BEHIND THE CURVE: One day after U.S. Northern Commander Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy said he had no idea where anyone got the idea that he was preparing to send as many as 14,000 troops to the southern border, his boss, the commander in chief, floated an even higher number. “As far as the caravan is concerned, our military is out,” President Trump told reporters at the White House yesterday as he prepared to leave for a rally in Florida. “We’ll go up to anywhere between 10,000 and 15,000 military personnel on top of Border Patrol, ICE and everybody else at the border.”

On Tuesday, O’Shaughnessy said the total number of active-duty troops to be deployed to the border had not been determined, but he flatly dismissed the 14,000 number as “not consistent with what’s actually being planned.” The number was reported by Newsweek on Monday night. “I honestly don’t even know where that came from. That is not in line with what we’ve been planning.”