Trump said that Mexico would pay for his wall, but now he's threatening to shut down the government if AMERICA doesn't pay for it. How come?

Question

What happened to his campaign promise that Mexico would pay for it? Does he just promise things that he can't or won't do?




https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-border-wall-mexico-shut-down-government-democrats-congress-a8468621.html

Answer 1

I'm not paying for a stupid wall. Trump is outside his mind.

Answer 2

You got your facts wrong! He is posturing regarding americans paying. In reality, Mexico will pay one way or another and we will get that pound of brown!

Answer 3

TRUMP IS NOT GETTING HIS RIDICULOUS WALL! Trump has long been cast out of society because he has never had any idea at all how to interact/communicate/blend in with humans.



Trump honestly seems to be unaware that a dumb asss wall is NOT AT ALL A CHALLENGE FOR HOMOSAPIENS!! he talks about that dam wall like he had an epiphany. drug lords have already anticipated, drawn up, and sketched out 50 different ways to get around any type of wall he puts up! The great wall of China is beautiful, yet it was ultimately ineffective.



They were still invaded!

Have a dam back bone. If it was me, I wouldnt have GAF about what people said about me separating foreign invaders who wish to take food out of our babies mouths, to feed 5 of their own. Nobody enjoys that shyt, but it would have been. Stop caring about people talking about u. They talked about Jesus. A wall will not deter a human being. Use your brain.

Answer 4

that cannot happen

Answer 5

Because he's an idiot!

Answer 6

you are not that stupid so why act as if you are ....

Answer 7

I cannot stand Trump as I am anti-Trump but I will say that one way or another while he is in charge he will get his way one way or another.



Worse part here is that someway somehow it’s the American people that will end up having to pay for it or at least most of it in taxes. Part of this alone to say the least would mean that various local & state taxes would go really high up across the USA & allot of people on some things would have to tighten their belts & do without allot of things.

Answer 8

He still plans to technically make them pay for it, but in a different way than straight forking them the bill. He is planning to use trade agreements to generate more revenue from trading with mexico. And that is the extra funds that will be going toward his wall. At least from how i understand it. Also... did you actually read the article and check the tweet? The quotations around both with "shut down." The article is legit in what he tweeted, but they completely misrepresent just about every party they talk about in the article. It is obviously a charged article if you look at the language, and how it switches topics completely near the end. And the blatant misrrpresentation of facts and argument points of who the article writer sees as the "opposition".

Answer 9

Because he is a narcissistic conman and liar, and played his supporters for fools, which most of them are.

Answer 10

"Rome wasn't built in a day" & 'Border-Walls' aren't built any faster.

So,,What became of Obama's promise that everybody could keep the health-plan they liked & to shut down Gitmo?

Answer 11

King A, that is because the POTUS is a liar and a bully and the grown-up version of a spoiled brat. It's a fact; it's in all the media.

Answer 12

To frighten Mexico. That's how clear his thinking is.

Answer 13

He is a pathological liar.

Answer 14

The Brits will have brexit long before you ever see a wall.

Answer 15

He needs to finish it and send a bill. He is your President

Answer 16

Cons empty promises are more meaningful because they have a more arduous expression on their face when speaking

Answer 17

Source and if so is trump rump a moral man no

Answer 18

Mexico was NEVER going to pay for the wall. Only stupid conservatives were dumb enough to believe it. So instead of our tax money going towards things we need, like healthcare and education, it'll go to a wall, assuming they're dumb enough to approve it and build it

Answer 19

He is an idiot.

Answer 20

The reasons are

He knew that the promise was both meaningless and undeliverable when he made it

He does not care for the USA ,which is what I assume you meant when you said .

'America'

He only cares for his own self aggrandisement, and will grab the ***** of anybody thst thwarts that.

Answer 21

he lied Again are you really surprised?

Answer 22

You have a crazy president.

Answer 23

We should make his David Duke-loving supporters pay for it!

Answer 24

Cuz he's a spoiled brat & rather stupid.

Answer 25

loser

Answer 26

Mexico already made him look bad when it declined his gracious offer to pay for his wall. Now he's trying to salvage a piece of his face by making us pay for it so he can claim he built it.

If he wants the wall so bad, he needs to donate the first $50M, paint his brand on it for compensation and let the trumplings pay for the rest by buying bricks w/ their name on it. It was trump's idea and the trumplings bought it. They need to hold themselves accountable ... cough up the dough or shut up.

The wall is a bad idea because it won't be cost effective.

"Visa Overstays Outnumber Illegal Border Crossings, Trend Expected to Continue"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/visa-overstays-outnumber-illegal-border-crossings-trend-expected-continue-n730216

Trump planted the 'wall seed' at the beginning of his campaign because he had his sights set on getting the contract to build it. He didn't do any research about it's efficacy.

When will the trumplings learn, everything this man does/says is for his self aggrandizement?

Answer 27

Because one way or another he is saving the US and preventing it from becoming another failed latin country!

Answer 28

Because the Mexican president laughed and said No!

Answer 29

You can't block everything the President tries to do and then blame him for not getting anything done.

Answer 30

They will through tariffs, and the money we save by keeping their illegals out of our country.

Answer 31

http://www.insidesources.com/wall-wont-work/



I remember when I heard him say that he was building a wall and Mexico was going to pay for it and thought (why), since Mexico does not care how many Mexicans come into the US legally or illegally. Now if this was reversed and Mexico did not want US citizens coming into Mexico, then they would have a reason to pay for a wall.



The wall won’t hold back illegals from entering on visas, that overstep their welcome and don’t return. Nor does the wall stop planes flying into the US, like drug cartels.



Google why the wall won’t work and will find numerous reasons why it won’t and how illegals will find other ways to enter with or w/out a wall.

Answer 32

because he's a lying scumbag, crybaby basically.....if you really want the truth.



https://s.yimg.com/tr/i/963372ea28814043b370b68415347553_A.jpeg

Answer 33

idk

Answer 34

You have to be a ******* idiot if you actually believed you can MAKE another country pay for your countries work. Trump is a ******* idiot.

Answer 35

Trump said that Mexico ...what did he say unless I am convinced how do you expect me to reply????

Answer 36

Guy is full of ****

Answer 37

trump is going to get in the construction business

Answer 38

Like all politician he changes his mind a lot

Answer 39

Has he asked Putin for help? Since they both love separating children from their parents and causing so much pain for these families then maybe they should put some of their money towards what they think they want. Damn that wall.

Answer 40

Why doesn't Trump just ask for contributions from all his supporters, surely they would cough up a couple of hundred bucks a piece or whatever was needed!



Trouble is in places like Texas, the silly bastards use illegal labor all the time, in fact they can't do without it!!!



THIS was his signature promise, the foundation stone and talking point upon his entry into the presidential race, the main rallying cry of his knuckle dragging supporters at every single event he held!!!



And look at them now, making every excuse under the sun to try and cover his sorry ***! Truly pathetic!!!

Answer 41

He is a populist.

Answer 42

Trump is a dictator

Answer 43

Never come...

Answer 44

Because he is being stonewalled by judges over stepping their boundries. Build that wall. DEPORT. SEPARATE CHILDREN STOP THE LOOPHOLES. ITS all the DEMORATS PLOY> TIME TO CRUSH THEM AND SAVE THE COUNTRY!

Answer 45

Were you one of those gullible people who believed Trump could make the Mexicans pay for that wall. It was one of his ridiculous promises no sensible person would ever believed he could do. The rest of the world laughed when he said that but so many Americans believed the American President can boss other countries around. Trump obviously believed the rest of the world was scared of American and that the president of America could order the rest of the world around. As soon as he got in power he phoned the Australian Prime Minister and started barking orders to which he was basically told to stick his orders up his @ss. He tried it with other countries who gave him a similar answer including Mexico when he demanded they pay for the wall. Americans have this belief they are so powerful and important in the world but forget there are 7 billion people in the world and the US is only 325 million of them and most of them don't think the USA is a nation of big heads who believe their own propaganda.

The simple answer would have been to put huge fines on any American employer or even mandatory prison terms on any person who knowingly employs a foreigner who does not have the right to work in the USA and make Americans too scared to employ illegal workers. If the Mexicans could not find a person game to risk the punishment and employ them soon the Mexicans would stop coming as there would be no work for them. America always seems to find the expensive way to fix problems when the answer is so easy.

Answer 46

Politicians lie all the time

Answer 47

We can never truly know what goes on inside that man's head.

Answer 48

Mexico will pay.

Answer 49

He HATES America and wants it ruined.

He wants all government jobs taken away, and he only cares about himself

Answer 50

He lied, and that surprises you?

Answer 51

He lied...as usual.



What surprises you about that?

Answer 52

Wow for people who don't want Open Borders, there are alot of liberals who are real angry about this wall being built. LMAOOOOOOO I wonder why they are so angry? Oh yea, because they want the US to turn into an unruly Mexico and they want the votes for their party.

Answer 53

Now that's not right.

Answer 54

Why does it matter to you! It's not your wall anyway!

Answer 55

Because he's an idiot and a liar.

Answer 56

Maybe he just forgot?

Answer 57

He meant his good friend Ron Mexico

Answer 58

Did you really THINK Mexico was going to write us a check up front?

Answer 59

His mind is deteriorating

as this video explains well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfnV4B7Fk7Y

Answer 60

Trump is hilarious

Answer 61

Vincente Fox said I’m not going to pay for your * wall.

Answer 62

From the Great Wall in China, to Hadrian's Wall in England, to the Berlin Wall in Germany, people who wanted to badly enough could always find ways under, over, around, or through every wall built to try to keep them out.



It would be a great big boondoggle project, do a lot of damage to the ecology along the Rio Grande and the rest of the border, and totally fail to accomplish its purpose. Even if armed guards were stationed every fifty feet along that wall, it would simply mean that little boats carrying illegals would be landing every night along the Pacific, Gulf, and Atlantic coasts.



Give it up, Mr. President. Candidly admit that it was probably an ill-considered idea in the first place, and concentrate on some other ways to cope with the tide of illegal immigrants into the United States.

Answer 63

Because when Mexico says no, they'll have to get them to pay in subtle ways.

Answer 64

In a nutshell, he is a mentally unbalanced,everything that comes out of his Trumpet is pure hate,and it is not a healthy situation him being a world leader. The sooner he is out of the picture, 'one way or another' the rest of the world can breath a sigh of relief., having avoided World War three

Answer 65

Why can't we build a wall to keep Trump and ALL Republicans out of America???

Answer 66

Fake news

Answer 67

Anyone who thought Mexico would actually pay for the wall is crazy. Trump just used that to het elected.

Answer 68

He's doing it to force congress to do their job

Answer 69

Like all spoiled brats, when he doesn't get his way, Trump throws a temper tantrum.

Answer 70

They are going to pay us after we build it.

over 50 billion a year goes from illegals in the US to Mexico alone. Cut that by 20% and the wall take 10 billion a year out of Mexico's pockets.

Then take the 10s of billions of aid that we send them every year and start cutting that.



With money flowing back and forth across the border then in does not matter if we bill them or just deduct it from their US recievables. They will pay in the end.

Answer 71

No

Answer 72

Idk he’s all over the place

Answer 73

No comments

Answer 74

ok

Answer 75

Unlike wimpy Republicans Trump has some balls and is willing to do it.

Why no the Press ALWAYS blames Republicans for shutdowns anyways.

Answer 76

the wall will cost billions of dollars; with that kind of money, we could hire 200,000 INS, ICE, and Border-Patrol agents, to work with homeland security, to keep the illegal migration numbers down. this might stop some of the import-export cargo theft, too; also smuggling. that will surely reduce the unemployment numbers.

Answer 77

Mexico is paying,but not enough to get the wall built as quickly as necessary.Trump was elected to undo Obamas failed immigration system and he is doing it.

Answer 78

He was unable to get Mexico to pay for the wall. So now you have to pay for it.

Answer 79

Because Trump uses a lot of exaggerations aka truthful hyperbole in order to rile up his audiences. Most politicians of both parties don't achieve most of what they promise. It's just hot air to win votes and support.

Answer 80

Because he’s a liar. He can’t make Mexico pay for the wall. But his stupid supporters believed he could anyway and likely still do.

Answer 81

1. Mexico President stated they would not pay for the wall

2. Trump had no way or authority to make Mexico pay for anything

3. He is a liar and so he lied during the campaign.

Answer 82

TRUMP

Answer 83

Because he's a politician

Politicians always lie

Answer 84

Let Trump voters pay for the wall. Forget the ~320,000,000 people in the country. Just charge Trump voters for it. 22 Billion dollars divided by 62,984,825 voters = $349 per Voter. I would write the check today if the White House would open a"Build the Wall" fund.

Answer 85

he is acting like a petulant schoolboy

Answer 86

EVERY POLITICIAN MAKES A FEW PROMISES THEY CANNOT KEEP!

Answer 87

libtards, he first needs funding and once its built and it will be built...MEXICO will start paying for it (tariffs). WILL YOU HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE and quit twisting the truth...everyone sees right through it even though you libtards think we are listening and believing your crap!

Answer 88

Trump is all mouth with little substance.



Who cares what he says?

Answer 89

Hasn't anyone sussed it out yet? Trump only opens his mouth to change feet.

Answer 90

Let him cry. It won't get his wall started.

Answer 91

Yes

Answer 92

tell lord lestermount