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With President Donald Trump set to address the nation Tuesday night about border security and restate his case for a proposed wall with Mexico, his regular antagonistStormy Danielssays she’ll be tuning out and is reminding others they can do the same.
“If you’re looking for anything even remotely worth watching tonight at 9pm EST, I will be folding laundry in my underwear for 8 minutes on Instagram live,” the adult film star, who allegesshe had a tryst with Trumpin 2006,tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
Trump has said he never had a sexual relationship with Daniels. In December the court ordered herto pay him nearly $300,000in legal fees after her defamation suit against him was dismissed.
As former aides to PresidentBarack Obamawere quick to point out, he had requested network airtime to make an address to the nation in 2014but was rebuffed— unlike Trump.
“The President’s address … will be full of malice and misinformation,”Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house, andChuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader,said in a statement on Monday, noting Trump’shistory of misstatements and factual distortions.
The networks are also planning various forms of fact-checking during Trump’s address, sources confirm to PEOPLE — an unusual move for a presidential address and a reflection of Trump’s particular facility with untruths.
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Like Daniels, Philippe Reines, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, shared counter-programming optionson Twitter Tuesday, writing, “Which of these 9pm options do you recommend I watch tonight instead of trump’s border rant?”
Opponents charge that a wall is ineffectual and immoral. “It’s not who we are as a nation,” Pelosi told reporters.
With characteristic exaggeration, Trumpfired back on Twitter Sunday:
“The only reason they do not want to build a Wall is that Walls Work! 99% of our illegal Border crossings will end, crime in our Country will go way down and we will save billions of dollars a year! A properly planned and constructed Wall will pay for itself many times a year!”
In their statement on Monday, Pelosi and Schumer were unfazed.
“Unfortunately, President Trump keeps rejecting the bipartisan House-passed bills, which have already received strong bipartisan support in the Senate, to re-open the government,” they argued. “Instead, he is still demanding that American taxpayers pay at least $5.7 billion for his wall, which can’t pass either chamber of Congress and of course Mexico is not paying for.”
source: people.com
