“‘Shoot Them in the Legs,’ Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War”

“The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House advisers listened astonished, he ordered them to shut down the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico — by noon the next day.”

“Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.”

“You are making me look like an idiot!” Mr. Trump shouted, adding in a profanity.

4 thoughts on ““‘Shoot Them in the Legs,’ Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War”

  1. To my knowledge, Trump has never demonstrated any wit or sense of humor (unless you count insulting people as humor), but every time he says something utterly stupid, his apologists say he was only kidding.

  2. They do it , the Gent, because the only sense of humor Trump has ever demonstrated consists of mocking people. Otherwise, he gives every evidence of meaning whatever he says at the moment he says it. Many Trump supporters pretend he is joking, because they pretty much have to, don’t they? I get the biggest kick out of that.

    (PS – The quarter is a lie!)

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