What does this mean for the border wall?

I really wish that we didn't have to take Donald Trump seriously. The New York Times probably never thought that it would have to take Trump's musings on a wall between the US and Mexico seriously either but here we are.
A. By the way, if you want to know if a wall works, just ask Israel. Israel built a wall and it works.
Q. And they heave rockets over it.
A. Yeah, I know. Well, no. Now they’re doing the rockets, yeah. That’s a — they have a — they have a different — they probably have a bigger — they have a different kind of a problem. You have to build a real wall. They don’t have a real wall right now. They don’t have a wall that works.
Did you get that?
1. There’s a wall in Israel and it works.
2. But it doesn’t work.
If you are confused, it’s probably your fault, because you are not Donald Trump, master builder, president of the United States and source of the quotation above, from an interview with The Times’s editorial board before the election.
Mr. Trump has always said stuff like this, things that are self-contradictory or untrue or breathtakingly mindless. It didn’t matter so much back when he was just a rich guy who liked to share his opinions with the world the way some people talk at the TV.
I have no idea what President Trump is going to do. Nearly three months into his term, the President has done total reversals on several issues. He was going to repeal and replace Obamacare with a health care system that would insure more people, provide better services to all, and come at a lower cost. After learning that health care was pretty complicated, he supported an awful alternative. Once that failed, he seemed to have given up. But now Republicans are trying to resurrect a new plan.

Syria is another recent example. We've all see his Tweets and campaign statements advocating that the US stay on the sidelines in Syria. It's America First. That didn't last very long. And now we are left wondering whether last week's attack against Syria was a move to enforce a ban on chemical weapons, a signal to Assad not to target women and children, a shift in US policy towards removing Assad from power, or simply an attack to satisfy domestic audiences.

What does this mean for the border wall? I still have no idea. It's clear that the President never thought through some of the challenges presented by actually building a big, beautiful wall along the southern border. You can read the New York Times editorial for some of those challenges.

Once he learns how difficult it is, he might simply give up - a la health care. On the other hand, once he understands how difficult constructing his ideal wall is, he might simply add a few miles of new wall, reinforce existing structures, and hire another 1,000 unqualified agents. Even though nothing will really change, he'll claim a great victory, the greatest victory known to man, while throwing his predecessor under the bus - a la Syria.

My guess is scenario number two, the greatest victory known to man.


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