“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”
So said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during this year’s DNC, and it turns out she was being prophetic.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump changed his speech on immigration at the last minute to include references to Mexico paying for his proposed border wall.
The reason that Trump decided to make this change? Because he was apparently furious that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto just posted a tweet insisting that his country would never, under any circumstances, pay for the wall.
Full story here.
Siobhan says
Obviously the solution to the world Not Ending in the event of a Trump presidency is to have all the world leaders tweet at Trumpelthinskin and say “nuke me!”
Trump, in his childish defiance, will decide to deride them by not nuking them.
Genius.
Marcus Ranum says
Shiv@#1:
Be careful, Pence might realize that he could get someone to troll Trump into preparing a first strike, and then he’d get to take over because the president was incapacitated with mental health problems. Hey I just invented a conspiracy!
blf says
Not quite the same eejit (but it’s hard to tell them apart), but another stooopid comment along similar lines from about a week ago, Trump doesn’t need to apologize, says Republicans’ Hispanic outreach chief:
Loosely related, the New York Times slammed teh trum-prat rather hard in a recent editorial, The Immigrants Turned Away (my added emboldening):
I’m dithering over going to the nice Italian place next door for lunch, the new Pakistani / Indian place which just opened around the corner, or the local Mexican just a bit further on… at the moment, the Mexican (run by a lovely young couple) is winning, not only to spit on teh trum-prat & and his brownshirts, but because I haven’t been there for, um, about a week…