{"id":91994,"date":"2019-10-25T18:56:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-border-wall-for-colorado-residents-react-to-president-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T18:56:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:56:45","slug":"a-border-wall-for-colorado-residents-react-to-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-border-wall-for-colorado-residents-react-to-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"A border wall for Colorado? Residents react to President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"President
President Donald Trump said his border wall will run through Colorado. People had fun with the gaffe on social media, including this illustration included in a retweet by Sen. Patrick Leahy.<\/span>Courtesy of Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The news came as a shock to residents in Southwest Colorado when President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he\u2019s building a \u201cbeautiful\u201d border wall in Colorado.<\/p>\n

Well, not really.<\/p>\n

During a speech at the Shale Insight Conference on Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Trump boasted about the border wall he wants between the U.S. and Mexico when he mentioned the Centennial State, which is more than 500 miles from Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know why we\u2019re going to win New Mexico? Because they want safety on their border. And they didn\u2019t have it. And we\u2019re building a wall on the border of New Mexico, and we\u2019re building a wall in Colorado. We\u2019re building a beautiful wall, a big one that really works, that you can\u2019t get over, you can\u2019t get under. And we\u2019re building a wall in Texas. And we\u2019re not building a wall in Kansas, but they get the benefit of the walls that we just mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump later tweeted that he made the comment \u201ckiddingly,\u201d and he was trying to say people in Colorado and Kansas will benefit from the border wall.<\/p>\n

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis had some fun with the gaffe when he wrote on Facebook:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell this is awkward \u2026 Colorado doesn\u2019t border Mexico. Good thing Colorado now offers free full-day kindergarten so our kids can learn basic geography.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump is hardly the first politician to make a gaffe.<\/p>\n

President Ronald Reagan said, \u201cWe begin bombing in five minutes,\u201d while joking with reporters before a radio address in 1984 during the \u201csecond Cold War.\u201d The comment was not broadcast live, but it was recorded and later leaked to the public.<\/p>\n

Vice President Dan Quayle told a student to spell \u201cpotato\u201d with an \u201ce\u201d on the end during a mock spelling bee<\/a> in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

And presidential candidate Barack Obama told a crowd in May 2008 that he had been to 57 states in the U.S. \u2013 and had one to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is just wonderful to be back in Oregon, and over the last 15 months, we\u2019ve traveled to every corner of the United States,\u201d Obama said. \u201cI\u2019ve now been in fifty \u2026 seven states? I think one left to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"President
President Donald Trump said his border wall will run through Colorado. People had fun with the gaffe on social media, including this illustration included in a retweet by Sen. Patrick Leahy.<\/span>Adobe Stock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Here\u2019s what residents had to say Thursday about Trump\u2019s plan to build a border wall in Colorado:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll just make it into a climbing wall. That\u2019s what Colorado does.\u201d<\/em>Claudia Kanne, part-time Durango resident<\/p>\n

\u201cI like what (Governor) Polis said: \u2018Good thing Colorado now offers free full-day kindergarten so our kids can learn basic geography.\u2019\u201d <\/em>Evan Adams, Durango<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people need to cut him some slack. Unselfishly, he\u2019s taken care of the responsibility of our nation. I think people need to cut him some slack on one faux pas.\u201d <\/em>Gary G., Texas<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Native American, we should have built a wall a long time ago.\u201d<\/em>Evangelia Chavez, Fruitland, N.M., Navajo Nation<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d just move to Utah.\u201d<\/em>Bonnie Baking, Farmington<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy doesn\u2019t he build a wall along Colorado and Utah. That would be better.\u201d<\/em>Alan Golden, Grand Junction<\/p>\n

\u201c(To New Mexicans) We actually like you all. Plus sharpie stuff may stick to your feet but is non-toxic I think.<\/em>Kirby Weaver, on The Journal\u2019s Facebook page<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he had his geography wrong, and now he\u2019s saying it was a joke to cover his mistake, like he does every time. Is this the stupidest (expletive) or what?\u201d<\/em>Gene Burditte<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you can do is shake your head. And on a deeper level, it\u2019s embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cindy Nasky, Golden<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m against walls, period. And half of what he says is not believable. I\u2019m not a fan at this point.\u201d<\/em>Hank Church, Durango<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s very interesting. I\u2019m not sure I agree with his train of thought. I think he says things before he thinks about them. I\u2019m hoping we\u2019ll get him out of office in the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amy Holland, Durango<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s pretty funny considering he had a few big rallies in Albuquerque in the last election. My reaction now is just the same \u2013 he\u2019s a crazy person, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlina Sanchez, Durango<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds like a terrible idea. I\u2019m not in favor of a wall between Mexico and the United States. Similarly, I\u2019m not in favor of a wall between Colorado and New Mexico. It seems like a waste of money to me.\u201d<\/em>Jackson Hughes, Durango<\/p>\n

\u201cI think his comprehension of geography is off. I think it\u2019s pretty sad that our president thinks Colorado has a border with Mexico. Yeah, it\u2019s pretty sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Newbury, Hesperus<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like a silly idea to me. It just sounds like he\u2019s talking nonsense at this point. He\u2019s proposing ideas without any real thought to them.\u201d<\/em>John Ericksen, Denver<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like everyday he says something stupid, so I\u2019m not surprised. He\u2019s born into wealth with a gold spoon up his (butt). He doesn\u2019t know the states. He doesn\u2019t know the Constitution. Basic knowledge really, he doesn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roman Uskevits, Pueblo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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