Trump Walks Back Threat To Close U.S. Border, Giving Mexico A '1-Year Warning'

[Dulcinea]

President Trump is backing down from his threat to shut down the U.S. Southern border as soon as this week.

Trump had issued the warning in a bid to curtail surging border crossings by asylum seekers from Central America.

Instead, Trump is now giving Mexico "a one-year warning" to address his concerns about its handling of immigrants traveling through the country on the way to the United States. He also demanded that Mexico tamp down on the flow of drugs.

If the Mexican government doesn't respond in a manner acceptable to Trump within 12 months, he says, he will take action.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709933534/trump-walks-back-threat-to-close-u-s-border-giving-mexico-a-1-year-warning

[Freethinker65]

1. So not a National Emergency?

[htuttle]

5. Seems like it

[Aristus]

2. Trump then turns back to the shaving mirror and says:

"One year! You hear me, Mexico? One year! And another thing..."

What a wimp...

[C_U_L8R]

3. Choke.

Trump is such a fuckup.

[htuttle]

4. I was taught not to make threats that I wasn't prepared to carry out

This is the sort of stuff makes him look stupid and weak.

He choked. Again.

He's a grade school bully that never had to grow up or learn any better, since his dad always bailed him out.

[Sherman A1]

6. Anytime his lips are moving

he is lying.