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Actually, he's been unbelievably efficient. It took Trump exactly one day to beat the Mexicans. One. Day. Mexico and Trump were supposed to have a big trade meeting--America is Mexico's most important trade partner. But the president of Mexico had announced that he wouldn't pay for the wall. So Trump tweets that America has a horrible trade deficit with the Mexicans and if the Mexicans aren't willing to pay for the wall, it would be better for them to just cancel the meeting. That was this morning. A few hours later, Mexico cancelled the meeting.

A few hours later, Trump asked Congress to approve a 20% tariff on Mexican imports with which he will pay for the wall. This will (1) hurt Mexico's trade with America and (2) hurt American companies with factories in Mexico, causing them to pull back out of Mexico and back into America, creating massive unemployment. This threat will force Mexico to submit and pay for the wall so the tariff won't go through, and Trump won't ever even need it.
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That's great and all on paper, but that's not how it actually works. Not to mention that a wall is entirely useless, making it a huge waste of money, and this would hurt the average american's purchases since that'll raise the prices on everything coming from mexico, which is going to be sold here regardless and is going to be bought regardless.