When my elderly father makes demands we usually nod and agree to make him happy, then ignore it.

I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt for now.

There’s basically no one in politics that is an “open borders” anything. There are some, but not many, people who want full open borders. Saying you’re going to be aware of the border security and being willing to fix the issues with it currently seems pretty normal to me, borders do matter to the very vast majority of American voters.

Saying he wants to "fix the border issues", is not the "self-own" you think it is. There are a lot of issues with US border and immigration policy, that need "fixing".

Y'all are acting like Trump was ever interested in "fixing" the border. Or even attempting to reform it.

This is from October? First of all, it's CNN, you never fucking know what might come out of their news room.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/politics/video/im-a-border-security-democrat-james-talarico-on-immigration-digvid-vrtc

Please tell me this bullshit we don't need a single Democrat working with Trump.

Is he based now?