Just now, from our national embarrassment, President Donald J. Tump. A typically rambling, halting, dissembling, dishonest, xenophobic rant… (meticulously transcribed)
“…I’ll say it very straight. Immigration, is the fault, and all of the problems that we’re having, because we cannot get them to sign legislation. We cannot get them even to the negotiating, table. And I say it’s very strongly, the Democrats, fault. Their obstruction, they’re really obstructionists. And they are obstructing. The United States will not be, a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility. It won’t be. You look at what’s happening in Europe you look at what’s happening in other places we cannot allow that to happen to the United States, not on my watch. For the rest of the world you look at, everything that’s taking place, pick up your newspapers this morning, and you see. We want safety and we want, security for our country. If the Democrats would sit down instead of obstructing we could have something done, very quickly. Good for the children. Good for the country. Good for the world. It could take place, quickly. We could have an immigration bill, we could have child separation we’re stuck with these horrible laws. They’re horrible laws. What’s happening is so sad. It’s so sad. And it can be taken care of, quickly, beautifully, and we’ll have safety. This could, really, be something very special. It could be something maybe even for the world to watch just like they’re watching our great economy how it’s soaring, they could watch this, we have the worst immigration laws in the entire world. Nobody has such sad, such bad, and actually in many cases, such horrible and tough you see about child separation you see what’s going on there. But just remember, a country without borders is not a country at all. We need borders, we need security, we need safety we have to take care of our people. You take a look at the death, and destruction that’s been caused by people coming into this country, without going through a process. We want a merit based immigration system. So that Boeing and Lockheed and all of the people. Grumman. All of the people that are here today the heads of every company. So that you can hire people on a merit base you know they’re coming in, they’re people that came on merit, not based on a lottery or not people that snuck across the border, and they can be murderers, and thieves, and so much else. So we want a safe, country, and it starts with the borders. And that’s the way it is.”