So now that Trump has spent 45 minutes in “Mexico is not our friend,” he’s totally sympatico with our neighbors to the south. Where sympatico means he didn’t just dodge the question of who would pay for his great, great wall—he flat out lied about it. Because in his first chance to play deal-maker with a world leader, he got shot down.
And now he’s prepared a slide show so he can tell the nation about his adventures in darkest Mexico City.
Odds are that you shouldn't expect much from Trump’s speech this evening. Don’t expect any definitive answer about 11, or 16 or 30 million undocumented workers being hauled away, and certainly don’t expect to hear any of the how this impossible task might happen. Don’t expect a “deportation force.” Don’t expect Trump to admit he was given a big fat no from Mexico on wall funding.
Do expect that he’ll attack HIllary Clinton. Do expect he’ll claim that her plan is “open borders” and that she wants to flood America with job destroying, citizen murdering, terror-rapists.
And do listen closely for something that amounts to having immigrants do a “touch back” by briefly leaving the country—a policy that Trump previously belittled, but which his surrogates are now trying to pretend was always part of the plan.
Overall, expect the speech to be 99% Hillary bashing, 1% Trump policies, and 104% “wasn’t I so brave for spending an hour in awful, awful Mexico?”
Thursday, Sep 1, 2016 · 1:36:18 AM +00:00
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Mark Sumner
Starts off with the Trump’s “love” for the people of Mexico. And things they talked about. And … and …
He’s not going to talk about them paying for the wall. Nope. Not gonna.
Ah, now he’s moving on to how the immigration is really terrible, and the media is keeping it secret from you.
Here comes the truth.
Thursday, Sep 1, 2016 · 1:41:35 AM +00:00
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Mark Sumner
So we’re going to pull up the parents of the people who lost their kids to immigrants. And Hillary Clinton killed them in advance! Those who thought Hillary only killed 85 people really underestimated.
Trump is back at 110% volume and 214% hate.
San Francisco gets an extra big boo.