Mr. Trump, Tear Down This Wall
The president showed nearly as much disrespect for the White House as he did for the presidency itself.
by Jeffrey Goldberg
Nov 08, 2020
3 minutes
Do not say that Donald Trump failed to build his wall. He built it. But he built it in Washington, D.C., not along the southern border, and he built it to shield himself from his fellow citizens, not to shield his fellow citizens from the existential threat posed by Mexican job-seekers.
The White House today is hidden behind a welter of barricades, anti-scale fencing, bollards, and Jersey barriers. The tens of thousands of people who flooded
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