Trump has released his requirements for the US-Mexico border wall, and boy, are they ridiculous.
According to Fox News, the wall needs to be 30 feet high, it should be hard to climb or cut through, and it must look formidable on the Mexican side, but look good from the US side (because if you’re going to build a big dirty wall, you might as well give it a Better Homes and Gardens style makeover).
That is it. That’s all his requirements. MUST BE BIG, STRONG, AND PRETTY (for Americans).
I think that maybe, just maybe, not a lot of thought was put into this wall that's going to cost US tax payers over 21 billion dollars.
In fact, let's run through these requirements one by one to see how they stack up:
1. The wall should be 30 feet high.
I'm not great at maths, but even I could figure out that 30 feet isn't actually that high. It's basically just 30 foot long subs.
Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes Speech. Discuss. on Mamamia Out Loud.
According to Fox Latino News, the average Mexican male is 5 feet 4 1/2 inches tall. This is good news for Mexicans who want to pull off the ultimate trolling of Trump - you only need five of your mates to stand below you and hoist you up over the wall.
Or you could just buy a 36 foot ladder.
"BORDER WALL REQUIREMENTS:
30-Foot High Wall."It took me a whole minute to find this 36 foot ladder ???? pic.twitter.com/4RertHRcS0
— Mr Jim (@jimmidill) March 20, 2017
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Of course there already exists a border fence between the US and Mexico but let's not let that fact get in the way of another good old Trump bashing article.
Border security has been funded with billions of dollars for several decades by both sides of US politics and numerous Presidents for many years, there is no denying it.
In just 2 months it's suddenly seen as a critical issue.
Has anyone told Trump this?
I think that's exactly the point - there already is a wall/fence/barrier/security monitoring the whole length of the border, so how's another (extremely expensive) one going to fix the 'problem'? Simplistic slogan alert.
The border security has been there for decades, costs a few lazy billion dollars every year regardless of the political party in power which always continued the funding and suddenly now it has a spotlight on it after decades of funding by both sides of Government.
Surprised he didn't try to change the name of the guards to the Nights Watch at the same time...