Television
Feb 12, 2019
A Wall of Hate and Fear

“The wall is kind of a metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency. The foundation of the wall is hate, it’s fear. And as you build his wall over the course of his political career, you build on that hate and that fear, and it becomes fear of the other, and then it becomes fear of brown people, and it becomes fear of caravans, and fear of invasions, and fear of MS-13. That’s the root of Trump’s presidential election and that’s going to be the root of his reelection campaign,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist discuss President Donald Trump’s much-promised border wall and the funding for it. Listen to more of the conversation here.