Trump Suggests New Border Strategy: 'We Will Build a Human Wall if Necessary'

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite



by Ken Meyer | Feb 5th, 2019, 9:40 am

President Donald Trump appears to be suggesting a military solution to border security if he cannot get his much-desired funding for his wall and finds the declaration of a national emergency to be politically unviable as well.

In his first tweet of the day, Trump warned of a “tremendous number” of immigrants waiting to pour across the southern border. He used this to defend the news that the Pentagon recently sent thousands of U.S. troops down south to assist with border security.

Link to tweet

Trump’s tweeting about his border wall makes it increasingly likely that the proposal will be a centerpiece of his State of the Union speech tonight.

The U.S. recently came off of the longest government shutdown in national history due to Trump’s feud with Congress because of their refusal to provide funding for his wall. Trump seemed to back off from the fight when he signed a continuing resolution to temporarily re-open the government, but he has repeatedly threatened to declare a national emergency in order to appropriate wall funding if no agreement can be reached when the CR expires in 10 more days.

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[greymattermom]

1. Great strategy.

Humans have phones and will post videos. Lots of videos.

[ArizonaLib]

25. Like HANDS ACROSS AMERICA?

Red rover, red rover....

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. That didn't work well the last time it was tried, when it was known as "Pickett's Charge." NT

[NurseJackie]

4. Excellent analogy.

[pangaia]

13. Actually, THAT wall held..

[Initech]

3. Futurama destroyed that theory in 3 seconds:

[Hugin]

7. +1

[Freethinker65]

5. Tunnel under a wall! Fly over a wall! Travel by water to a coastal shoreline around a wall?

Enter legally and overstay your visa?

Or better yet, enter illegally with help from MAGA employers (like Trump properties) to work for them at reduced wages!!

[Hugin]

6. Creepy.

Just exactly who's bodies is he planning to use for his vanity wall?

I'll await an answer... I'm envisioning corduroy roads constructed of corpses and other atrocities from the authoritarians in humanity's inhuman past.

[2naSalit]

8. Migrant children whose parents tried to apply for assylum...

There are plenty of bodies from all over the country to pile up after two years of this shit.

[Achilleaze]

9. republicans are truly sick

Sick sick sick

[Midnightwalk]

10. He has been working on this for a long time

There are already several prototypes.

[link:https://www.google.com/search?q=&hl=en-us&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CVMfen9AtM54IkAQ8I6fo7kazTZ5gWzOH-CY6B8Z62I8fTDNjop3kqcTuM3-QsSdP8l1mHGFBf2zV7stjKfrs1CdYapnP1091WeCKhIJEPCOn6O5Gs0RyOZbh-btsRwqEgk2eYFszh_1gmBEd29ArjtwaYCoSCegfGetiPH0wEYROc5Q1BhWcKhIJzY6Kd5KnE7gRvywCgYSONe4qEgnN_1kLEnT_1JdRHX3yUUA8pYyioSCZhxhQX9s1e7EWns36YrlHj9KhIJLYyn67NQnWERZhKO6fHjzdcqEgmqZz9dPdVnghGxZwqN9sh-IA&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSxcy9_aTgAhXnllQKHXIaD78QrnZ6BAgBEBc&biw=375&bih=635&dpr=3|]

[Auggie]

15. +1

[Squinch]

11. With what, Donnie? The bones of children?

[Canoe52]

17. +1

Yes the skulls and bones of our vanquished enemies!

Maybe he was watching an old arnold schwarzenegger movie?

[The Truth Is Here]

12. I'm sure Trump can be the *cough* anchor *cough* to the human wall.

Let's make sure his foot is properly concreted in.

[forgotmylogin]

16. He'd cover a good half mile or so if he'd just lay down on the border.

I bet the military won't appreciate being "bricks" in 45's Wall.

[FreepFryer]

14. One sick cookie (n/t)

[Javaman]

18. it went from steel, to concrete, to slats and now human flesh.

what will be next? teacup dogs?

[tanyev]

19. Soylent Green Cement?

[IcyPeas]

20. Sandcastles would be nice

[matt819]

21. Brilliant!

Just when you thought he couldn't get more insane.

It would be a job creator, though.

2,000 miles x 5,280 feet per mile = 10,560,000 feet

Assume 2' width per person with arm-linking = 5,280,000 people.

Times 3 shifts =15,540,000 people per day.

So, 15,540,000 people at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour

That's $901,320,000 per day. Every day. That's $328,981,800,000 per year.

So, not a real cost saver.

But, of course, like everything else he says, he just pulled this out of his ass.

[riversedge]

22. A human wall for Trump's non event. damn

Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump

Tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of flooding our Southern Border. We have sent additional military. We will build a Human Wall if necessary. If we had a real Wall, this would be a non-event!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

23. Trump just wants a budget crisis along with Constitutional crisis.

Our White House had become nothing but a crisis generating machine......

Keep the rubes distracted while destroying our government one nibble at at time.....

And, PS:
Donald Trump is ignoring the law today. And no one really cares.
First Monday in February is legally the deadline for sending a president’s budget to Congress

From: https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/anyone-care-no-trump-budget-today/
(snip)

A senior OMB official said in a statement last week that the budget would not be sent to Capitol Hill on schedule. “We will not be transmitting the president’s budget next week,” the official said Friday. “OMB is working on a revised schedule and will provide additional information when it’s available.”

That information became available later on Monday, when OMB began sharing notice that it will release portions of the fiscal 2020 budget the week of March 11, with the rest issued the following week.

[WhiteTara]

24. Are these going to be living or dead

humans? Can you imagine standing in the middle of nowhere for the rest of your life with only the sound of the wind above and the river below? What an idiot.

[delisen]

27. I picture a wall of horizontal human bricks. Hope that

is not the long term plan.

[WhiteTara]

29. I see them vertical like a picket fence

If it is a long term plan, then they best use lots of preservatives.

[NickB79]

26. Go for it. Nothing the military loves more than a babysitting mission

I'm sure servicemen will be delighted to be separated from their families to do bored-out-of-your-skull patrols driving around in the fucking desert.

[bmbmd]

28. It's a way forward, a way to save face and yet

surrender to the will of the House. Nancy herself broached the issue of technology and improved surveillance. I'm waiting for him to call it "a wall of American will" or some such.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

30. "If we had a real wall, this would be a non-event."

Yes, and if we had a REAL president, this would be a non-issue.

[Homer Wells]

31. Interesting Idea

If they hired all the unemployed and under employed, paid them a living wage, full-time, with full benefits, it could wipe out unemployment completely.