of this specific narcissistic trait. Most of the people in high places are getting away with this exact process on a much more successful and less transparent level. It's my hope that we're in a phase of our collective evolution where they are all being exposed, and the whole rotten fabric will disintegrate before our very eyes, and we can make a nice new cloth that is not itchy, moth-eaten, and malodorous.

beermeem · 2020-01-13T06:17:15+00:00

The Wall is being built.

You can’t stop us now.

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