President Trump today confirmed what had been rumored all week: when it comes to the border, he is willing to sacrifice the American economy to get his way.
“Those people keep coming. They’re so unhappy with the air conditioning in their countries. So unhappy. They come here to take our air conditioning. But enough is enough. If those countries, Guacamole, Uncle Salvador … and that other one named after Honda … if they don’t shut down their borders, well then I’ll just close ours.
That’s right, the border with Mexico will be closed. People who don’t know, people who don’t rise to my level of stupid, are saying that shutting the border will cause prices to rise in the US. That American car assembly lines will shut down, there will be no vegetables for Americans. But that’s like saying that burning coal changes the climate. Nice try, China!
I remember a chapter in a book I didn’t write called “The Art of the Deal”. My dad was in that chapter. He said, “Son, if you’re on a baseball team, and they won’t let you be the pitcher, then you just take all the equipment I bought them: the balls, the bats, the bases …. you take them home and build a wall around the baseball field. If you can’t be pitcher, then there is no team.”