Originally published at: Trump's border wall construction now a rusting heap of steel | Boing Boing
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"My name is Donnymandias, Prez of Prezzes.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair."
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Auction it off while it’s worth more than the cost of removal.
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Leave some of it in place as America’s Monument to Stupidity and Hate.
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Definitely more appropriate than a presidential library.
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Sounds like the perfect backdrop location for filming apocalyptic movie scenes. Desert, rusting ruins, piles of scrap, etc.
Maybe as the government begins to use civil forfeiture to seize Mar-A-Lago and other assets from the as-yet-unconvicted Russian* spy who’s been occupying it, they can start renting those properties out to other film crews.
Of course that’s probably not the best use of however-many billions of dollars of our money were originally wasted on them. But it’s not like they’re going to collect money out of him any other way.
* Technically we don’t know for sure that Trump sold top secret documents to Russia. It could have been China, North Korea, or even the Saudis.
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But save some to put three rings of wall around Mar-a-lago. Then use eminent domain to designate it a federal prison.
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I’m genuinely surprised they built any of it. The whole thing seemed like such an obvious grift. If they built most of the length of Arizona, that exceeds expectations. Still a stupid waste of money, of course.
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So instead of a rusting wall it’s a rusting heap. It will all be a rusting heap soon enough as they used trumps contractors
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“FAILING Donald Trump couldn’t even Build The Wall! SAD!”
/s
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They built over existing wall that needed repair. Almost no “new” wall was constructed. He frequently celebrated completion, including one big celebration around the election of 450 miles, which was almost entirely replacing existing wall (and of which large sections have since fallen down)
Despite spending over $15 billon dollars, most estimates pin the amount of “new” wall between 47 and 100 miles. The US-Mexico border is 1933 miles long.
A wall is a stupid idea. See also: China. Better immigration processes and policies would solve almost all of the actual issues.
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Cut it up into chunks and sell it at a souvenir stand like they did with the Berlin Wall. Paperweights, snow globes, garden decorations.
If you agree with the sentiments behind the wall, maybe you could get him and members of the administration to sign it on autograph row at the next DeplorableCon.
If you hate him with the passion of a thousand suns, buy a chunk and paint a rainbow on it, put it in your front yard. It’ll probably ward off GOP doorknockers, they’re afraid of rainbows.
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Brb, just going to buy a ton of random scrap metal, cut it into bite-sized chunks and sell it to the dupes at CPAC and Trump rallies. Tell them it’s either “unused steel from the completed border wall” or “structural girders from the World Trade Center (never forget)”. Or maybe a fragment of the True Cross on which Saint Donald of Mar-a-Lago was martyred by the leftists.
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Spending taxpayer money to litter. Yeah, that’s on-brand.
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Scene: trump is holding a taser, with wires coiling off to a feral-looking Rudy Giuliani, who is chanting “you are the Duke of Mar-A-Lago, you are A-number-one!”
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In all the discussions over the years about the cost of the various walls put up by You Know Who as well as by the Previous Worst POTUS, seldom, if ever does anyone do the arithmetic on the cost.
In this particular instance:
$15 B / 100 miles / 5280 feet / 12 inches = $2367.42 per INCH
Why, it’s almost enough to make you think the walls are a boondoggle…
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I was going to suggest suppositories. Knurled suppositories.
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Generations from now, people will buying pieces of The One True Heap.
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Oh, the symbolism!
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