Trump Repeats Vague Threat To ‘Close’ Border Unless Congress, Mexico Act

By Matt Shuham

April 2, 2019 2:45 p.m.

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hoagie says:

April 2, 2019

Clearly, no one is taking this “threat” seriously. Go take a nap old man.
emiliano4 says:

April 2, 2019

If Trump had 1/100th of the concern for the real emergency in Puerto Rico as for his made-up one in Mexico, the island would have been on the way to recovery.
inversion says:

April 2, 2019

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left_in_washington_state says:

April 2, 2019

This was just a small part of another mental diarrhea session.

He also made the NATO rep (Soltenberg?) say that NATO is the strongest it’s ever been since donnie became pres.
inversion says:

April 2, 2019

Unfortunately some are in the GOP are saying this as well and I’m ok with that too.