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    Trump's imaginary friends: Are Democrats for a wall any more real than 'Jim' in Paris?

    by Eli Stokols and Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Jan 30, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has a long list of imaginary friends.

    There was "Jim," who no longer visits Paris because immigrants have sullied its allure - a character whose existence White House aides were never able to confirm. There were his White House predecessors who, he claimed, told him they wished they had built a southern border wall - an assertion each former president denied. There have been the many otherwise "tough" people Trump has described anecdotally in countless speeches, who, he's insisted, cried tears of awe and gratitude in his presence.

    And through the record 35-day partial government shutdown, there were the federal workers who, despite missing two paychecks, "care so much about border security," Trump said,

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