President Donald Trump remains adamantly committed to his argument that the United States needs a wall along the border with Mexico, no matter what real life issues stand in his way. This Tuesday night, he will be delivering a primetime address to the nation from the Oval Office about the supposed crisis at the border, he confirmed in a Monday Twitter post.
He explained:
‘I am pleased to inform you that I will Address the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border. Tuesday night at 9:00 P.M. Eastern.’
Plenty of Americans are no doubt not at all “pleased” to hear Trump’s announcement. The federal government remains partially shut down for what’s approaching three weeks thanks to his refusal to approve any funding without the billions he wants for his border wall. That shutdown has left hundreds of thousands of workers indefinitely without pay.
Also on Monday, the White House announced that Trump would be heading to the border for what he’s called a “groundbreaking for the wall” — which he has, mind you, claimed at times has already been constructed in some areas. He’s just stumbling all over himself.
His administration continues to push lies about the danger to the United States posed by immigration over the southern border that will no doubt make an appearance in his Tuesday night remarks. This past weekend, for instance, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied yet again on national television that the southern border is vulnerable to terrorists. In fact, as Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace pointed out to her, there remains absolutely no evidence of terrorist activity seeking to utilize the United States’ border with Mexico.
That’s just one issue of many issues. Trump has consistently claimed that immigrants pose some kind of unique criminal threat to the United States despite the glaring lack of evidence.
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