President Donald Trump was up early Saturday morning, and he was busy on Twitter, posting absurd claims about why the majority of Americans don’t want to see his long-promised border wall built:
Great support coming from all sides for Border Security (including Wall) on our very dangerous Southern Border. Teams negotiating this weekend! Washington Post and NBC reporting of events, including Fake sources, has been very inaccurate (to put it mildly)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time. All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall), something which everyone, other than drug dealers, human traffickers and criminals, want very badly! This would be so easy to do!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
But the fact remains that a majority of those polled say they don’t want a wall on the Southern border. A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released in late December showed that 56 percent of those surveyed said they don’t want to build a wall, while 44 percent said they did support such a plan.
Even the idea of a so-called security barrier (metal slats, as Trump refers to them) failed to garner majority support in the Harvard poll, with 54 percent opposing and 46 in favor.
That same poll also suggests that Trump’s willingness to shutter the federal government with a shutdown is not popular with voters. Fully 60 percent said they’re opposed to using a shutdown to extort money for the wall.
And the reaction on Twitter to Trump’s whining was also decidedly against the president:
Fake News Not Reporting Invisible Wall pic.twitter.com/Jt4fD1A5kp
— ? (@takingpitches) January 5, 2019
Stop lying and we don’t support your wall. Why don’t you explain giving raises to cabinet-level employees, but freezing cost-of-living adjustment to rank-and-file employees (on top of your ill-advised shutdown).
— Gene Vorobyov (@GeneVorobyov) January 5, 2019
They are just reporting what is actually happening in real life not what is going on in your mind.
— Barbara Parker (@barbspt2002) January 5, 2019
They are just reporting what is actually happening in real life not what is going on in your mind.
— Barbara Parker (@barbspt2002) January 5, 2019
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