Is the border wall being bargained away?
Sep 18, 2017, 5:52 AM
There seems to be this idea floating around in Washington that President Trump is so eager to get Democratic support for a deal on immigration reform — maybe even tax reform — that he would accept a Democratic proposal for a border security package, even if it doesn’t include the immense wall that seemed to be evolving during the campaign.
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It prompted Chris Wallace to pose this question to the panel on Fox News Sunday.
“What do you think the reaction of the real Trump hardliners — the real base — will be if they get a deal on DACA that includes citizenship and doesn’t include a wall as it had been commonly thought to exist?”
And I think I can assure the base right now, that will never happen.
There will be a Trump Wall. The promise will be kept, and I think I know how. The promise will be kept because both sides will conspire to keep it.
We know that the president himself will at some point tweet that the Big Beautiful Wall -– with the new transparent windows that he promised last July -– is taking shape exactly as advertised.
Normally, Democrats would be all over the talk shows ridiculing any such claim. But I think that on this one they will remain relatively quiet. Because what would be the point of criticizing the president for not building a wall they didn’t want him to build anyway?
My guess is that if he follows through on immigration reform, even Democrats would be perfectly happy to pretend the Trump Wall is there. And is, in fact, the biggest, bestest, and most transparent wall ever.
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