The Daily Beast reports:
President Trump unleashed a bizarre Twitter rant late Saturday over a proposal for New York City that he mocked as “foolish” and “costly”: plans to build a six-mile-long wall.
The president, who has had no qualms using billions in military funds to build his own border wall, seemed almost personally offended by a New York Times report that the Army Corps of Engineers has proposed building a $119 billion “sea wall” around New York City to protect it from natural disasters.
A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won’t work anyway. It will also look terrible. Sorry, you’ll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2020
Trump asking New Yorkers to get their mops and buckets ready is just like how he asked Californians to rake their forests in the wake of devastating wildfires. It’s a modern version of Marie Antoinette asking starving peasants to eat cake. Trump is golfing while the world burns.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) January 18, 2020
Wherein the president of the United States is rooting for “rare storms” exacerbated by climate change to pummel New York City and suggests a solution of “mops & buckets.”
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) January 18, 2020
Wherein the president of the United States is rooting for “rare storms” exacerbated by climate change to pummel New York City and suggests a solution of “mops & buckets.”
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) January 18, 2020