SPICER BLOWS UP AT A REPORTER FOR POINTING OUT THAT TRUMP’S WALL IS ACTUALLY A FENCE
It seems that White House press secretary Sean Spicer cannot make anyone happy—not journalists, liberals, or establishment Republicans, not to mention Jewish advocacy groups. Even Breitbart, the increasingly mainstream avatar of the movement formerly known as the alt-right, is upset with Spicer’s efforts to spin the Trump administration’s colossal border wall failure as a big, beautiful win for his nationalist-populist base.
During his daily press briefing on Wednesday, Spicer got into a heated back-and-forth with Breitbart’s White House correspondent, Charlie Spiering, after he asked whether the Trump administration had lied to the public when he promised to build a concrete wall along the southern border, only to downgrade his proposal to a series of fence-like boundaries. It was an issue gaining traction on Breitbart’s front page, where political editor Matthew Boyle had published a story the day before complaining about the porous-looking fences, and blasting the White House for seemingly caving to Democrats on last week’s negotiations over the budget, which ultimately did not include funding for the president’s wall.
“This is what exists right now throughout our country,” Spicer practically shouted, his face turning red as he fired up a slide show of current, insufficient-looking border fences. He then switched to a slide of the proposed walls that would be funded by the spending bill’s appropriations—which, Spiering pointed out, did not look like walls.
“Are those photos of fences or walls?” asked Spiering.
“There are various types of walls that can be built under the legislation that was just passed,” Spicer responded.
“That is a fence,” Spiering said.
“That is called a levee wall,” Spicer replied.
And thus commenced several minutes of Spicer and Spiering yelling at each other about fences versus walls, with Spiering at one point accusing Spicer of trying to sell the public on an “existing tough-guy fencing thing” instead of a real wall.
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At issue is the definition of whether a “levee wall” or a “bollard wall” is more of a fence than a wall. These alternative walls, the press secretary’s office had explained to Breitbart the day before, were not specifically meant to keep out people but would have the same effect. The levee wall, placed along the Rio Grande, would prevent flooding and illegal migration, said deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters. (Neither Walters nor Spicer explained what a “bollard wall” is, but it certainly sounds imposing.)
After the spat, neither Spiering nor the Breitbart appeared satisfied with Spicer’s answer. “Spicer refused to describe his fence photos as Trump’s promised wall to supporters but assured them that it would be effective in protecting the border,” Spiering reported, adding that Trump had specifically promised a concrete wall built with rebar and steel, and mocking the “little toy walls” currently lining the border.
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LOL Nice Fence Trump :lol:
Oh and the US Taxpayers are paying for it... NOT Mexico. :lol:
It seems that White House press secretary Sean Spicer cannot make anyone happy—not journalists, liberals, or establishment Republicans, not to mention Jewish advocacy groups. Even Breitbart, the increasingly mainstream avatar of the movement formerly known as the alt-right, is upset with Spicer’s efforts to spin the Trump administration’s colossal border wall failure as a big, beautiful win for his nationalist-populist base.
During his daily press briefing on Wednesday, Spicer got into a heated back-and-forth with Breitbart’s White House correspondent, Charlie Spiering, after he asked whether the Trump administration had lied to the public when he promised to build a concrete wall along the southern border, only to downgrade his proposal to a series of fence-like boundaries. It was an issue gaining traction on Breitbart’s front page, where political editor Matthew Boyle had published a story the day before complaining about the porous-looking fences, and blasting the White House for seemingly caving to Democrats on last week’s negotiations over the budget, which ultimately did not include funding for the president’s wall.
“This is what exists right now throughout our country,” Spicer practically shouted, his face turning red as he fired up a slide show of current, insufficient-looking border fences. He then switched to a slide of the proposed walls that would be funded by the spending bill’s appropriations—which, Spiering pointed out, did not look like walls.
“Are those photos of fences or walls?” asked Spiering.
“There are various types of walls that can be built under the legislation that was just passed,” Spicer responded.
“That is a fence,” Spiering said.
“That is called a levee wall,” Spicer replied.
And thus commenced several minutes of Spicer and Spiering yelling at each other about fences versus walls, with Spiering at one point accusing Spicer of trying to sell the public on an “existing tough-guy fencing thing” instead of a real wall.
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At issue is the definition of whether a “levee wall” or a “bollard wall” is more of a fence than a wall. These alternative walls, the press secretary’s office had explained to Breitbart the day before, were not specifically meant to keep out people but would have the same effect. The levee wall, placed along the Rio Grande, would prevent flooding and illegal migration, said deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters. (Neither Walters nor Spicer explained what a “bollard wall” is, but it certainly sounds imposing.)
After the spat, neither Spiering nor the Breitbart appeared satisfied with Spicer’s answer. “Spicer refused to describe his fence photos as Trump’s promised wall to supporters but assured them that it would be effective in protecting the border,” Spiering reported, adding that Trump had specifically promised a concrete wall built with rebar and steel, and mocking the “little toy walls” currently lining the border.
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LOL Nice Fence Trump :lol:
Oh and the US Taxpayers are paying for it... NOT Mexico. :lol:
