Considering the White House spent the last week pressing its completely failed bid to get government funding for building a border wall, Donald Trump’s Tuesday comments downgrading the timing of its construction are a pretty stunning reversal. As Bradd Jaffy notes in short:
Trump: “The wall's gonna get built folks”
Q: When?
Trump: “Soon”
Q: 1st term?
Trump: [hesitates] “Yea. Yea. Sure…We have plenty of time”
In the first term … maybe? ... is how that both reads and looks in the video below. Seems Tuesday Trump has tamped down his number one priority from an imminent necessity to a four-year/second-term kind of promise now. "We have plenty of time.”
Cue the media praising Trump’s “flexibility,” otherwise known as a total cave in a parallel universe with a normal president.
Watch the video below.
Trump’s wall answer starts around 28 seconds in.