There may be a winner for the “full-on bizarre” award. (via latimesopinion)
by two New York Times reporters, the president’s paroxysms over illegal immigration led him to suggest a deep water-filled ditch along the border and stock it with snakes or alligators to, presumably, poison or eat migrants.
Was he serious? Apparently his aides thought so, because they scrambled to put together a cost estimate. And the report also elicited a predictable response from the easily riled president. “Now the press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moat stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Southern Border,”Wednesday morning. “I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy.
The temptation is to giggle, but the stakes here are too high, and the underlying issues too serious, to dispel with laughs and social media memes. Wein Trump’s 2016 campaign that he was temperamentally unfit to serve as president, and he has continued to prove us right. He’s thin-skinned, intellectually incurious, unmoored from fact and science, and incapable of seeing anything beyond the fight before him .
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