>>If asked to name 50 issues facing US citizens today, I doubt that the wall would make the cut on any serious person's list.

Illegal immigration is seen as a concern by a plurality of voters in every survey I've seen. Any "serious person" may well ponder how you can control 2000 miles of border if that's where most of the illegal immigration happens.

>>Trump put up buildings in NYC where the Mafia controlled every brick and every light switch and Russian and Chinese mobsters who did the financing watched every penny.
>>He is playing you like a violin.

About what? He can't borrow from Chinese or Russians to build the wall. He's correctly called on Congress since Day 1 to get it sorted. People scoff that he should have gotten it done when the GOP controlled both House and Senate. I expect this is why the GOP House passed a bill as one of its last acts that included wall funding- so voters can see Senate Dems blocking it. If anything, Trump is playing Pelosi and Schumer like a violin as the steady drumbeat of factual information defeats the fact checkers whose antics now seem to follow the other definition of "check" = to block or prevent. Sheesh, even other Dem reps are now going on TV saying a partial wall will be OK.