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President Trump early Thursday morning sought to clarify remarks he made regarding his long-promised wall along the southern border, saying he was only kidding when he mentioned that a barrier was being constructed along the nonborder state of Colorado.
"Kiddingly- Were building a Wall in Colorado," Trump said on Twitter, before arguing that he intended to say that residents in states like Colorado and Kansas were getting the benefit of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump sparked mockery from several Democratic lawmakers Wednesday night after telling a crowd at the Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh that the U.S. was in the process of building a wall along the southern border of Colorado, a state that sits directly north New Mexico.
Meanwhile, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) tweeted a photo of a U.S. map with a sharpie altering the boundaries of the U.S.-Mexico border.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/467228-trump-says-remark-about-colorado-border-wall-was-made-kiddingly
crazytown
(7,277 posts)evah
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)still are an idiot.
louis-t
(23,296 posts)"Jolly Joker".
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)was the crowd applauding the announcement of a Colorado wall instead of the stunned silence it should have engendered.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)jcgoldie
(11,638 posts)He wasn't kidding. He said explicitly that Kansas gets no wall and Colorado does. Nice try.
ConstanceCee
(314 posts)You have to say what you mean and mean what you say.
matt819
(10,749 posts)He's known for his keen sense of humor.
And he's appealing to the similarly keen sense of humor among his band of cultists.
Ever see a conservative so-called comedian. I catch a clip now and then. Conservative? Sure. Funny? Not so much. Well, not at all.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Or do only stable geniuses use it?
After his letter to Erdogan, I can see where that skill comes from...
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If he fucked up what he was trying to say, then he fucked up. He doesn't get to hide behind "kidding." Just after the remark about building the wall in Colorado, he said that while Kansas wasn't going to have the wall built there, Kansas would enjoy the alleged benefits of Trump's fabled wall. So for a moment or two, he was able to give voice to his "thoughts" accurately enough for Kansas, but not Colorado.
The guy even lies about his lying.
Johonny
(20,878 posts)because he never lets anything (but the Kurds) go.
Kid Berwyn
(14,950 posts)No kidding!
KPN
(15,649 posts)Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)It was obvious he meant what he said about Colorado. That was no joke, that was a fuck up.
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)that orange ass is a fucking moron
rustysgurl
(1,040 posts)... and I meant what I said. I don't know geography ... 100%!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,590 posts)He doesn't "kid." He never laughs. He only ridicules others with school yard taunts.
Get him out of office and let him keep tweeting his lies. If he doesn't like libel laws now, wait until he gets hit with a tsunami of lawsuits, and no one to say, "A president can shoot people and not even be stopped."