Don’t tell Donald, it might upset him:
Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once called President Donald Trump's views on a border wall and immigration "simplistic" and "absurd and almost childish."
Now, "simplistic" and "absurd and almost childish" have become pretty standard descriptions of Trump himself, by those who have spent time near him.
Mulvaney isn’t yet officially chief of staff, and with Trump reportedly already fuming that Mulvaney called him a “terrible human being,” will he even get there?
Mulvaney emphasized that the best way to protect the border is to enforce current law with more manpower and improved technology -- a policy the Trump White House is also pursuing.
"And by the way, the bottom line is the fence doesn't stop anybody who really wants to get across," Mulvaney said in the 2015 interview. "You go under, you go around, you go through it. And that's what the ranchers tell us, is that they don't need a fence. What they need is more manpower, and more technology, and more willingness to enforce the law as it exists today. There are parts of our border that are secure and parts of our border that are not. A lot of that comes down to whether or not we are just willing to enforce the law as it exists. So it's easy to tell people what they want to hear, 'build the darn fence, vote for me.'"
Trump is shutting down the government to try to force funding for his wall. Because Mexico apparently won’t cover it, despite Trump’s previous promises. And now we know that even Trump’s designated new Chief of Staff has mocked the very idea of the wall.