There is a Trump plague on the 'new' border wall that was visited by Trump today....

[riversedge]

Sorry--but you will have to read in Reverse order: 5 tweets:
Wonder whose idea this was???


**edited to add pic of Plaque.....

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Jake TapperVerified account @jaketapper
3h3 hours ago

5/ The president was convinced by experts in his administration that bollard fencing was much smarter than a concrete wall. So he went with that.

But that's why we have a fence with a plaque on it calling the fence a "wall." Which is on its face kind of strange.
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?Verified account @jaketapper
3h3 hours ago

4/ ...and a running joke among border agents, a source tells me, is that the plaque will serve as a decent foothold for migrants looking to hop the fence.

Then there's this: the fencing is not an immense concrete wall as once promised....


Jake Tapper Verified account @jaketapper
3h3 hours ago

3/ ...and with the design that the President approved. CBP officials give Trump credit for making the funding a priority to the degree previous presidents did not.

That said, it's not being paid for by Mexico,..
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3h3 hours ago

2/ Yes, this replacement fence was planned by the US gov dating back to 2009. All of these barriers have been planned in some way. shape or form for at least a decade. But Trump is the one who pushed for funding and made it a priority, thus the funding was allocated in 2017...
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Jake Tapper
?Verified account @jaketapper
3h3 hours ago

There's a real divide among government officials about whether the border fence the president is visiting today is what it says on the plaque bolted to it: the "first section of President Trump's border wall."

Here's what I've learned. 1/

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[notdarkyet]

1. Cheap ugly, stupid looking plaque, that will disappear shortly.

[unblock]

2. You probably meant "trump plaque". Then again, "trump plague" sounds about right....

[3catwoman3]

3. He'd probably put a plaque on one of his...

...stools, after gilding it with the fake gold he is so fond of, commemorating the biggest, bestest poop ever .

[Initech]

4. Someone in the Trump administration owns a fencing company!

[keithbvadu2]

9. But he needs to buy steel from his Russian pals.

[Initech]

10. *Trump voice* Buy American!!! America first!!!

[keithbvadu2]

11. Yeah! Still waiting for Trump family products to be made in America.

[IADEMO2004]

5. Trump plague on every US state territory and rest of the world.

[Leghorn21]

6. A reply to Tapper:

You know Trump No Wall is his mob name now, right?

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

7. **edited the OP to add pic of Plaque.....

**edited to add pic of Plaque.....

Link to tweet

[BigmanPigman]

8. I drove to Tecate, Mexico last week for the first time since he

became the fake prez and was paranoid. I brought my passport and wallet passport just in case. I love Tecate since there are no lines, no one speaks English and it is sincere, small town Mexico (the opposite of Tijuana). It was even EASIER to come back into the US. They didn't ask to look in my bag, check my left overs and at the border checkpoint 25 miles inland we weren't even pulled over (that has never happened in the 15+ times I have made the trip). There weren't any immigrants lined up either. It was quiet, safe, speedy and normal. If anyone wants to know how dangerous the border crossing is, come to Tecate.

***I had to look for the "new" fence/wall. There wasn't anything but shiny, new wire on top of the existing fence. Was this worth shutting the country down and losing billions $$$ ?

[riversedge]

13. It is razor wire. Dangerous.

[BigmanPigman]

14. Some people in Mexico are stealing it

for their own use.

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. What does it cost everytime this grandstanding SOB runs out of town to get in front of the cameras?

So he had nothing to do with the entire project except putting up a plaque.

It wouldn't surprise me if his cost incurred for flights and travel has exceeded the total travel costs of the last 5 presidents combined. He doesn't want to do any real work related to his office; he just wants to spend time grandstanding and being recorded while lying to the public who he thinks is as stupid as he is.

[fescuerescue]

15. Why would Obama be upgrading the fence?

I would more expect that he would tear it down.

Something doesn't make sense here.

[Danascot]

16. Trump's wall: High winds blow over section of US-Mexico border fence

This happened yesterday.



https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51307868