Mattis told troops deployed to the border to ignore news coverage questioning the mission - “There’s all sorts of stuff in the news…If you read all that stuff, you’ll go nuts, you know what I mean?” pic.twitter.com/kUm7MWl9mF

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) November 14, 2018

Shorter U.S. Secretary of Defense:

“Try your best not to think about how fucking pointless this is.” https://t.co/KrT9c4VPJm

— David Simon (@AoDespair) November 14, 2018