After another night of peaceful protests outside Lafayette Square, workers were seen putting up new fencing barriers around the White House complex Thursday morning, adding to the 8-foot fence that was erected around the entrance to Lafayette Square earlier this week.
Reporters arriving at the White House as early as 5:30 a.m. ET Thursday described seeing black fences being put up along the Eisenhower Executive Office Building entrance on 17th Street NW.
(NBC News, June 4, 2020)
This week in 1987, former President Ronald Reagan famously stood in front of the Berlin Wall and bellowed these immortal words:
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Well, today American citizens are famously standing in front of the fence surrounding the White House and shouting these fateful words:
Mr. Trump, tear down this fence!
In so many ways, Trump has turned himself into a caged, scaredy cat. But such a feral animal – with its paws on the levers of so much power, to say nothing of the nuclear buttons – scares the living daylights out of me.
So God help us – until we free him from his cage on Inauguration Day 2021; or, as I insinuated in yesterday’s commentary, he finagles his escape sooner …
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