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(14,732 posts)CrispyQ
(36,567 posts)"We're gonna build the wall now, America will pay for it, but I will get Mexico to pay for it eventually. Trust me."
And his followers will.
napi21
(45,806 posts)boston bean
(36,225 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Easier for his servile lackeys to say "see he was prophetic, it happened just as he said it would!"
Cattledog
(5,923 posts)Get the money up front.
spanone
(135,950 posts)wishstar
(5,273 posts)He never retracts anything and will continue making delusional promises to keep his faithful followers
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)to refuse to pay for his substandard wall once it's all done.
mercuryblues
(14,562 posts)has said he is willing to implement a 20% border tax with Mexico. To which Mexico pretty much said, I dare you.
malaise
(269,328 posts)fuck to himself
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)for not jumping when he speaks.
He's looking for ways to punish another country for not obeying him. For not bending to his will. His ego can't abide that.
Most likely case is he'll announce some policy that only seems to punish Mexico but actually punishes Americans.
But he'll claim whatever trumped-up policy means Mexico is reimbursing Americans for the wall. But the policy will hurt trade for Americans, while Mexico looks to other - eager - avenues for trade.
Oh, and don't think for a second that the deportations under him don't have something to do with Mexico standing up to him.
Trump is a mean-spirited, spiteful little fuck.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Translation: My campaign promise to build The Wall was total bullshit as every single Democratic and Republican candidate who ran against me pointed out. Since there really is no way to make Mexico pay for the wall with cash like I promised, I will now shift the goalposts and promise that they will pay "in some form" at some later date, to be determined by me.
He is totally crashing and burning on this campaign promise and he knows it. What a loser.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)that sounds like Spicer. Or conway.
Vinca
(50,334 posts)Everyone with an IQ above 50 knows Mexico isn't going to pay for a wall or anything else Trump might want.
Wounded Bear
(58,792 posts)Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)is how anyone can think it is normal for a president of one country to say that another country will be paying for something that country does not want. This is an act of aggression against Mexico. I don't get to put up a fence on the border of my property and then send the bill to my neighbor.
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)I guess this is another of your "trust me" , they'll pay later.
LeftInTX
(25,812 posts)Which means they won't be paying.
Yonnie3
(17,516 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Mexico is NOT paying for it. Why can't you get that through your thick, orange, bloated cranium?