What could give the deplorables a happier Thanksgiving than knowing that Donald Trump is the President? How about knowing that he has once again taken steps that will simultaneously keep us safe and trigger liberals around the nation. That’s the unexpected Thanksgiving gift that we received today in the form of a famous @realDonaldTrump tweet.
The Commander-in-Chief might be away from the White House to celebrate the holiday, but he’s keeping people on their toes by telling his plans on Twitter. Today’s joyous announcement has to do with our southern border and his determination to build that wall. The Hill reports that not only is the President working toward a better border, the confidence that he inspires has helped the economy as well:
“President Trump wished his Twitter followers a Happy Thanksgiving early Thursday morning, touting the strong performance of the nation’s stock market and vowing to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
“HAPPY THANKSGIVING, your Country is starting to do really well. Jobs coming back, highest Stock Market EVER, Military getting really strong, we will build the WALL, V.A. taking care of our Vets, great Supreme Court Justice, RECORD CUT IN REGS, lowest unemployment in 17 years….!”
Last month employers added 261,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1 percent, the lowest level since December of 2000 when it was 3.9 percent, the Labor Department reported on Friday.
Trump and his aides have frequently taken credit for the stock boom, a rare step for administrations wary of tying themselves to any unforeseen market downturn.
Trump has recently reiterated his calls to build a wall along the country’s southern border after a U.S. Border Patrol agent died from injuries he sustained on patrol in Texas.
“We will seek out and bring to justice those responsible. We will, and must, build the Wall!” Trump said earlier this week.
Building a wall along the country’s southern border was one of the president’s key campaign promises. He often reiterates his call for border security.”
Building a border wall was one of the President’s more controversial policies among the left. For some reason, the left seems to be under the impression that no matter how many immigrants we bring in, we will be able to feed, house and medically cover all of them, if the mean old conservatives will just let them come be free. Those of us who paid attention in 5th-grade math, or even just know how to use the calculator on our phones have been crunching the numbers and we’re pretty sure that’s not going to work.
Math notwithstanding, enforcing the laws Congress has already passed about how someone can enter the country is still highly unpopular and people are willing to go to great lengths to demonstrate that. According to a USA Today story, one activist group went so far as to go to Mexico just so they could display a light show on the border wall prototypes. I think it’s safe to say that they’re triggered:
Jill Marie Holslin and an activist group called the Overpass Light Brigade stood on their trucks in Tijuana, Mexico, on Saturday, projecting their protest onto segments of the wall they opposed. They covered the prototypes with white light: the Statue of Liberty, a lucha libre mask, a ladder that stretched to the top of the wall.
“The federal government has this very inflated idea of its power, of the massive power of these prototypes, the massive power of this border wall to supposedly seal the border,” Holslin said. “We wanted to deflate that in a humorous way.”
Holslin, an American artist, and professor who lives in Tijuana, spends her days exploring the landscapes of Baja California. She fills her website with photos of Tijuana’s urban art and growing culture, trying to push the city’s reputation away from its lecherous past.
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