Trump Says Sinai Peninsula Attack Justifies Wall On Mexican Border

President Donald Trump speaks with members of the U.S. Coast Guard, at the Lake Worth Inlet Station, on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017, in Riviera Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the U.S. Coast Guard at the Lake Worth Inlet Station, on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017, in Riviera Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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President Donald Trump on Friday condemned what he called the “[h]orrible and cowardly terrorist attack” in the Sinai Peninsula earlier in the day. He later said the attack was justification for building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Associated Press reported Friday that the attack, a combination of explosions and gunfire, had resulted in at least 200 deaths.

Hours later on Friday, Trump said the attack proved the necessity for “the WALL” and “the BAN!”

This post has been updated.

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  1. "The world cannot tolerate terrorism, we must defeat them militarily…

    Donnie, send over some F35s to take them out. They'll never see them coming.
  2. “…discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence!”

    I don’t think Donald Trump wrote this Tweet, and he certainly did not write that last line. That’s just way too complex of a concept for the dotard to have composed himself.

  3. Between Rounds of Golf Trump Condemned. Headline Fixed.

  4. Crayola™ minds don’t express themselves like this, I agree.

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