Trump: The Wall will be artistically designed steel, indirectly funded by Mexico
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President Donald Trump backed down from a political standoff this week, abandoning a pledge to proudly shut down the government if Democrats wouldn’t fund his border wall and
potentially signaling the project could never come to be.
But Trump won’t stop talking about it, taking to Twitter to regurgitate some old claims — that Mexico will pay for it indirectly and that the military will build it — and add some new
explanations, like that his wall will actually be “artistically designed steel slats.”
Twice as it became clear in recent days that Congress would not write him a check for the wall, Trump said Mexico would ultimately pay for it, albeit indirectly. “Mexico is paying
(indirectly) for the Wall through the new USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA! Far more money coming to the U.S.,” he said in a tweet Wednesday morning.
“I often stated, ‘One way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the Wall,'” Trump said on Twitter last Thursday. “This has never changed. Our new deal with Mexico (and Canada), the
USMCA, is so much better than the old, very costly & anti-USA NAFTA deal, that just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!”
Trump once pledged his barrier on the southern border would absolutely not be a fence, but rather a “big beautiful wall.” It’s worth noting a change in his language that occurred this
week when the President said it would still be beautiful, but is now set to be “artistically designed steel slats, so you can easily see through it….”
But the type of structure Trump now seems to be referring to, with his talk of steel slats, appears very similar to the “bollard-style” barriers referred to as fences under previous
administrations. Congress has authorized construction of similar types of fencing.
The ugliest art piece
Build the fence!
"It's the best fence, you've never seen such a wonderful picket fence. It's beautiful. It really is."
Downscale it again so its just a sign that says "keep out"
Let's play around with the dirtiest math imaginable using common materials you can find in fifteen minutes or less of halfassed searching!
Your garden variety quarter inch structural angle beams of 4x4 come at about 250 bucks per twenty foot beam
Let's assume, because we're lazy and this math is filthy that you have two of these every foot. So let's call that five hundred bucks per foot. Because I like fives
Because this is A M E R I C A we can multiply that cost by 5280, the amount of feet in a mile
So far we're at 2,640,000 USD per mile, and we can multiply that by the distance of the US-Mexico border, which we'll round off to two thousand miles
Which nets us 5,280,000,000. 5.2 billion US dollars
Who wants to work out the concrete and contractor costs?
Don't worry, the MAGA retards will pay for it with their GoFundMe.
artisanal steel, bohemian barbed wire, concord concrete. Only the finest ingredients are allowed into our wall. MAGA.....MAga.....maga....
The Wall.
(only avalible at crazytown USA, see store for details)
in the Triangle, Trump is notorious for not paying his contractors, so free.
If its giant bars like that, what stops someone from shimmying up with a rope wrapped around it and your waist.
I was kinda hoping we'd get a little bit of the concrete one just to see what kind of art people painted on both sides of it.
God, is he still going on about this worthless vanity project? America needs this about as much as anyone needs a cow's ass once you take out the beef.
The same thing that stops someone from bringing a ladder to a wall; an invention literally as old as we have had walls which may have been invented to build such walls to begin with.
Um no?
Obviously Mexican immigrants, they are cheap and nobody else wants to do the job.
Wait a minute...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/19/worried-about-trumps-fragile-ego-republicans-negotiate-terms-his-surrender/
This "artistically-designed steel and Mexico will pay for it by way of my trade deal that totally isn't NAFTA don't call it NAFTA" business is 100% about saving Trump's ego from seeing its own shadow.
https://youtu.be/520Dt7AEMe0
This sounds like the kind of plans a modder makes about features that never get added.
How much longer until we're like that Bojack Horseman episode where the movie turns into a monthly gift basket
CIA buys drugs from cartels, sells it, money goes towards the wall
I mean it wouldnt be incorrect
You know instead, rather than building it like some sort of peasant, which we know he is very far from being, he should instead invest in Satellites armed with something like, Tungsten Rods, then launch them into the Earth where he wants to build his Wall, I mean, it sounds like the best and safest way to build the wall, no person is present besides maybe some of THOSE people, and hey, it'll make for a nice show.
"Artistically Designed"
Donald Trump, patron of the arts
patron of the arts of thieving, betrayal, and lying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMN-gNfdaY
So I skimmed through the trade agreement, and it actually seems pretty favorable to Mexico? Like there's nothing I saw that seemed actually bad for Mexico. There's some benefits for them, some wage raises, but nothing that seems to cost them anything. Canada's giving up some market protections (which they were already treating as a negotiating chip, they gave it up in TPP although that never passed), and there's some stuff that affects all three (raising the minimum parts needed for a car to count as "domestic", but that's an anti-EU/China/etc measure; there's some IP enforcement I'm sure will horrify me if I read into more).
I admit I only skimmed it, not actually read the whole thing, but you'd think if Mexico was giving up multiple billions of dollars worth of concessions it would be pretty damn visible. Unless someone else can point at something I missed, I'm forced to conclude that Mexico is not, in any sense of the word, paying for this.
now I'm scared
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