Trump shops at wall mart
President Trump on Tuesday made his first trip to California since taking office so he could eyeball eight prototypes of his long-sought border wall with Mexico and push his fight against sanctuary cities and states.
The president spent an hour in San Diego near the border speaking with Customs and Border Protection officials while praising some prototypes and criticizing others.
“You have to have seethrough. You have to know what’s on the other side of the wall. You could be two feet away from a criminal cartel and don’t even know they’re there,” Trump said.
“They have the cartels, [we’re] fighting the cartels. Nobody ever fought them like we fight them. We fight them hard.”
He defended his call for a wall amid nearby pro- tests on both sides of the border — and a handful of pro-Trump demonstrators on the US side.
“If you didn’t have walls over here you wouldn’t even have a country. The state of California is begging us to build walls in certain areas. People are complaining. People are pouring in, [critics] don’t talk about that,” Trump said.
He also took a shot at California Gov. Jerry Brown, who after the federal government filed suit last week over the state’s immigration laws, taunted that special counsel Robert Mueller was “closing in” on the president’s inner circle.
“I think Governor Brown does a very poor job running California. They have the highest taxes in the United States. The place is totally out of control. You have sanctuary cities where you have criminals living in the sanctuary cities,” Trump said.