The obviously incompetent Donald Trump held a meeting with congressional leaders to jumpstart an immigration debate today. As usual, his contributions was gibberish. Per the pool report:
It should be a “bill of love” but also the country needs stronger borders to stem drugs from coming through, POTUS said. [...]
POTUS said other countries “give you the people they don’t want” and “the United States takes those people.”
Regarding his actual policy stances, he does not appear to have any, instead telling the assembled crowd “My positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with.”
Regarding how Congress should move forward, Trump agreed to, apparently, all options. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked Trump whether he would support "a clean DACA bill now with a commitment to do comprehensive [reform] next?"
"I would agree to that."
But when Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy pushed back, proposing that border security be included in that "clean" bill, Trump appeared to believe that was what he had just agreed to. He also asserted the same in response to reporter questions.
So he doesn't appear to know what he's agreeing to, or what it will contain, and he appears in fact to be indifferent to what policy comes out of the talks, saying his own positions will be whatever the assembled crowd "comes up with."
Also not present: notions that Mexico will pay for any of it. That campaign talk is dead, dead, dead, and the billions of dollars being requested for a new and improved "wall" by whoever's got the keys to Trump's brain this week are expected to come from taxpayers.