Trump Insists He Hasn’t Changed View On The Wall After Kelly Says Otherwise

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After White House chief of staff John Kelly said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s views on the border wall and immigration have evolved since the election, the President on Thursday morning fired off tweets insisting that nothing has changed.

Trump claimed that he never called for the wall to stretch along the entire southern border and refused to back off his dubious prediction that Mexico will pay for the wall.

Trump did not name Kelly in his tweets, but the frustration in his morning rant was clearly aimed at his chief of staff.

Kelly’s remarks about Trump’s views on immigration were first reported by the Washington Post Wednesday night. Kelly told lawmakers in a closed-door meeting that some of Trump’s immigration policy proposals during the campaign were “uninformed,” per the Washington Post. He said that the U.S. would not build a wall along the entire southern border and that Mexico would not pay for it, the Post reported.

The chief of staff followed up with an interview on Fox News, during which he said he told congressional lawmakers that candidates “all say things during the course of campaigns that may or may not be fully informed.” Kelly told Fox that Trump has “very definitely changed his attitude” on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and on the wall.

“So he has evolved in the way he’s looked at things,” Kelly said on Fox News. “Campaign to governing are two different things and this president has been very, very flexible in terms of what is within the realms of the possible.”

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  1. Avatar for phi phi says:

    Ok Dump, I’m putting this in terms even your barely functional brain can deal with.

    NO FUCKING WALL.

    We are not spending $20 billion on a structure that will serve no purpose except as a monument to racism and jingoism and your NPD. It’s a confederate statue in wall form and no decent Americans will ever tolerate it.

  2. A “see through” wall, befitting an emperor with no clothes.

  3. Avatar for docd docd says:

    He has to support the wall because the only people who still think he’s credible are deluded enough to believe that a wall will help.
    But the trade deficit…I don’t get it. Without creating crippling export or import duties, how would trade provide a source of revenue?

  4. Fight Truth Decay!

  5. Oh Mr. Kelly!
    It looks like your boy hasn’t been taking his meds.
    Better watch your step boy-o
    It’s sycophant or nothing around Donny boy

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