Kelly Vs. Trump
Think of it as the Super Bowl of Insane Foreign Policy.
John Kelly told reporters that Trump’s statements on the wall during the campaign were “uninformed.”
Trump replied with “Who you callin’ uninformed, Dopey?”
I dunno. If a wall has gaping holes in it, it isn’t exactly a wall – it’s more like … I dunno, playground equipment.
I’m not jumping on the He’s Uninformed bandwagon, but doesn’t Trump know there is “water” along the entire Texas, Mexico border. The border is a river.
So anyway, these two guys are spatting over who gets to pretend to be president and that doesn’t do much for my confidence in anything going right for the next three years.
By the way, Trump says that Mexico will pay for the wall. He tweets —
The Wall will be paid for, directly or indirectly, or through longer term reimbursement, by Mexico, which has a ridiculous $71 billion dollar trade surplus with the U.S.
Okay, so here’s the deal: since Trump plowed under Michelle Obama’s White House garden …
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mexico is the biggest exporter of fresh produce to the U.S. by far, responsible for nearly 70 percent of our vegetable imports and almost 40 percent of fruit imports.
And, to be honest, the rest of our fruit and vegetables grown here are being picked by undocumented workers.
So America just might as well hire Trump’s doctor, the guy who will keep you fit and trim on a fast food diet, because you ain’t getting no damn fruits and vegetables. We have to buy a wall with gaping holes in it instead.
How soon do you suppose Gen. Kelly will be shown the door for upstaging the big guy? Will he have to be escorted from the building like Omarosa?
1Just a small correction: Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden thrives still. In September FLOTUS invited a bunch of kids to help harvest and replant it.
2Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird to refer to parts of the wall as see-through?
3See through…kind of like an aquarium wall where you can watch but never touch the inhabitants of the other side.
4If he were smarter, he could point in the general direction of Mexico and claim the wall is completed, and it is ALL “see-thru”. ( what most adults call “transparent”…)
5@Maggie, LOLOL! The Emperor’s New Wall!
6TexasTrailerParkTrash:
If Kelly gets shown the door, perhaps he’ll join the Bannon Choir at Mueller’s office. I think Kelly knows what’s going down.
7@Maggie O’Neill
RE: “see-thru”
There you go bringing up porn movie stars again. 🙂
Walls. Think pre-WW-II “walls” like the Maginot Line, a series of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany. And then it worked so well.
And of John Knowles thought on walls and fortifications and obstacles,
8“All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines
against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that
way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.”
Parts will be, of necessity, see through…”
Yes, I’ve seen designs for those parts, some include bars with spaces that are pass through too. Hopefully wide enough for tomatoes, peppers, avocados, etc to fit through one way, and dollars to slide through in the other direction.
Not everyone thinks McDonald’s menu items provide a healthy diet, or can plausibly keep your weight at 239 pounds. Like Jack Benny’s age, but in lard. Plus 200.
9Not spending much time watching television box I’m at a loss with Trump. Never sure which faces the statement comes from or which side of his mouth it’s uddered. Only know there is a better than 50-50 chance that it lacks the whole truth. Strike the word “whole”.
10Never intended to be built where there are mountains, wastelands, water….
There’s a chain-link fence on the other side of town that’s high and has bobwire at the top, but it also, in several places, has an official gap in it to make room for a bush. I don’t know what the fence cost, but if it’s $X, it was $X too much.
(Does anybody else say “bobwire”? I know it’s really “barbwire,” but that’s what I grew up hearing from VA family.)
11@Rhea
My grandmother’s family was from Ohio and moved to Washington state in 1906, I always heard her say “bobwire” too!
12The only reference I had for “barbwire” was when reading Zane Gray books as a young kid.( THAT really dates me, eh?)
Rhea–I grew up in central Texas and I don’t think I registered “barbed wire” until well into adulthood. “Bobwire” (all one word) was it for me until then.
13Rhea–My ex-husband’s uncle was from Texas (I’m from California originally) and he always said “bobwhar.”
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