Forget the swamp, Trump digging moat around himself

Forget that drain-the-swamp nonsense. Now President Trump wants to fill the moat.

Over at the failing New York Times, Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis composed one of the most delightfully revealing paragraphs of the Trump era:

“Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.”

I picture Trump explaining to baffled aides how migrants, bleeding from gunshot wounds to their legs, could still crawl across the border, as if they weren’t impoverished humans but the first wave of the Zombie Apocalypse. I picture, too, the unlucky procurement officer, tasked with producing the moat’s “cost estimate,” calling reptile farms for bulk pricing on alligators and water moccasins:

“Do your alligators eat migrants?”

“Errr. I’m not sure I … “

“Never mind. We’ll take 1 million.”

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