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Mexico Shuts Down Trump’s Fantasy About Them Paying for Border Wall

How quickly could you build the wall?

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Indeed, I have written several columns praising Trump for unapologetically taking on establishment Republicans, political correctness and liberal Democrats. I don’t believe that you can construct a firewall inside that thoroughly corrupt organization, and I am not sure how I could have answered the question otherwise without betraying my principles. As Trump might say, everybody loves it.

HANNITY: So through a tariff?

In addition to referring to Mexican immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists”, Trump has continued to hammer home the message that Mexico is “killing us at the border”. Of course. We’re going to do something. “It’s feasible if you know how to manage”. So they give him what he wants, the bad behavior is rewarded and the clown act gains momentum. That’s not like 98 percent. And if they don’t pay, we’ll charge them a little tariff. It’ll be paid.

“My talk at Trump’s place was long ago and my memory about the event is hazy, but I thought he was there”, Will said in an email on Thursday. The cost of a border wall is much higher than the total annual value of Mexican exports, let alone the highest possible revenues that could be raised off of an import tax. We’re not paying for it! On the show, I indicated that I disagreed with Trump’s position on Planned Parenthood – and I still do.

“Of course it’s false”, Eduardo Sanchez, Pena Nieto spokesman, said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg.

The whole interview with Hannity is like this. Many agreed with my comments, but some Trump supporters were furious, thinking I’d thrown him under the bus as part of an anti-Trump conspiracy, which is unfortunate. He constantly veers off into side topics: how far ahead he is in the polls; how everyone says he won the debate; how good a student he was at Wharton; how he’d send Carl Icahn to China; etc. Obamacare premiums are up more than 40 percent this year.

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Trump fights back, and when challenged, instead of cowering, he bites back harder, and that is a refreshing change from feckless politicians. On a lot of subjects-his replacement for Obamacare, for example-it’s obvious he’s just making up his policy on the spot. And then…an ADHD segue into Obama playing golf, and Hannity finally gives up and switches topics.

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