In short, because he is a giant man-baby incapable of thinking about anybody other than himself.

But hey, you knew that, and you came here for something with a little more meat on the bone.

Donald wants to build a wall, but there’s just one problem: Mexico ain’t gonna pay for it, and now he expects the American taxpayer to foot the bill.

Funny, I’m pretty sure he did say Mexico was definitely going to pay for it, didn’t he? Not like him to lie.

All of this brings us to the current US government shutdown, which has left around 800 000 federal workers without pay for almost three weeks.

The Guardian with his so-called reasoning:

Trump threatened to take extraordinary action to bypass Congress, where Democrats refuse to pass a spending bill that would give him $5.6bn to build his wall. New House speaker Nancy Pelosi has called the wall “an immorality” and refused to fund Trump’s signature campaign pledge.

By declaring a state of national emergency, the White House thinks it will be able to unlock money without congressional approval, although it has given no specific details of the move…

The 1976 National Emergencies Act grants a president powers to take unilateral acts in times of crisis. But it also outlines congressional checks and with Democrats controlling the House, an attempt to make such a move would be fiercely and legally contested, potentially pitching the US into constitutional crisis.

Leaving the White House for Camp David on Sunday, Trump claimed that many of the 800,000 federal staff either working without pay or told to stay at home “agree 100% with what I’m doing”.

Narrator’s voice – they did not agree with what he was doing.

Straight from the horse’s mouth:

Here’s one of Trump’s recent gems on Twitter:

I don’t even watch Game of Thrones and I know it’s about a wall that doesn’t work.

Also, enjoy Trump talking about a meeting with some really good-looking generals:

Donald Trump said his generals are “better looking than Tom Cruise, and stronger.” https://t.co/bNwdnW2LG5 pic.twitter.com/fDAf5OySli

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 3, 2019

Essentially, Donnie knows he’s going to look like a total knob if he fails on the wall front, and there’s nothing he hates more than a knock to his ego:

…as long ago as January 2017, a leaked transcript of a call with the Mexican president showed him saying he was in a “political bind, because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall – I have to. I’ve been talking about it for a two-year period.”

On NBC on Sunday, [acting White House chief of staff Mick] Mulvaney said of the switch to steel: “What’s driving this is the president’s desire to change the conditions at the border. And if he has to give up a concrete wall and replace it with a steel fence in order to do that, so that Democrats can say, ‘See, he’s not building a wall anymore,’ that should help us move forward.”

Yeah, not sure you’re going to dupe the Democrats that easily. They’re not the general American voting public.

Will 2019 be the year we see the Nazi naartjie being impeached? We live in hope.

[source:guardian]