The government is not a business, not that Trump knows how to run a business, either.

One of the reasons our world is so fucked today is businesses chasing short-term profit to inflate their stock prices, while offloading any future responsibilities to the future.

Since a government is not a business, we can actually choose to spend money today to achieve monetary and even non-monetary goals in the future.

So even if Trump were correct in his assessment of the costs, and he’s obviously not, but even if he were, this would be a piss poor decision.