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Build That Wall! No, Not THAT One.... - DHBirr - 09-20-2018
President Windrip has recommended that the Spanish solve Europe's migration crisis by building a wall ... across the Sahara Desert. Apparently the Mediterranean Sea and Straits of Gibraltar aren't barrier enough. Of course, the terms of his suggestion would mean the Europeans were building on the territory of African nations. Well, anyway, they're "shitholes" in his mind (can anyone truthfully say Windrip has a mind?).
Quote:[Spain's Foreign Minister] said that ... according to [the Minister]’s recollection, [Trump said] that “the Sahara border can’t be bigger than our border with Mexico."
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Though estimates vary, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that the border between the United States and Mexico is roughly 1,900 miles long. Most estimates for the Sahara put it at about 3,000 miles long from east to west.
The Washington Post does offer the possibility that Trump meant this as a joke.
As one Post reader (handle Sneakyfeets) commented:
Quote:America's standing in the world is in free-fall.-----
No, the rest of the world is not laughing at us. They're backing away, their faces twisted in a rictus of horrified incredulity. This is waaaaay past the point of it being humorous.
"Oh, my people had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world." — Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, H. Beam Piper
RE: Build That Wall! No, Not THAT One.... - classicdrogn - 09-20-2018
When Trump was campaigning, it was a funny joke. When he finagled a win, it became tragedy.