If it's that easy to close the border with Mexico, why do we need a $50 billion wall?

[iluvtennis]

@RonaldKlain
If it's that easy to close the border with Mexico, why do we need a $50 billion wall?

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That's a really good question.

[StarryNite]

1. I wondered about that as well.

[Doreen]

2. That was one of my first thoughts

when I heard him say he was going to shut down the border.

[DFW]

3. That's an easy one

$15 billion for border fortification and $25 billion to pay off Trump's personal and family debts, plus putting about $10 billion in his accounts around the world so that he can finally be as rich as he has been claiming all along.

[iluvtennis]

7. LOL

[Thekaspervote]

4. Oh ... you mean you aren't taken in by that? Dotard thinks u r so it must be

[Igel]

5. Because of the meaning of the term.

Closing the border would be officially stopping trade and legal crossings.

The border between ports of entry are by default closed. Just as we don't know who crosses where there's no monitoring, so we don't know what's crossing where there's no monitoring. But officially it's still closed.

[Vinca]

6. Completely off topic, but notice Don's production sense is diminishing.

His giant gold urn casts such a wide shadow, Don looks like he's the opener for "Tales From the Crypt."

[Dirty Socialist]

8. Being a real estate tycoon

Trump feels the need to build something - anything! Even if it makes us look like East Germany.