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Shoot Them in the Legs, Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War
WASHINGTON The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House advisers listened astonished, he ordered them to shut down the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico by noon the next day.
The advisers feared the presidents edict would trap American tourists in Mexico, strand children at schools on both sides of the border and create an economic meltdown in two countries. Yet they also knew how much the presidents zeal to stop immigration had sent him lurching for solutions, one more extreme than the next.
Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. Thats not allowed either, they told him.
The president was frustrated and I think he took that moment to hit the reset button, said Thomas D. Homan, who had served as Mr. Trumps acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, recalling that week in March. The president wanted it to be fixed quickly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Skittles
(153,138 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)dalton99a
(81,432 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)...I dont think think Trump is mature man mentally!
Since he was born he has NEVER had to work for anything & has always had armies of people around doing everything for him! And regardless of how bad he acted as a child, or how many BILLION$ he has lost & lives he has ruined Trump has never been forced to GROW THE FUCK UP & face the consequences of his actions like REAL MEN do!!!
...Trump acts so incredibly immature, says the most ridiculously immature comments & LIES literally on the level of a 3-4yr old child!! Trump, like 3-4yr olds, will tell a lie about X & then later tell another completely different lie about the same exact X! When Trump is confronted with both his lies about X Trump will scream FAKE NEWS!!
...At least when 3yr-4yr old children lie it can be funny & cute!
leftieNanner
(15,079 posts)He has a reset button???
Who knew?
madaboutharry
(40,203 posts)Venom flows through his veins.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)tanyev
(42,541 posts)At least they would also provide elaborate drawings of how everything should work.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)That is a sad, sad commentary on a 72+ year old man to have lived such a pathetic life that as he reaches the back end and should be reflecting on achievements and lamenting lost chances to have made more positive impacts on humanity, he is instead pondering sophomoric, idiotic "plans" for something out of the Roadrunner or Bugs Bunny cartoons.
What next? Drawing a fake tunnel on the face of the wall so they drive into it and kill themselves?
I am embarrassed of and for him every second he keeping on breathing, and every second I hope is the last for that situation...
tblue37
(65,273 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)A snake-filled moat? No sharks with frickin' laser beams? Wuss. Wait'll the Proud Boys hear about this.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)He is as bad as a supervillain in a comic book!
Once again, I am thinking thoughts I cannot utter.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)catbyte
(34,364 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)A revolting combination of evil and galactically stupid.
(Alligators? In the desert? Dumfuk doesn't even know basic biology.)
Botany
(70,483 posts)... the highly endangered American Jaguar and the Mexican Grey Wolf too.
He is too twisted to try to talk with.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)Botany
(70,483 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 1, 2019, 07:51 PM - Edit history (1)
N/t
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Do the WH staff and cabinet just think they can keep things going by coddling and massaging and then ignoring the worst of it? The govt is corroding and people are suffering while they seem just to be trying to grab what they can before it all goes up in smoke.
Hes everything we fear and more, but what are they? Are they ALL just grifting or in denial or afraid?
spanone
(135,815 posts)Demovictory9
(32,445 posts)ecstatic
(32,679 posts)I will NEVER forgive rethugs for subjecting our country and the world to this madness. NEVER!
Buns_of_Fire
(17,173 posts)lapfog_1
(29,198 posts)Good luck digging a moat in the mountains... and a most with water implies more or less level ground... not a lot of level ground at the border. And then there is the question of water in the desert.
Liberty Belle
(9,533 posts)He probably ordered Khashoggi chopped into little pieces, too.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,578 posts)Is there some point at which people recognize Trump is psychotic and needs to be removed via the 25th Amendment? Or is his willingness to appoint right wing judges blinding them to any humanity they had left?