Trump Says Border Wall Has Worked in San Antonio, a City 150 Miles North of the Border That Has...

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite



Trump Says Border Wall Has Worked in San Antonio, a City 150 Miles North of the Border That Has No Wall

by Aidan McLaughlin | Jan 19th, 2019, 12:47 pm

Ahead of his planned speech on Saturday to address immigration and the ongoing government shutdown, President Donald Trump made the case for his border wall to reporters outside the White House.

“Everybody knows that walls work,” Trump said. “You look at different places they put up a wall, no problem. You look at San Antonio, you look at so many different places. They go from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities, immediately.”

Link to tweet

One problem with Trump’s claim: San Antonio, in Texas, is some 150 miles from the border with Mexico. It does not have a border wall.

To make matters more interesting, San Antonio’s congressman is Republican Will Hurd, who has repeatedly dismissed Trump’s wall as pointless.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-says-border-wall-has-worked-in-san-antonio-a-city-100-miles-north-of-the-border-that-has-no-wall/

[thegoose]

1. What an asshole

Not only are we miles away from any border, we're also super integrated and embrace the Latinx culture with vigor.

[MarcA]

2. Must have been thinking about the Walls at the Alamo.

Which IIRC didn't work so well.

[regnaD kciN]

43. "Remember the Alamo Border Wall!!!"

And, what do you mean, they "didn't work so well?" Without them, would we have a fantastic low-cost car rental company? Huh???

#MakeCarRentalsGreatAgain

[Leghorn21]

3. "I look at this place, I look at that place. I look at the places over here, I look at the places

over there. I look at so many different places, and I look at them often.

I just look, I don’t do anything else but look. I look over here, and I look over there, at all the different places. So many places to look at, and they’re all so different!”

have mercy

Hey WAIT - does San Antonio have any wheels??!

[delisen]

4. Sounds like an old Dick and Jane reader circa 1950?

[Leghorn21]

9. '55, '56, actually (for me!)

good times!

[murielm99]

13. Maybe.

It sounds more like Dr. Seuss to me.

[trev]

38. Sounds more like Dr Seuss to me

[3catwoman3]

52. To update those readers, we would have to change...

...”See Dick. See Dick run,” to “See THE Dick. See THE Dick eff up everything.”

My now-26 yr old younger son did not know that Dick was a nickname for Richard. We were pulling up tp a Dick’s Sporting Goods store, and, with some surprise, asked me, “Why would someone name a store THAT?”

[LakeSuperiorView]

21. Gover has the answer...

Around, around, around, around. Over and Under and Though.

[FrodosNewPet]

45. Wanna really blow Dolt 45's mind?

Point out that some wheels (tires) have white walls! It would be like jingling a set of keys in front of a baby.

[PeeJ52]

5. Are our reporters not intelligent enough to inform him of the fact San Antonio has no wall?

Why do they let him get away with such blatant lies. Call him out immediately... Don't let him get away...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. There is a wall around the Alamo.

It worked well for a couple of days.

[erronis]

14. But if there was a Wheel around the Alamo, then history would have changed!

Davy Crockett (my history of this is fuzzy) could have just Wheeled the Alamo somewhere else. Totally confounding those invading Mexicans!

That's What We should do with the Whiny Wall Wanna. Wheel him out of the room to some safe place. Give him/in a pacifier (laden with anti-stimulant meds) and let him sit in his own sh1te for several days at a time. Give the caregivers huuuuge wages to deal with the intelligence-deficient condition.

[Cold War Spook]

16. What invading Mexican?

The Alamo was in Mexico.

[leftieNanner]

17. But it wouldn't have been

if we had let Donnie build his wall then.



What an idiot.

[tclambert]

40. Well, now, the Mexicans did eventually find a way in.

Only took a couple of weeks. (13 days)

[Totally Tunsie]

53. If there were a wheel around the Alamo,

the invaders would have just bounced off the rubber!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

54. Nah, they would have tread tirelessly until they breached the rim.

Any way you slice it, the Alamo was going to be flattened.

[IcyPeas]

15. PeeJ52, exactly....

I wish they would call him out immediately when he live on TV!!!!

[haele]

6. It didn't work too well in 1836...

I've been to San Antonio. Isn't there this two/three block sized National Historic Monument in the center of town there? Didn't seem that walls worked very well then.

Haele

[Achilleaze]

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[qazplm135]

8. lives in San Antonio...

looks around...sees no wall.

[MaryMagdaline]

10. Shades of George HW saying Miami was only 90 miles from Florida

Which was Freudian and actually funny. Funny because we all knew bush knew where Miami is. This guy, though ...

[rustysgurl]

11. But everyone knows ...

... that San Antonio is FULL of Mexican people, which must mean it's close to the border, right???

The stupid hurts.

[Shoonra]

18. San Antonio's most historic wall

Everyone knows that the central landmark in San Antonio is the Alamo mission. Back in 1836, in an early attack on the Alamo, Mexican cannon had done considerable damage to one of the external walls. The defenders hastily constructed a wooden wall to replace the brick wall. A bit too hastily .... they hammered together planks of woods and raised them up in such a way that the planks actually provided the Mexican infantry with ladder steps up the wall, making it easy for them to overrun the Mission.

So San Antonio history provides an instance when an anti-Mexican wall was actually a serious mistake.

[B Stieg]

19. Without its wall, the Bowling Green Massacre would have been much worse.

[dhol82]

35. Snort.

[shadowmayor]

20. Who knew Texas was such a big place?

Puerto Rico is surrounded by water? Who knew?

Can we send this idiot to Nambia now?

[Stuart G]

36. I am afraid Nambia would not take him..

...There is one place that would have him, right here in the U.S.A. In Alaska, in some forest far away from humans.. Some food, a nice high TV antenna, plenty of McDonalds sent daily! It needs to be near a road, so he can get to town. It will need to be a small town that doesn't give a shit who comes to town. He will indeed need extra walls around his house in the forest, to keep out the winter cold, and the bears. (and other animals) Plenty of video tapes and 4 or five cable networks all specially connected so he can watch thousands of channels. Oh..another house close by for his staff of advisors and hangers on. Daily newspapers so he can read what's up and specially selected .."women of the night" since his wife will not go to Alaska..
...Now if it were isolated enough, Alaska would take him as a good will gesture for being bought from Russia years ago. He could talk to the animals as much as he would like, and a special staff of one hundred "Trump listeners" would be brought in each day to listen to his bull shit. I would have no trouble paying extra in my taxes so he could be permanently moved there, as long as Pence resigns and Pelosi takes over.. So that is the Stuart Plan..to deal with Mr. Trump.

[shadowmayor]

37. He could have his own private putt-putt course too!

[DavidDvorkin]

22. The border wall in San Antonio works so well that they don't even need it

Or maybe it's invisible.

[SansACause]

23. Remember the Alamo?

More of a question these days. How'd that wall work out at the Alamo?

[grantcart]

24. Lol he saw the movie the Alamo but forgot the ending lol

[pangaia]

25. LOLOLOL

[Paladin]

26. Is the moron talking about the San Antonio River Walk???

It's a huge tourist attraction, along the river which flows through downtown, not too far from the Alamo.

I know San Antonio very well---there's no "wall" for Orange Julius to make reference to.

[cannabis_flower]

27. Not that it excuses him but..

Do you think he might have confused San Antonio with a different Texas city. Does McAllen have a border wall? Or El Paso?

[WhiteTara]

28. He's talking about the Alamo like the whole

thing worked. Everybody died. What an moronic horrifying dictator.

[tclambert]

41. He forgot the Alamo.

Is there a bigger sin in Texas?

[WhiteTara]

48. Or maybe he is and this is

his revenge?

[gademocrat7]

29. The orange buffoon is despicable.

If his orange lips are moving he is lying.

[txwhitedove]

30. WTF? Is this how he gets around not having a SOTU?

And spouting about the "radical left". Asshole.

[sinkingfeeling]

31. When was San Antonio one of the most unsafe cities in the country?

[LeftInTX]

33. He doesn't make sense.............

Nothing he said makes sense

Now he'll probably insist on putting a wall here.


If he does, I won't have to convince anyone to vote Democratic in 2020.

[rdking647]

34. keep San antonio safe

keeping san antonio safe from the criminals in new braunfels

(new braunfels is a suburb of SA for those that ddont know)

[AwakeAtLast]

39. WAIT! Is he talking about THE ALAMO?!?

[hamsterjill]

42. I've lived in SA since 1982.

There is no wall you freaking orange moron.

[yardwork]

44. This is fine. /nt

[Bengus81]

46. Talking about a wall around the Alamo to keep Ozzie from pissing there??

That jumped SA from an unsafe city to a safe one!!!

[JDZ710A]

47. Humpty Dumbpty Don sat on his wall,

Humpty Dumpty Don sat on a wall,
and his White House crew cause Dumbty Don to take a great fall;
All the king's horses and all the king's men, and Moscow Mitch couldn't put Humpty together again.

[Maeve]

49. This seems like a repeat story, so I googled it and found this

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/01/trump-wrong-about-wall-effect-in-el-paso/

He's probably thinking of El Paso, but he's wrong there, too--they do have a fence, but it was never a dangerous city. And in the past he has ridiculed the fence, so....

There have been two pivotal changes in El Paso border enforcement over the last few decades, and neither lends itself to the president’s narrative. The first, in 1993, did not involve the erection of border wall, but rather a flood of border patrol agents along the immediate border.

The second was a border fence constructed as a result of the Secure Fence Act of 2006. But claiming that the construction of that fence transformed the city from one of the most dangerous in the country to one of the safest, as the president said, doesn’t hold up

[Gothmog]

50. The wall around the Alamo worked so well

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Yeehah]

51. The famous San Antonio Wall

A perfect place for emperor imbecile to give the state of the union address!