During Friday’s nonsensical Rose Garden press conference, Individual-1 rambled on incoherently, and at one point, claimed his endless crusade to build a Wall By Any Other Name had been privately embraced by those who came before him, during apparently intimate conversations about their presidential failures.
Obviously we all know he’s making this crap up as he goes along, but let’s confirm it.
Though he’s refused to acknowledge Trump’s latest blatant lie, Barack Obama, of course, has repeatedly, publicly, and passionately rejected Trump’s Beaded Curtain dreams. America’s Favorite President is very polite about it, of course, but he said what he said.
“Suggesting that we can build an endless wall along our borders, and blame our challenges on immigrants — that doesn’t just run counter to our history as the world’s melting pot, it contradicts the evidence that our growth and our innovation and our dynamism has always been spurred by our ability to attract strivers from every corner of the globe.”
That was in 2016.
George W. Bush, through spokesman Freddy Ford, said the Republicans have “never” discussed the Beautiful Steel Barrier.
Bill Clinton, through his spokesman Angel Ureña, not only denies sharing wistful woulda coulda shouldas, with Trump—he admits they haven’t spoken a word to each other in almost two years, “since the inauguration.”
Now, despite “some” meaning “an unspecified number of,” Trump does seem to be using the word as a plural, indicating at least two of the ex-presidents took Trump as their confidant. Yet we’ve only got one left: Jimmy Carter.
Like Obama, America’s eldest living Commander in Chief did not deign to comment on the “yuge” lie; however, Carter has also spoken out against Trump in the past, and one comment in particular seems very, very appropriate in this case.
"I think it's well-known that the incumbent president is very careless with the truth."
And just like that, Mister WallMonger, you’re out of presidents.
While the former leaders spoke through their reps (or not at all), one former vice president was happy to offer his thoughts on the matter directly to the media. When asked if he thought ex-presidents had whispered their deepest border wall regrets to Donald Trump, as they stroked his flaxen skull covering, begging him to construct a “beautiful” endless sea of steel slats—steel slats that weren’t even Trump’s idea, Joe Biden, caught in an airport by CNN’s Randi Kaye, didn’t mince words.
Nailed it.