The trumpet man stuck it to his supporters once again. After two years of promise that Mexico would pay for his border WALL, the President now says the military should do so because they are rich following the latest spending bill that gave the military a large spending increase. Mexico won the battle of truth telling when they told Trump Mexico would not pay for his WALL. It comes at a time when Trump's supporters said they support him because he keeps his campaign promises.
The WALL was never a real issue until Trump made it one during the campaign. He did so to obtain votes and tried to use it coupled with immigration reform. But we also know that immigration reform is not a Trump priority because he has no immigration reform plan before congress and cancelled DACA with out a plan to replace it, so their is no Presidential leadership on immigration reform or the WALL, only rhetoric for his base.
If the WALL was really important in Trump's plans he would have campaigned on it with the U.S. building and paying for the WALL like he campaigned on increasing military spending. It was a set up for his base and the anti-immigration movement. In other words, it was a sucker punch for voters. Like other republicans, Trump played their game, then left them hanging.
The same thing took place with Trump and the republicans health care schemes to replace the ACA with their plans which was going to be a better health care plan. The CBO said other wise and both health care schemes failed to pass. American continues to be leaderless even on the issues Trump promotes because of his corrupt attitude. And the trumpet man still can not do the one elementary act that all Presidents do, make his tax returns public for the people to see.
Food for thought: Trump says the WALL is a matter of national security. If that is so why would we leave our national security up to Mexico. Common sense tells this writer America has to take care of its own national security.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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