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On July 23rd, Donald Trump's red-white-and-navy-blue Boeing 757 touched down in Laredo, Texas, where the temperature was climbing to a hundred and four degrees. In 1976, the Times introduced Trump, then a little-known builder, to readers as a publicity shy wunderkind who looks ever so much like Robert Redford, and quoted an admiring observation from the architect Der Scutt: That Donald, he could sell sand to the Arabs. Over the years, Trump honed a performer's ear for the needs of his audience. He starred in The Apprentice for fourteen seasons, cultivating a lordly persona and a squint that combined Clint Eastwood on the high plains and Derek Zoolander on the runway. Once he emerged as the early front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination, this summer, his airport comings and goings posed a delicate staging issue: a rogue wind off the tarmac could render his comb-over fully erect in front of the campaign paparazzi. So, in Laredo, Trump debuted a protective innovation: a baseball hat adorned with a campaign slogan that he recycled from Ronald Reagan's 1980 run for the White House- Make America Great Again! The headwear, which had the rigid facade and the braided rope of a cruise-ship giveaway, added an expeditionary element to the day's outfit, of blazer, pale slacks, golf shoes-well suited for a mission that he was describing as one of great personal risk. I may never see you again, but we're going to do it, he told Fox News on the eve of the Texas visit. When Trump announced his candidacy, on June 16th, he vowed to build a two-thousand-mile-long wall to stop Mexico from sending people that have lots of problems. He said, They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. Three of the statements had no basis in fact-the crime rate among first-generation immigrants is lower than that for native-born Americans-but Trump takes an expansive view of reality. I play to people's fantasies, he writes in The Art of the Deal, his 1987 memoir. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration-and a very effective form of promotion. Trump's campaign announcement was mocked and condemned-and utterly successful. His favorability among Republicans leaped from sixteen per cent to fifty-seven per cent, a greater spike than that of any other candidate's debut. Immigration became the centerpiece of his campaign. Donald Trump has changed the entire debate on immigration, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners last month. As the climax of events in Las Vegas and Phoenix, Trump brought onstage Jamiel Shaw, Sr., whose seventeen-year-old son was killed, in 2008, by a man who was in the country illegally. Trump stood by while Shaw told the crowd how his son was shot. Before departing for Laredo, Trump said, I've been invited by border patrols, and they want to honor me, actually, thousands and thousands of them, because I'm speaking up. Though Trump said border patrols, the invitation had in fact come from a local branch of the border-patrol union, and the local, after consulting with headquarters, withdrew the invitation a few hours before Trump arrived, on the ground that it would not endorse political candidates. Descending the airplane stairs, Trump looked thrilled to be arriving amid a controversy; he waded into a crowd of reporters and described the change of plans as the handiwork of unspecified enemies. They invited me, and then, all of a sudden, they were told, silencio! They want silence. Asked why he felt unsafe in Laredo-which has a lower crime rate than New York City or Washington, D.C.-he invoked another they Well, they say it's a great danger, but I have to do it. I love the country. There's nothing more important than what I'm doing.

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Joshua Jogo is a British Politician and a Member of the Ruling British Conservative Party. He is a conservative political activist with strong views on preserving the cultural heritage of Great Britain. He is the president and founder, Heathrow Getaway Publishing UK. A global publishing and marketing organisation with affiliations with Amazon Worldwide. Joshua is a dedicated Politician with love for political innovation and strategy in a changing society. His political slogan is 'integrity and accountability are twin brothers'. He was the community spokesman of the Conservative Party for Stanwell and Stanwell Moor, Middlesex, United Kingdom during the Surrey County Council Elections in 2009. He is a member of the Spelthorne Conservative Association and serves as a member on the executive committee board representing his local constituency of Stanwell and Stanwell Moor. In 2009 he ran for County Council Elections in Surrey where he nearly unseated the incumbent. In 2015 he ran as a councillor in Spelthorne Borough Council of Surrey. Joshua is passionate about seeing political change occur in Britain where the rule of law, social justice, integrity, honesty, transparency and accountability are the hallmarks of the British political process. He is an educator and holds a Prince 2 Project Management certification and is the CEO of Heathrow Training Services Ltd UK and Heathrow Cyber Services Nig Ltd. He has written a training course on the role of faith groups on David Cameron's Big Society Agenda. He runs a centre for Leadership and Management training based at Stanwell near Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom.

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