Discussion: Before Nominating Shanahan, Trump Assailed Him For Lack Of Progress On Border Wall

Now I’m interested in the offer conditions.

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You mean to say that all people are props in Donnie’s world?? I am shocked…

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Shamanism got the nomination after showing Trumpp that new sections of the wall were in place and highly effective.

Trump even admonished him in one of the meetings for, what he sees as, the Pentagon’s lack of progress on building his border wall.

I know DoD funds are being robbed to pay for wall construction. And DoD personnel are being used for piecemeal repairs and reinforcements to existing sections of fencing and walls. But is the Pentagon actually tasked will building the new sections of wall? I assumed that would be let out to bid, just as the Transportation Dept. does when Federal highway projects are awarded. Does Trump think all the architects, engineers, construction workers, heavy equipment operators, lawyers, inspectors, etc are supplied from the ranks of the armed services? In addition to the thousands of trucks and heavy pieces of construction equipment that will be needed?
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Well since the man (Trump) hasn’t built anything in long time I guess he forgets how long it takes?

Couldn’t Boeing, I mean the Pentagon, just use 737 Max fuselages for Donnie’s Wall?

Win-win.

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Look in the mirror, Prez Biggest Loser. We worker bees have a name for the situation where we have to ignore stupid orders, which seems to be rampant in your staff: Toxic Boss Syndrome.

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Portends a long tenure… not so much.

Meanwhile - news that farm bankruptcies must have been covered on Fox this morning - because in response to the problems getting a new China trade deal … in pending imposition of new tarrifs - Trump suddenly declares this nonsense:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-10/trump-says-u-s-will-boost-crop-purchases-to-offset-china-losses?srnd=premium

I wonder if the farmer’s will believe it. Am guessing this “policy” (by tweet) is about as real as any QAnon theory.

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Oooooooh…getting yelled at even before you get the “real” job.

This one won’t last very many scaramuccis…

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One Friedman Unit, two at most.

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Un-Moored…

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OK, we lose a billion-person food market, so we compensate by spending our own money to buy food and giving it away. Genius! And then right before the election, the United States will get into selling steaks and bottled water and boy you can just stand back and watch the economy soar when that happens, you betcha.

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And the software to monitor the wall and issue safety alerts.

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and they could do double duty as makeshift cages for children separated from their parents!

Steak should be paired with a fine red wine, like the 2015 Trump Meritage that has been described as “Welch’s grape jelly with alcohol. A terrible, fumy, alcoholic nose. If I served you that on an airline you’d be mad.”

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These guys are pretty big names in the construction business.

Not sure why he even bothers to nominate Shanahan, acting secretary works well for trump and even better for Shanahan, and it’s like they care about rules and forms in this administration.

Imagine that a republican changing their views on someone or someones actions

Yes, but there is no reporting I can find the Army Corps of Engineers are assigned the job of building hundreds of miles of wall along the southern border. They have been assigned much shorter stretches of fence erection and repair, but not the erection of nearly a thouand miles of steel slat or concrete barrier wall as Trump proposes.

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