By John Wagner John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow April 2 at 1:22 PM White House press secretary Sarah Sanders softened the White House’s threat to close the southern border by the end of the week, saying Tuesday that such a move was not President Trump’s “first choice” and that he does not have a “specific timeline.”
“He’s hoping that Mexico will continue to step up, like we’ve seen them do over the last couple of weeks,” Sanders said. “We hope that that continues, and that we can work with them so we don’t have to [close the border].” “The president has spent the last two years helping build up this economy and helping create the boom we have,” Sanders told reporters Tuesday. “He certainly doesn’t want to hurt that. But at the same time, his number one job as the president is to protect life and to protect Americans.”
“If they don’t stop them, we’re closing the border,” Trump said at an event in Florida later that afternoon. “We’ll close it. And we’ll keep it closed for a long time. I’m not playing games. Mexico has to stop it.”Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on ABC News’s “This Week” that it would take “something dramatic” to persuade the president to abandon his border-closing plans.
How would she know. He changes his mind from day today.
when is he going to make America great again, what time.
How this women sleeps at night amazes me and she also kisses her kids with that mouth. SHAMEFUL
Border Crisis.
“Next week” is not specific enough?
Walk back 500,000
Then he should shut up!
Do it now. Build the wall TermLimitsNow
She's still blowing smoke up tail pipes! Thought she got smart and retired!!
Lets face it: the guy doesn’t have a timeline for anything. He keeps on improvising following the « mood » of the day.
He has to be in the right mood
Build the wall, or close the border, we Texans are tired and fear we will be next to be killed, 5 out of 10 drivers at Texas coast do not have insurance or DI, HIT and Run Run
He is toying with you.
More threats and BS as usual
So just more hot air then......and lies....
No
Nothingburger
Some 'emergency.'
Translation: It Will NOT Happen. Dude get it together!!!
More tripe from the White House
So I guess it’ll happen tomorrow then?
Those red lines are shifty 🔥🤦♀️
Sarah. Last week Trump did next week he would close the border. Get your lies straight
Has DJT ever actually proposed a timeline of any kind for anything he wants to do? He seems to be allergic to timelines, whether it’s pulling out of Syria, replacing obamacare, now the border.
Some emergency.
So he’s just going to use it to threaten and intimidate. Got it.
🤮
Just more smoke & mirrors to distract Americans from the fact that the complete Mueller Report still has not been released.
Threat President!
Walk-back time!
Using my Donald Trump Trumpanzee Secret Decoder Ring, this translates as - How the Hell Should I Know?!!
I dare him to close the border, I hope he does it
In the meantime, can I get a security clearance please?
“Next week”
Although he does have specifics as to who with and where and what time he is playing golf this weekend. Priorities
That’s not what he said... literally
Trump never had a time line, using his threats trying to bully to get what he wants, just more of Trumps hateful rhetoric, trying to cause more chaos and division.
Meaning he was just “throwing it out there to see if it sticks.” Jerk.
Walking it back is a full time job for this crew I thought he was serious this time sounds like a folding paper tiger
Funny last week he had a definite timeline but realDonaldTrump has the 🚆of thought of a two year old
Translation: he spouted words & now the administration has to try to figure out what to do. “Clean up in aisle five”
DJT timeline is defined by where our focus is. Isn’t that correct PressSec ? ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport
Here's a nifty idea that I thought up just now: How about we have this ideology that in our Country, the Federal Government can make the Laws and each State must obey them. Just an idea? ...Sounds like a good fucking idea to me....Just sayin'...
We need a specific timeline to get this SOB out of the White House!
Threats are better theater for Trump than action. Remember when he did actually shutdown the government? Wasn’t good!
A six year old is sitting in front of the instrument panel of a 747. Doesn’t know how anything works or what any of the buttons or switches connect to. Use playing around and, oops, there goes a wing...oh, well, somebody will fix it!
Someone ought to flush this sh*t down the toilet!
Why is it increasing under Trump? It was at a,40 yr low under OBAMA. It has doubled under Trump. Like the deficit which he has doubled.
presidential Doofus blurts out 'gut Obamacare' and 'close the border'....then his own party has to talk him down to reversing both plans....as Bugs Bunny used to say....
She has no idea. Donald doesnt tell his staff anything. They find out just like the rest of us do. From his late night and early morning tweeter rants. This is the most incompetent administration in American history. Donald's staff have no idea what he will tweet next.
Im other words he just barks and bluffs.
So he’s talking bullshit, AGAIN 🤥
Just trash.
She says as she heads out to stock up on avocados.
Sounds like more bull**** to me
Close the border! Make Mexico deal with this crises!
Typical Sarah. 'Talk to the hand.'
🤦♂️Yuck🤦♂️
Instead of blaming Mexico & making us suffer & by shutting down boarder why doesn't Trump take his fat ass to Central America and find out why so many people are fleeing.oh yeah deplomacy..
What do you wanna bet it's right around the time the Mueller Report becomes public?
The only timeline trump knows is sleep off the mc Donald’s, watch Fox News, tweet some lies and mock people, go golfing, tweet with a spelling error, FaceTime Putin, look for rich accused sexual offenders to support ect.
Mark sometime between releasing the trump tax returns, Mexico paying for a wall, repealing and replacing the ACA, locking her up, announcing the infrastructure plan, solving the opioid crisis, bringing coal back and not colluding with Putin.
Have to wonder why he self-imposed a specific timeline then via Tweet.
That dolt has no specific timeline for anything 🤣 Election campaign: says he has a health care plan, won’t say what it is. Now: won’t come until after 2020 (why would that be... 🤔).
Because that's all it is...a threat. Big business would never allow it. It would seriously mess with the stock market.
Muck funnel of His Supreme Assholiness acknowledges another round of distraction and spittle.
He has no specific timeline on anything.
Broomhilda speaks.
Like most of The White House they have no idea of reality.
Go ahead, I dare realDonaldTrump to close the border. He won't do it, he's all talk.
Nor any specific ideas...on anything
For once I believe her. No, Individual-1 doesn't have a timeline; what's much more likely to happen is... 'What, I missed my put AGAIN? That's it, close the border!'
The time has come, I think, to admit that there is no real purpose to having this Press Sec; this is a colossal waste of our taxpayer dollars.
Once again Sarah Huck-a-bee out on the driveway to clean Don's mess. The setting allows for she, (and her boss) to shout answers, limit ?s and 'walk away' as if to another meeting. When this prexy shitshow wraps in Nov 2020, I think she will be the lasting visual DJT's term.
No specific plans, no specific policy, no specific ideas. Policy-by-tweet.Twittler
So... not an emergency, then
Wake me for the perp-walk.
Of course not. All talk. Hot air. Bluff.
Of course he doesnt. All.made up crap.PressSec
Trump doesn’t make timelines, just threats.
Why doesn't PressSec just admit trump has no idea what he's doing. There is no plan for anything. Just constant chaos.
As National Emergencies go this one just seems kind of slow.
Trump is going to want a photo op later this week when goes to the border to personally close the crossings!
What timeline - he said it before that he does not work from the logic, he works from the heart.
Trump has “not a fucking clue what he’s doing” on threatened border closure
He has no plan or timeline for anything
Make it after you roll out health care. In other words - never
He has to wait for Jared and Ivanka to get back from spring break on Acapulco!!!
I would be surprised if he knows what timeline is?
Can we trade her for avacados?
Empty threat from empty heads.
Hint... border closure will be really close to when House gets report, or subpoenas Barr or Mueller. 😉
In short, he wanted to do it right away but competent people told him it was impossible and incredibly stupid. That's what happens when a 4 y.o. tries to run the country.
he can enforce that in hist head when he is out of WH and becomes a retired senior.
He has no specific anything!
He’s winging it, he has no plan Putin is laughing
He will do it at whatever time is most inconvenient to everyone but himself.
All talk No action..
What Trump lacks is no 'specific timeline,' he lacks a plan. failure
The Bernie crowd is out to smear Biden. Don’t buy in to the smears! Joe2020
Yeah, extortion isn't as good if you provide a schedule.
That's because he knows it will immediately go to court, and the courts have not been kind to him.
Should there be a timeline?
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