Livewire

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

by
04.02.19 | 2:45 pm

Matt Shuham is an independent journalist. His reporting has appeared in Talking Points Memo, where he worked for six years, as well as HuffPost and The Washington Post. He can be reached on Signal at mattshuham.01 (don’t use a work device or network), by email at mattshuham@protonmail.com, or by phone at 646-397-4678.
Includes: 
31
Show Comments

Notable Replies

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

  2. 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.

  4. 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.

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

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

25 more replies

Participants

Avatar for thehatter Avatar for meri Avatar for mattinpa Avatar for steviedee111 Avatar for george_spiggott Avatar for inversion Avatar for left_in_washington_state Avatar for riverstreet Avatar for twowolves Avatar for hoagie Avatar for darrtown Avatar for georgemilquetoast Avatar for brewhousebob Avatar for castor_troy Avatar for katscherger Avatar for kumquat16 Avatar for dangnewt Avatar for the_loan_arranger Avatar for katex Avatar for causeforconcern Avatar for occamscoin Avatar for rascal_crone Avatar for haddockbranzini Avatar for emiliano4

Continue Discussion
LATEST
Where Things Stand
Trump’s Desperate Data Center Pivot
10.21.26 | 5:09 pm
Cafe
Clearing Up Some Misconceptions About FDR’s Court-Packing Plan
10.21.26 | 1:55 pm
Morning Memo
DOJ’s List of Noncitizen Voters Exposed As Crap
10.21.26 | 11:09 am
The Brief
Todd Blanche Gets Sucked Into Trump World’s Pre-Midterms Drama
10.21.26 | 8:18 am