Trump has been promising a big, beautiful wall for years now, but even after declaring a national emergency, there still isn’t a single section of new wall to show for it. Instead, all that has happened is that existing fences and other barriers have been beefed up or replaced.
In total, the administration has thus far only repaired or replaced 60 miles of the border barrier. Even conservative news outlets like the Washington Examiner, usually a reliable cheerleader for Trump, have admitted that there’s no new wall. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency also confirmed the complete failure to get any new wall built.
That isn’t stopping Trump from celebrating his own achievements. Earlier this year, Trump spent taxpayer dollars to visit a plaque commemorating “completion of the first section of President Trump’s border wall.” That section was just a refurb as well.
View the complete August 26 article by Lisa Needham on the National Memo website here.