by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
The length of the border separating the United States and Mexico is 1,954 miles, excluding a couple of extra miles of fortifications that stretch out into the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The border runs from San Diego, across Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and all of south Texas down to the southernmost point of Brownsville.
Back in 2016 when Donald Trump was entertaining the rubes with tales of the Great Wall that he was going to build when he became President, many envisioned something along the lines of what the Chinese had done a couple of thousand years ago - and stretching from San Diego to Brownsville. But those plans, like most other things in Trump World, turned out to be an extreme exaggeration.
Trump, in fact, seemed to forget about his wall the first two years that he was in the White House, the two years when he had a Republican House and Senate and could have conceivably gotten some things done. In fact, he did little more that play golf his first two years in office. But then as mid-terms approached and people began noticing that very little was getting done in the Trump White House, Trump and his inner-circle suddenly began re-forcusing on the wall. It became a rush priority.
As of December of 2019, less than one hundred miles of the new structure had been built, and it was strung out over several locations. And instead of being a massive barrier to immigration or whatever it was that Trump wanted to protect us from, the new wall looked more like a very tall picket fence. One young lad from Mexico was arrested by US border agents after he quickly scaled the wall and came down on the US side using only a rope. Then, in late January of 2020, 130 feet of the new wall blew over during high winds at a location along the border in Southern California and landed on a grove of nearby trees.
Recently Trump called his wall "the most powerful and comprehensive border structure in the world."
Now there are multiple news reports this morning stating that a section of Trump's Great Wall blew over last night in south Texas as a result of Tropical Storm Hanna, and the wall is currently lying on the ground in Mexico. (Some administration sources are apparently denying that it happened and claim that the footage being shown on the media was actually of the incident last January in California.)
Today will ultimately tell the tale of whether Trump's wall really did blow over - again - last night, but regardless of how that story ends, a couple of things are obvious: Trump and his Great Wall are both wobbly, and neither one garners much respect!
A collapsing wall serving as a metaphor for a collapsing presidency. That's an image even a Trump supporter can understand!
Citizen Journalist
The length of the border separating the United States and Mexico is 1,954 miles, excluding a couple of extra miles of fortifications that stretch out into the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The border runs from San Diego, across Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and all of south Texas down to the southernmost point of Brownsville.
Back in 2016 when Donald Trump was entertaining the rubes with tales of the Great Wall that he was going to build when he became President, many envisioned something along the lines of what the Chinese had done a couple of thousand years ago - and stretching from San Diego to Brownsville. But those plans, like most other things in Trump World, turned out to be an extreme exaggeration.
Trump, in fact, seemed to forget about his wall the first two years that he was in the White House, the two years when he had a Republican House and Senate and could have conceivably gotten some things done. In fact, he did little more that play golf his first two years in office. But then as mid-terms approached and people began noticing that very little was getting done in the Trump White House, Trump and his inner-circle suddenly began re-forcusing on the wall. It became a rush priority.
As of December of 2019, less than one hundred miles of the new structure had been built, and it was strung out over several locations. And instead of being a massive barrier to immigration or whatever it was that Trump wanted to protect us from, the new wall looked more like a very tall picket fence. One young lad from Mexico was arrested by US border agents after he quickly scaled the wall and came down on the US side using only a rope. Then, in late January of 2020, 130 feet of the new wall blew over during high winds at a location along the border in Southern California and landed on a grove of nearby trees.
Recently Trump called his wall "the most powerful and comprehensive border structure in the world."
Now there are multiple news reports this morning stating that a section of Trump's Great Wall blew over last night in south Texas as a result of Tropical Storm Hanna, and the wall is currently lying on the ground in Mexico. (Some administration sources are apparently denying that it happened and claim that the footage being shown on the media was actually of the incident last January in California.)
Today will ultimately tell the tale of whether Trump's wall really did blow over - again - last night, but regardless of how that story ends, a couple of things are obvious: Trump and his Great Wall are both wobbly, and neither one garners much respect!
A collapsing wall serving as a metaphor for a collapsing presidency. That's an image even a Trump supporter can understand!
1 comment:
Except that was old footage, not the wall, and the observed footage not from Hanna. We all got punked.
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