It’s difficult to say whether Trump believes his rhetoric, but either way, his boasts about what troops will do at the border shouldn’t be taken at face value.<\/b>
\nDonald Trump sat down with Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham this week and, not surprisingly, the president was eager to focus on immigration. He bragged about having \u201ccalled up the military\u201d to block Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
It led to an interesting exchange:
The first part of the president\u2019s answer was completely bizarre. We already know, for example, that many of the troops currently at the U. S.\/Mexico border are, in fact, members of the National Guard. That was true when other recent president\u2019s made deployments, and it\u2019s true now.
But even putting that aside, Trump seemed to draw a distinction between the National Guard and the military. Told that his predecessors dispatched the Guard to the border, this president said, \u201cI\u2019m sending up the military. This is the military.\u201d
Right, but the National Guard is part of the military, too. Given his on-air remarks, it wasn\u2019t clear that Republican understood this rather basic detail.
As for Trump\u2019s boasts about what the military will do under the current policy \u2013 I use the term \u201cpolicy\u201d loosely \u2013 the Washington Post \u2019s fact-check described the president\u2019s rhetoric as \u201cmisleading.\u201d
It\u2019s difficult to say whether Trump believes his own rhetoric, but either way, his chest-thumping about what troops will do at the border should not be taken at face value.<\/p>\n

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