Netanyahu on wall: "A great idea"

"La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froide" (translation. "Revenge is a dish best served cold")  Pierre Choderlos,  Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1782.

President Obama is gone from power. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still here. The two men probably didn't like each other very much, but Bibi was simply following Obama's anti-Zionist lead.

On Saturday, Netanyahu expressed his clear support for our current President Trump's plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bibi, as his Israeli supporters fondly call him, said the barrier he had built along Israel's southern border "stopped all illegal immigration" and was a "great idea."

So sit on it, Obama.

President Trump signed executive orders on Wednesday to begin construction of a continuous "physical" wall, being one of the few leaders in history to make good on a campaign promise, which was to keep out illegal immigrants from Mexico, particularly "rapists" and drug dealers.

I think he also meant murderers and other felons, but people nowadays have shorter attention spans.

"Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders. We are going to save lives on both sides of the border," Trump said.

And while Mexico is still refusing to pay for the wall, while Trump said it would, he's still going ahead on the promise.

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto responded quickly Wednesday to Trump's declaration. He told his nation, in a national television address that he regrets and rejects Trump's decision, and he is canceling a meeting he was to have with Mr. Trump on Tuesday.

There are a number of cost projections for the wall that range from $8 million to $20 million. If I know government spending like I think I do, my guess is that a wall will cost around $35 million or more, just because it always almost doubles in price when the government is involved. 

But Trump's administration and leadership is no ordinary government. Who knows what price lurks in the heart of the project?  In any case, Congress is running around trying to come up with the money.

Trump also wants to hire another 5,000 border patrol agents and 10,000 more immigration officers. These increases must first be approved by Congress however.

Taking to Twitter, a la Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: "President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea."

The difference is, however, Israel paid for their wall, which was finished in 2013 after two years of construction.

But the actual West Bank barrier is not the same wall. That wall was built to end terror attacks and stem the flow of illegal immigrants from Africa coming through Egypt. They were mostly from Sudan, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and Nigeria. They came seeking asylum and employment.

Israel's walls work. Trump's walls should also work.


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Mexico Pres. will not meet with POTUS

Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled his plans to meet with President Trump in the aftermath of the latter's ongoing tweets demanding Mexico pay for a border wall. However, according to Mr. Trump, who spoke Thursday in Philadelphia, his first official visit and flight on Air Force One, it was he who decided to call off the meeting.

Is that an alternate reality? 

Maybe not--Trump said in an early Thursday message that Nieto should cancel the visit to Washington if Mexico refuses to pay for the wall he has ordered to be constructed along the border and which he sees as a major campaign promise that he needs to deliver.

Nieto fired his own salvo on Twitter after Trump again called for Mexico to pay for the wall. He received a ton of calls to cancel the meeting. 

Nieto said that Mexico doesn't believe in walls and this may be due to their willingness to allow their people to illegally enter the United States. A wall will put a damper on that.

"We have informed the White House that I will not attend the working meeting planned for next Tuesday with @POTUS," Nieto tweeted. "Mexico reiterates its willingness to work with the United States to reach agreements that favor both nations."

Relations with Mexico aren't at its best right now since Trump's campaign characterized Mexican migrants as murderers and rapists (although Trump admitted that "some" are good people).

Trump already signed the executive order for construction of the wall on the same day his aides spoke with Mexico's foreign minister.

After Nieto tweeted, the Mexican peso fell another 1 percent from an already deflated value.


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Trump crushes it while Hillary naps

Donald Trump did what is probably the smartest thing he's done so far in his campaign for the presidency: he was invited to Mexico and he tricked them--he went to Mexico and he sounded presidential. 

Hillary declined to go but jumped at the chance of attacking him. She looked angry and scared.

Trump said that he shared his concerns personally with President Enrique Pena Nieto about trade and illegal immigration. Trump called for changes in NAFTA and asserted the "right" to build a border wall.

Mexico President Pena Nieto invited both candidates to speak but only Trump was smart enough to see the opportunity to be presidential, while Clinton saw the opportunity to catch a nap.

"We had a very substantive, direct and constructive exchange of ideas," Trump said of the meeting.  "We did discuss the wall. We didn't discuss payment of the wall," he later added, and said that either country has a "right" to build such a barrier.

After they met, Nieto tweeted that he made it clear "that Mexico will not pay for the wall."

This was jumped on by the Hillary weasels, saying that Trump lied about not discussing the issue, but Mexican officials said that trump did not lie because he never responded to Nieto's statement so it never actually was discussed. 

Hillary lied today when she said to Bill, "Good morning."

One thing is certain, Trump looked and sounded presidential this time and when he went to Louisiana to give moral support to the flood victims. 

Both times Hillary Clinton was a no show--she missed those 3:00 a.m. phone calls.



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