If you think there is any normative boundary Trump wouldn't smash through to get what he wants-- no matter how banal-- you haven't been paying attention or you haven't known Trump archetypes. I once worked for someone-- a multimillionaire many times over-- who got out of a taxi we were riding in and a dime dropped out of his pocket. A homeless person was laying on the sidewalk and thought my boss had thrown him the coin and grabbed-- at which point my boss started fighting with him. They wound up rolling around on the ground-- for a dime. Having known that guy for many decades, I know everything about Trump. They are virtually the same person.Mattis and others around the misanthrope won't allow him to start a war, but they'd let him start a make-believe war for his opioid and low IQ supporters-- one that will pit the U.S. military against an imaginary horde of invaders from Central America, who probably won't make it to northern Mexico before the Democrats are in power and investigating why Trump is wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a naked political stunt. He demanded that the military shoot anyone who throws a stone or, presumably a slipper. "I will tell you, anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico and the Mexican military, Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm. They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. We’ll consider-- and I told them-- consider it a rifle. When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military and police, I say consider it a rifle."Thursday night, Newsweek, using leaked documents from someone inside the Pentagon revealed that Trump was informed by the Pentagon-- before he ordered the military to deploy more than 5,200 troops to the border-- that "only a small percentage" (maybe 20%) of Central American migrants traveling with several "caravans" headed toward the U.S. would even make it to the border and that there is nothing even approaching a national security threat. Trump is the worst national security threat the U.S. faces.
The estimates revealed in the documents, marked as “UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO//LES” (meaning the documents are for official use only and are law enforcement sensitive), stand in stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s claims of an “invasion” at the U.S. border.In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday, Trump appeared to dismiss reports on the caravans’ dwindling numbers, asserting that he was good at determining crowd sizes and knew there were “thousands and thousands” of people traveling with the caravans, based on coverage he had seen of migrants crossing a bridge into Mexico.Not a panzer division... but they better not throw any teddy bears-- or else“That’s called an invasion of our country,” Trump said....Trump has rejected claims from critics that his administration’s decision to deploy troops to the border was part of a bid to stoke immigration fears ahead of the November 6 midterm elections.“This has nothing to do with elections,” Trump said. “I’ve been saying this long before election[s]. I’ve been saying this before I ever thought of running for office. We have to have strong borders. If we don’t have strong borders, we don’t have a country.”Still, in the days before the quickly approaching November midterm elections, the president has ramped up the rhetoric on his administration’s immigration crackdown.
