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    Trump, the great 'builder,' is erecting a glorified picket fence instead of a wall

    Trump, the great 'builder,' is erecting a glorified picket fence instead of a wall


    Eddie Scarry
    12/13/2018


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    When President Trump last summer said to a stadium of supporters, “I’m a builder. That’s what I do. That’s probably what I do best,” I suspect they had in mind more impressive architecture than a wall, but that’s all they wanted anyway.

    Two years into his presidency, the most Trump has managed to build are bits and pieces of what a mounts to a high picket fence.

    The administration in late November proudly sent out an email featuring a before-and-after set of images purporting to show the swimming progress on the construction of the wall. They look like those infomercials for anti-wrinkle creams, wherein the model in one slide is shown frowning under ghastly florescent light and then in the second slide giving a radiant smile with a soft camera focus.

    It’s a scam.

    The administration’s “after” photo is nothing more than new fencing put up after border patrol as far back as 2009 identified specific areas where enhanced barriers were needed due to high crossing rates. It looks nothing like the massive prototypes Trump was photographed with in March.

    Those walls underwent intensive testing for potential weaknesses by both the military and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, using power tools, torches, and ropes, according tothe Associated Press. Only one agent was able to throw a hook atop one of the walls so that he might climb up. Everything else failed, though agents did recommend combining elements of each prototype if any actual structure were to be put up on the border.

    Those are the walls his supporters fantasize about when Trump says “we need a wall.” Though they could be forgiven for being unsure whether a wall has already been built, whether it’s almost completed, or whether it’s even still needed.

    Depending on the hour, Trump speedily shifts between declaring victory on the wall and pleading to Democrats for votes to pass more funding for it.

    At the on-camera Oval Office meeting Tuesday with Democratic leaders, Trump at one point said, “So we’ve done a lot of work on the wall; a lot of wall is built.” And then he said, “We have walls that were in very bad condition that are now in A-1, tip-top shape. And, frankly, some wall has been reinforced by our military. Our military has done a fantastic job.”

    So do we need the wall, is there already a wall that’s simply getting a makeover (not what he promised), or is the military the wall?

    At yet another point in the meeting, Trump all but insisted a wall was unnecessary because of the tremendous job that border patrol is doing. “[W]hen you look at these numbers of the effectiveness of our border security, and when you look at the job that we’re doing with our military …” he said.

    In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Trump said building a wall would be cost-effective but only after heralding the “newly built Walls, makeshift Walls & Fences, or Border Patrol Officers & Military.”

    Trump is asking for $5 billion to build more “wall.” Were he trying to build a real wall and not some reinforced playground fence, he'd be asking for closer to $30 billion.

    “[I]f we got $5 billion, we could do a tremendous chunk of wall,” Trump said at the meeting Tuesday.

    But what “wall” is he talking about? Does he know anymore?
    I don’t.

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    Note the date: This is what was going on the last time Trump was attempting to get funding for his border wall. Of the funding never happened.




    President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he reviews border wall prototypes, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego.
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    Trump’s ‘beautiful’ barriers bear no resemblance to his original plan

    12/26/18 11:30 AM

    By Steve Benen

    On Friday afternoon, just hours ahead of the government shutdown, Donald Trump published a never-before-seen image via Twitter of black steel bars. “A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful!” the president wrote.

    It caught many observers a little off-guard. For one thing, the image was a bit of a mess: the enlarged close-up of the pointed tips of the steel bars bore little resemblance to the rest of the image. For another, even the White House’s congressional allies had no idea why Trump had rolled out this new image so late in the appropriations fight.

    “The president put out a tweet of a picture with spikes on top of fencing, that’s not even in the conversation,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said. “That’s not even in one of the designs the border patrol has proposed.”

    And yet, two days later, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney described Trump’s strange tweet as the core of the president’s current plan. From his “Fox News Sunday” interview with Chris Wallace:

    MULVANEY: It’s important that everyone understands a language that everyone is using. The president tweeted out a picture yesterday the steel fence, the steel slated fence with a pointed top and so forth, that’s what we want to build…. We’ve already told the Democrats we want to build what the president tweeted out. It doesn’t have to be a 30-foot high concrete.
    WALLACE: So, you think that they would approve $1.3 billion to build this steal picket fence?

    MULVANEY: Exactly. Well, the steel barriers that the president tweeted out.

    I realize there are a variety of elements of this debate that seem ridiculous, but Mulvaney’s comments added an especially confusing element to the debate.
    Two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, the White House has decided that what the Republican actually wants is a massive border barrier, made up of steel spikes that are roughly 30 feet tall. Administration officials apparently arrived at this point just hours before a government-shutdown deadline, picking this odd design without sharing it in advance with members of Congress.

    According to Trump’s new chief of staff, the White House “wants to build what the president tweeted out,” but if that’s true – and with these guys, it’s hard to know from one day to the next – it means Trump and his team quietly gave up on the president’s earlier plan without telling anyone.

    Remember, as a candidate, Trump vowed to build a concrete wall, and as a president, Trump’s administration solicited bids for a “solid concrete border wall.” As recently as yesterday, the president said he intends to keep the government shut down until Congress approves funding for his wall.

    Except, according to the White House, what Trump actually wants to build is “what the president tweeted out.”

    It’s why that quote from Oklahoma’s James Lankford struck me as so notable: “The president put out a tweet of a picture with spikes on top of fencing, that’s not even in the conversation. That’s not even in one of the designs the border patrol has proposed.”

    That, evidently, was before the White House decided that it was time to abandon what Trump proposed and said he wanted.


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    I understand why he tweeted out those pictures. It is just a stall tactic. Now, we will see long paragraphs explaining it can't be started until prototypes are built, it can't be started until they decide if it will be blue, brown, or gray. It can't be started because he didn't get the money, because Congress voted for not pointed and Trump wants pointed, and on and on.
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