Posted on 08/05/2015 7:21:39 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Donald Trump - who Fox News said literally will be at the center of its GOP primary debate on Thursday - is already feeling the heat from network hosts.
On Tuesday, Fox's Bill O'Reilly grilled the billionaire businessman on his claim that as president he will get Mexico to pay for a wall on the southern U.S. border to help prevent undocumented immigrants from crossing into the United States.
"Bill, they're making a fortune, Mexico is making a fortune off the United States, it's becoming the new China in terms of trade -- they're killing us at the border," Trump said after O'Reilly pressed him twice on the same question.
The third time O'Reilly asked, Trump said, "I'm gonna say, 'Mexico, this is not going to continue, you're going to pay for that wall,' and they will pay for the wall. ..."
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But, but, some might say Trump doesn't play nice with the media. So what. Big deal. Like that will get anything done. P.T. Barnum said the way to get attention, and basically drive up sales and have a carnival like atmosphere is to start a fight. We have had enough fights and what seems to be rope-a-dope ad nauseum is getting old.
More sarcasm - Host: How will you build the wall?
I will get Mexico to pay for it.
Host: How?
China has a big wall, thousands of miles long.
Host: Uhhhh, ok... Yeah. They built it then, but we aren't talking about that and their building of it doesn't mean you can tell them to do it and they just will. Again, how are you go to build it?
Did I say that was really rich? I'm really rich.
Host: How is that going to build a wall?
Did I say that I'm reallllllly smart?
Host: How is that going to build a wall?
I'm really rich. did I say that yet? - Sarcasm off.
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Great post! Shows the depth of the thoughts of Trump.
He NEVER answers HOW he will do anything!
I like what he says too but I live in the real world and know it isn’t quite that simple.
Trump's ego is so huge (or is it YUUUGE?), and he has been surrounded by yes-men for so long, that, to Trump, "because I say so" IS an answer to how he will do something.
do you think the media ever asked obama how he could increase coverage and increase benefit of health care and still cut cost? Nope, OBama simply say so and the media report and circle the wagon, never wondering how it was possible and attack anyone who ask how
I took O’Reilly to task when Obama gave executive amnesty for some Dreamers by bringing up a past show where O’Reilly said that Obama giving deferment to dreamers was the “humane thing” to do. I was attacked for this by some saying that I was not being very nice for bringing this back up.
But I imagine they will be singing a different tune now about O’Reilly.
And some sure like the polls from CNN and other outfits that show Trump way up over others (even if it is a “liberal” outfit that is giving the poll), but if it is a poll that shows him much lower than others then it is an establishment poll, from a “liberal” outfit” and must not be trusted...
Same ol same ol.
RE: Great post! Shows the depth of the thoughts of Trump.
He NEVER answers HOW he will do anything!
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Here’s an idea — how much foreign aid does Mexico receive from the USA?
We can use that money to pay for the Wall and tell Mexico, “There — you paid for it.”
From what I’ve read about Trump, this is just what he does. He has a history of making vague, grandiose promises and never delivering.
But can’t he just say “Let there be a wall, and there was a wall,” similar to Genesis 1:3?
And people were caught up then thinking that Obama could change things by just the power of his words and his persuasiveness.
And perhaps some are making that same mistake on the Republican side now.
US Foreign Aid to Mexico (Circa 2013 ):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid
U.S. Total Economic and Military Assistance FY 2013, $US millions: $420 M
Economic Assistance FY 2013, $US millions: $349 M
$420 + $349 = $769 M
We can start with that number and charge it to them.
One way to do it is to tax remittances and use the tax to pay for a wall. That way the immigrants themselves would pay for it.
Great. Start a potential trade war. That’s the ticket.
Irony
LOL...
I agree!
There is actually a pretty easy way for Mexico (or at least Mexicans) to pay for the wall. A tax on remittances to Mexico.
In 2013, over $23,000,000,000 were sent to Mexico from abroad, the vast majority from the United States.
If the United States wanted to send a strong message, they could slap a 10% remittance tax on those money transfers and designate it to building a wall.
Almost $2,000,000,000 a year would go directly into the funding of building a wall, all of it from Mexicans.
But didn’t he say that he was really smart? /s. LOL.
Exactly!
good idea. you could get a good chunk of wall for $209m. But Trump will not be a CEO / King. He will need to work with others. We will see how well he can persuade people to his ideas.
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