Source: Semafor
by David Weigel
“You don’t hear much about the ‘big, beautiful door’ anymore. During Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign, when some Republicans were queasy about building a 1954-mile border wall, he liked to add a caveat. There would be a wall, but it would have a door — big, beautiful, and sometimes even ‘fat’ — for the people ‘coming in legally.’ That never happened in Trump’s first term. Running again in 2024, after the Biden-era backlash to millions of new asylum-seekers, Trump never mentioned the ‘door.'” (05/30/25)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/30/2025/how-trumps-big-beautiful-door-got-a-lot-smaller