something like that. you know, the system our founders left us with is one in which congress makes these calls, not the president. so that s number one. and then number two on kind of what does this say about the president, i mean, it is really remarkable that he s asserting this emergency power because i think if he asserts it i don t think there s any choice but for the democrats to begin impeachment proceedings, and i think indeed joined by a lot of republicans too at the end of the day. i m beginning to think maybe trump wants to be impeached. i mean, that s the only way to really make sense of what this is about because you re dealing with a president who has effectively no agenda left. his agenda is, as best i can tell, twitter and the wall. and the wall isn t working out for him. and this is a president who frankly acts like a snowflake. i mean, he s a guy who claims to be the victim all the time and an impeachment proceeding of course would allow him to make that cry even more.
mark my words. yes! yes! that was the paid audience that donald trump hired for his campaign announcement. so they weren t as enthusiastic. they didn t know that the wall was supposed to be a big cheer line. but you saw what happened to it during the campaign. it got cheers every time donald trump said it. and mexico will pay for the wall became a campaign chant, led by donald trump. that big lie, mexico will pay for the wall, was carried into the trump presidency, and it immediately became a problem for president trump in his first conversation as president with the president of mexico on the telephone. donald trump begged the president of mexico to stop saying mexico would not pay for the wall. and now donald trump himself is finally saying mexico will not pay for the wall. these are the moments that donald trump hates more than any others in his public life.
enough to talk to anyone during the commercial break because i m too worried about what happens after the commercial break. we could go on and on about this. but i guess i should do the show. do the show. thanks, lawrence. thanks, rachel. well, on this date, january 10th, 2019, the big lie of the trump presidency collapsed. and it collapsed in public. most big trump lies collapse instantaneously, the second donald trump says them, to people who are well informed enough to know it is a lie, people who can process the difference between truth and falsehood, fact and fiction. the big lie of the trump presidency was in donald trump s presidential campaign announcement, 3 1/2 years ago. i would build a great wall. and nobody builds walls better than me. believe me. and i build them very inexpensively. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border. and i will have mexico pay for that wall.
couldn t you just see how that felt for donald trump? that was one of those days for donald trump, when he had to do that. today was one of those days. so now the chants of mexico will pay for the wall will never be heard again. when during the campaign i would say mexico s going to pay for it, obviously i never said this and i never meant they re going to write out a check. and it only got worse from there. when your when i say mexico excuse me. when i say mexico s going to pay for the wall, do you think they re going to write a check for 20 billion or 10 billion or 5 billion or 2 cents? no. not even 2 cents. mexico s not going to pay 2 cents for the wall. that s not going to work as the
senators join in the protests around the country against the shutdown today and demand that those 9,000 texans be sent back to work immediately and get their paychecks immediately? did the two texas senators spend their day with some of those 9,000 texans whose families are being harmed by the trump shutdown? no. they re republican senators. the two texas republican senators spent their day in southern texas near the border with the president meeting with the republican president who has shut down the government and harmed those 9,000 texans, and they did not say one word about the texans who have been harmed by the trump shutdown. the president went to the southern border to try to convince democratic members of congress that there s an invasion at the southern border that can only be stopped with a wall. before he boarded his helicopter at the white house, the president wanted to clear up something about his negotiating style.