@EdJames
In the end, though, BSing and talking are all that he has to do. His fans will defend him regardless, and he knows it.
The reason he's largely limited to BS'ing and talking is that the Constitution makes immigration law the primary responsibility of
Congress, and it has essentially abdicated that responsibility. And even if the Supreme Court ultimately upholds his actions, it can take
years for that to happen, during which time an injunction may remain in place.
The best hope we've got is for him to be able to draw enough public attention to this issue -- on which the poll numbers actually favor tougher border security. Sober, rational, deep-thinking statements don't attract sound bites, aren't covered by much of the media, and so his ability to draw attention to those issues is limited. But when he says over the top, ridiculous things, the media covers it because they assume everyone thinks as they do, and so it will hurt his popularity. But that brings to mind the brilliant comment by Salena Zito -- the press takes him literally but not seriously, so they mock him. But supporters (and that group is larger on some issues than on others) take him seriously, but not literally. He may say something that sounds stupid about the border, but an awful lot of people end of thinking "well, that's over the top, but he does have a point. The border needs to be more secure."
It's sad that we've gotten to the point where making some asinine statements may turn out to be a sound strategy, but I blame that on an overwhelmingly one-sided media that generally only prints things it believes will hurt Trump. The kicker is that their judgments as to whether a statement will help or hurt him isn't all that good.