A 25-part tweet from Miles Taylor, lifelong Republican, formerly Chief of Staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen:
A (very incomplete) thread of foolish, unethical, un-American, and/or illegal things @realDonaldTrump asked us to do during my tenure...to which the only appropriate response was, “NO.” (1 of 25)
Trump told us: Bus thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants (especially those with criminal records) to Democratic sanctuary cities to create instability and strife. (2 of 25)
Trump told us: Cut off disaster aid to Democratic states and territories (specifically CA & Puerto Rica) because their people and their elected leaders don’t support me. (3 of 25)
Trump told us: Let’s consider trading those poor Puerto Ricans & their broken island for Greenland. (4 of 25)
Trump told us: Don’t worry about Congress & wiretap laws. Just break the law and do what you need to over at homeland security. (5 of 25)
Trump told us: Let’s cut the number of refugees we let into the United States to ZERO. They don’t add anything to our country and are a drain on our welfare system. (6 of 25)
Trump told us: Cut off all foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, even the critical law enforcement cooperation (which helps thwart human smuggling, drug cartels, & sex trafficking) because they’re making me look bad on immigration. (7 of 25)
Trump asked: Can we find a way to spy on the personal phones of White House staff to catch leakers? (8 of 25)
Trump told us: Make this “weak ass travel ban” “much bigger” to include “a lot” of countries. (9 of 25)
Trump told us: We need to bring in more immigrants from Europe, fewer from Somalia, Haiti, Ethiopia and those types places. We’re letting too many poor people in. (10 of 25)
Trump told us: Let’s get the hell out of Afghanistan (despite the persistent terror threat to America). (11 of 25)
Trump told us: Let’s get the hell out of Syria (despite the persistent terror threat to America). (12 of 25)
Trump told us: Let’s ditch these NATO countries (despite it being the backbone of the U.S. global defense alliance). (13 of 25)
Trump told us: Stop talking about Russian “election interference,” and I’m going to fire those people that do. Putin is our friend. (14 of 25)
Trump told us: “Fucking punish” the Mexicans. (No further information.) (15 of 25)
Trump told us: Write and send a bill to Congress to reduce the number of federal judges, especially those which have treated me badly. (16 of 25)
Trump told us: Why don’t we award this massive border wall contract to [favored Trump contractor]? They say they can do it so cheap. (17 of 25)
Trump told us: Shoot migrants in the legs at the border to slow them down. (18 of 25)
Trump told us: Only let the “good” asylum-seekers in, not the ones with “missing toes” or “funny foreheads.” (19 of 25)
Trump told us: Gas migrants at the border to keep them away & electrify the Wall to shock them if they touch it. (20 of 25)
Trump told us: Make the spikes on top of the Wall so sharp that they pierce human flesh in the most gruesome way to scare away other migrants. Make sure there are pictures of it. (21 of 25)
Trump told us: Let’s look at sending illegal immigrants to the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay. (22 of 25)
Trump told us: Build a castle-like mote [sic: moat] across the border in front of the Wall. (23 of 25)
Trump told us: Deploy alligators & snakes in the border “mote” to attack migrants. How much would it cost to maintain that? (24 of 25)
Trump told us: Deliberately rip the children and parents apart at the border to keep them from coming back. Reinstate the policy and make it harsher. (25 of 25...and there are many more.)
