The crazy thing is that despite this costing literally billions of dollars; they have the money for it! That’s right, Congress decided to cut funding for public broadcasting and benefits for Americans and instead give CBP billions for the border wall, which they’ll now use to paint the wall black.
I’d rather them use that allocated money for dumb (harmless) things rather than harmful anti-immigration activities.
4-dimensional chess, this guy.
Some day his voters will have to answer for this dumb fuckery....
Only a matter of time until they put cameras up so the MAGA sadists can watch people and animals be incinerated.
That's how climate change works
Psst!! Don't tell him that in winter, when is cold, it will leave the wall warmer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 🤣
It isn't even a wall. It's a fence. Trump sold everyone a wall, put up a fence and called it a wall. Now everyone calls it a wall. These are the things that alarm me. It's this easy for them to mislead, misinform and miseducate people.
The tunnels are a much cooler option anyway.
Trump is a f'ing moron. They've traveled thousands of miles on foot & braved God knows what dangers, but they'll refuse to climb a black wall?🤣
Ordered by a man who has never painted anything in his life. What is the budget for maintenance of the paint? And because crossing at night isn't a thing........right, got it.
Idiots
That's gonna take a lot of sharpies.
What, has he abandoned his previous plan for an alligator-filled moat along the entire length of the wall? I think he's going woke. 🙄
Black paint won't make the metal any hotter than it already is. Also has he ever heard of gloves?
Painting the wall black - so that it's too hot to touch - is a perfectly moronic idea.
I'm not sure this is what Mick Jagger meant when he sang "Paint it Black."
Living our best lives in the alternate reality
Another idea/action to be evil...what would Jesus say?
The incredibly dumb thing about this is that they can’t control what anyone does on the Mexican side, which is the only side anyone is likely to touch unless they’re trying to escape OUT of the U.S. But then again, I’m sure many of us may be inclined to do just that the way things are going.
It's probably the least harmful thing they'll do with the money.
„I see a red wall and I want it painted black.“ Maybe Stinky has been listening to some Stones.
I’m not sure which is worse, his saying it or her being so proud and impressed by him saying it.
I see a red wall and I want to paint it black...
PSA: the federal government issues its own currency. As such they “have the money” for anything. They can purchase literally everything for sale in their own currency. They shouldn’t of course, but they can. Whatever the US can do, the US govt can afford.
By "they have the money for it" he means ICE, which has a budget, which is allocated by congress. Yeah, the US gov has the money to afford anything, I mean they can issue debt endlessly. But that doesn't mean every department gets infinite budget.
He does imply that cuts in one area enabled spending in another, which plays along with the neoliberal paradigm where a govt must first raise money in taxes before it can spend or “borrow” to run a deficit. Progressives shoot themselves in the foot by reinforcing that economic myth.
No gloves in Mexico? Seriously??
Painting the roses red.
It's weathering steel. Once you paint it you will have to continue to paint it forever...
Thank god no one has ever figured out how to put something over their hands that stops them from feeling heat.
He’s never seen kitchen mittens?
I thought they were looking for $waste$
Nothing a $4 pair of gloves couldn't overcome. Brilliant plan!
I guess they are unaware of clouds, night, or winter.
That right there? Government waste. Drain the swamp, etc.
I can only assume that the supplier of black paint is a child sex trafficker who Trump has used for his child rape needs and Trump needed a way to pay him that did not draw attention to Trump’s child rape.
Trump sees the border and he wants it painted black, No colors anymore, He wants it to be black
Paint it black, you devil!
I came to say this and you said it better!
He wants to see it painted, painted, painted Painted black
If he paints it black he’ll have to arrest it.
It’s all futile, because you don’t need to TOUCH a wall made of a material that corrodes when exposed to normal breathable atmosphere. You just kick in a rusty portion and pass through the bottom.
Like, there are very good REASONS why nobody uses long rods of steel to build any other kinds of walls.
I think they are steel wrapped concrete, which is hard to cut, but have you seen construction tools lately? I'd bet there is a portable battery operated tool that will saw through one.
You find some steel that’s sufficiently corroded, a sledgehammer will do the job. That’s why walls are usually rebar INSIDE the (very thick) concrete. It’s always been a very stupid design.
it has creepy Berlin Wall vibes. How long before it's keeping people in instead of out?
… Because migrants would never think about wearing gloves or crossing at night? F’ing moron.
why not gold plated?
given all the options on what to spend our borrowed trillions on, this is towards the top of my list, which is ranked from least cruel and violent to most immoral and hateful. so slap all the paint you'd like on this shit, orange dipshit and fish lipped dummy
Lol good Ole kristi or the original Eleanor Rigby... keeping her face in a jar by the door.
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It's going to be a difficult mission for his crew. Painting it black will make them want to knock it down and beat it up.
The Chinese built a wall The Great Wall Based on a dream Over 13171 miles long 2500 yrs to build It kept no one out It was scaled with ladders Seemed like a great idea But some dreams just don’t work out Some dreams Are simply dreams
🎶 I want a racist wall And I want to paint it black🎶
I'm surprised he didn't order it to be gold plated. That is what he considers big and beautiful for everything.
How do I ever get my black cast iron out of the oven? It's a mystery.
Imagine just a bunch of Mexican people trolling standing at the stupid fucking wall wearing oven mitts just filming themselves touching the “HOTTEST” black paint. God these mfs are so fucking stupid!
Lmao
Does he know there are gloves?
Those dumb fvcks don’t understand when the sun goes down it cools off. Also the time when people cross most…
Wait...so Mexico's not going to pay for the wall paint?
Are they hoping that Mexicans never learn about gloves?
Just to highlight the ignorance of this administration, painting the wall black will not significantly increase the temperature of the bare steel, and the steel used rusts to create a permanent barrier to corrosion or deterioration and painting it will only create an ongoing need for maintenance.
rather paint something else black youtu.be/UNa4RdfFjuI
And this will be a never-ending project. By the time they finish, the first sections will need to be repainted. Billions in boondoggle, from the Real estate president 🙄
He's so beyond uneducated that it's bizarre.
Many, many Canadians support PBS with $$… Could someone post a picture of the newly painted wall please so we can sit and watch that when we all lose this quality programming?? Thanks much.
Is trump aware of WINTER?!
Or you know... Night.
No matter the color, the wall can still be cut through in 20 minutes with tools from Home Depot.
Also: oven mitts exist
what a jerkoff, more ways to kill, his mother cheated with a Mexican🧈🖕
🎶 I see a red wall and I want to paint it black No people of color any more I want them to turn back 🎶 I SEE THE GIRLS WALK BY DRESSED IN THEIR SUMMER CLOTHES (I have to turn my head until my darkness goes) bsky.app/profile/reic...
Hopefully nobody invents gloves and shoes
dumb dumb dumb
Whitewash the Smithsonian, paint the border wall black. Got it.
Money for hate & oligarchs not paying taxes can always be found.
just surreal; right up there with why don't we nuke the hurricanes
So, we are going to waste taxpayer dollars on painting a structure that will need to be inspected, and repaired on a regular basis, because that puppy looks like it was designed to be weathered steel 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ And, yes, cruelty appears to be the point here
Have sympathy. What are they possibly going to do spend all this money. They need to get creative.
Enough Vantablack to coat a mile of border wall would cost around 2 billion dollars, through I expect the price would go down if you bought enough of it; anyway you could probably spend the whole budget on black paint if you really wanted to go crazy
Trump did float the idea of building an alligator-infested moat last time...
One way or another a huge portion of our money is going into the Trump family coffers. And no one's going to stop them.
Somewhere a paint manufacturer who bought some Trump gimcrack is ramping up his production of black paint and shopping for a yacht.
And has a mysterious new silent partner based in the Cayman Islands.
Lol
There are about 800-900 miles of the border still unwalled, and with the $46.6 billion they got in HR1, they’ll be able to finish hundreds more miles of that. /a lot is in remote parts of Texas near Big Bend that really doesn’t need wall, so it’s not clear if they want to build it there.
The wall does enormous environmental damage.
Yup. And looks obscene.
And the ranchers and farmers in those areas hate them
Wait til we find out about all the over-billing from “Don Jr and Eric Painting Inc”
The more of this money they spend on things that are totally ineffectual, the happier I'll be.
And then there are Greg Abbott's walls. 6 miles from the border. "The wall is not a contiguous structure but fragmented sections scattered across these counties." With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program | KERA News share.google/6D7Lxkhmezoh...
Another money laundering scheme for the Trump family
Mexico will play for that.
Destroying a delicate ecosystem for the love of the game
I grew up in that desert. I still think building a wall in it is ridiculous for so so many reasons.
Have they never heard of gloves?
So wind turbines are a blight on the landscape but a huge miles-long black fence isn't?
Better to see the money burned than used effectively. It would be best if the money were spent effectively on actually improving people's lives of course.
And none of them have thought of 🧤 GLOVES? Morons Are Governing America
Yes! Because the sun shines all night down on the border! Brilliant!
Good grief!
Idiots it was black
Somebody tell the moron it's gonna be cool overnight. Brain dead fuck.
Bonus physics fact, painting it black will cause it to cool faster.
Why's that? We have done experiments here in LA with painting some sections of road lighter shades because the black asphalt keeps holding onto heat for a long time after the sun is down and keeps temps higher in the area
Black radiates heat more efficiently. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissiv...
Point being the painting the road thing seems like it'd be contradictory to what you're saying?
It is true (but misleading for this case) to say that black object cool faster. They both absorb and release heat more effectively than lighter colored objects. So the black objects gets hotter and is "cooling faster" from a higher starting temperature. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_b...
Right..that makes sense. It gets further out from the baseline temperature and so, of course, accelerates more quickly back towards that baseline once the heat source is gone.
Wait, shouldn’t the wall itself be able to stop ppl from getting past it, regardless of how hot it is to touch?
Clearly this was The Orange One’s idea. 🙄
All the better for graffiti to stand out
DOGE cut funding to libraries, food pantries, and museums; but the US has the spare money to paint Trump's border wall🙄
Remember when the experts said black was a bad idea bc of the cost of repainting, which will have to happen more frequently if it's black? It will be an unending project. Start at one end and paint all the way to the other, then go back to the start.
Another waste of money. Paint it black so that it goes from being so hot you have to wear gloves to so hot you have wear gloves.
He is a mean man.
The mad king.
What happens in the winter? 🙄
The Trump administration should also watch more Warner Bros. cartoons to come up with more ways to look stupid while trying to apprehend humans crossing the border.
Why do I hear Weird Al doing a Rolling Stones parody of “Paint it Black” coming on? “…I see a border wall and want to paint it black…”
Unless you wear gloves.
Could they save money by hiring some immigrants to do it?
It'll be nice and warm in winter. 🤡
He is so stupid, Mexicans work under the sun in construction , in the fields , they are used to the heat and burning hands , just look at the pyramids !!! BTW there is an artifact call gloves . PENDEJO
Oh FFS.
Sooooo much better to buy paint and cancel Meals on Wheels…. Genius 🇺🇸
in fact they have our money for it.
It also matches the colors of the MAGA soul. No shortage of accidental physical metaphors, eh.
I saw the red fence and I want to paint it black - The Rolling Stones
Don’t people just walk around it? Isn’t it like 5 miles long?
Will it be too hot to circumvent
Gloves, moron. Gloves.
Omg
I'm no expert on crossing the border but wouldn't the sensible person do it at night when no one can see you (and the wall won't be too hot to touch).
There are also other seasons...
That too.
one of the biggest failings of the American media and political class since at least Reagan is taking at face value the idea that republicans care about the debt or government spending. for decades it has been the same cycle of R complains about spending under D then spend more themselves
followed by confused articles about they are confused about republican spending
Gloves. 🧤
We live in the stupidest timeline
Who feeds him this crap?
cue Stones song
Better use of money than kidnapping gangs.
I just face palmed so hard I hurt myself.
The sun doesn’t set on the wall? Black paint is hot at night?
Better than gold-leaf, I guess …
Absolute waste of taxpayer money - many migrants are coming here to work construction or in kitchens. They’ll just have to put on their work gloves or oven mitts to climb the wall now. #WasteFraudandAbuse
Seems odd to spend any more money on the border if it is already completely closed as per Trump, Noem, the bald fascist guy with no neck, and Fox News?
Have gloves been invented yet?
This has been tried before with limited results.
Can The Stones sue?
And NASA will send men to the sun, but they’ll land there at night.
Um...gloves.
Yeah, no one scales the wall at night or when it’s not sunny or wearing gloves?
😀 that was my first thought. I live in AZ, no one touches metal in the summer.
They going to go over into Mexico now, too, to paint the Mexican side?
That’s going to be great for climate change too- make the areas even hotter
Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid
Pretty sure anyone cutting through that cheap fence doean't need to touch it. Also: GLOVES.
How nice of them to primer it for graffiti artists.
A yeah that'll do it. Genius move. Get the national guard on that stat.
I'll just sit here and wait for the inevitable rolling stones lawsuit.
Can't wait for Banksy to paint something on it and after it goes up for auction at Sotheby's maybe we'll come out even.
I feel for the people whose land this is on. That area inmost states is beautiful and now there will be this giant ugly black wall. This from a guy who hates the way windmills look. Guess the wall isn’t near one of his golf courses.
Didn’t someone write a song about this?
And it still won't stop anyone.
metal in the blazing sun *will* be hot, black or not. at night it won't be any hotter with black paint than without. this dumbfuck.
When you say Congress did something, it’s really republicans.
The Iron City of Dis, its walls and towers of metal just below red hot, the damned souls within suffering torments from their demonic guards. Trump's Golden Age
They also cut funding for an LGBTQ suicide hotline kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
🎶I see a red door and I want it painted black🎶
Oh how ridiculous.
Rolling Stones -- Paint it black? Ok, just sayin'
Meanwhile The Rolling Stones lawyers are already drafting a cease and desist letter for when the inevitable propaganda video drops…
Has he never heard of gloves?
Do they know that the Desert tends to get fairly cool at night?
This is because the shits rusting. They didn't plan on telling Mexico they'd have to paint the wall they payed for. Oh yeah, we're paying for that distraction.
Yes because no one has developed a technology called "gloves". These people are so astoundingly stupid and unfortunately every stupid person thinks they are brillaint
Cruelty is the point!
Presumably a very dark black paint for mad orange kings: Fanta Black.
They're hoping nobody south of the border has discovered gloves.
Guess when it’s black this won’t work anymore. Wait for the end… 🤣🤣🤣 youtube.com/shorts/XOqNA...
Gloves.
good luck to them, they can't actually hire people to paint it -now... they will pay a corporation to do it, but it won't get done- show me the trump supporters lining up to paint in the heat of summer for a temp job- no benes... it would be funny it it weren't so stupid/dystopian
In that sort of heat they could just leave it bare and it'd be burning hot.
Will they add the faux gold inlay later?
Actually 💡 muralists! Get your gold spray paint cans and turn to. The Chicano Underground Air Force strikes back 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 friends don’t need fences
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in other words, the president has another crazy idea and they fall all over themselves to carry out the stupid idea
Surprised it won't be gold
This is just so staggeringly dumb. As Though people hoping To cross the wall have never heard of gloves
Is it just me, or does this only work during the heat of the day? If I was trying to climb a wall around dawn, I think black paint would probably make it better, not worse to handle.
I touched the wall in Arizona along the Rio Grande in August 2019. It's plenty hot.
pretty sure if someone has the focus and desperate need to escape somewhere else, they will find a way to climb a black fence
Trump has never heard of gloves.
Pretty sure they sell gloves in Mexico, assuming the migrants don't just, you know, cross at night.
Next, he'll be painting the White House gold.
Only the US has the technology to make...gloves.
Imagine Noem's dismay when she sees that footwear exists.
Omg I lol’d So funny
But, what if the coyotes invent nighttime?
Stop the earths rotation
Night time. Late Fall, Winter, and Early Spring. The wall may get to be 80 degrees. Oh my.
Or white paint.
if they can buy cordless sawzalls from the hardware store, they can buy welders gloves he's really losing touch
So who gets the billions in a contract to do this? One of his already rich buddies I’m sure.
Caligula orders, minions obey.
I see a dumb wall and I want to paint it black
Gonna take a lot of rustoleum rust converter.
He started this crap in his first term.
Why must everything be so stupid?
100% this is just a way to launder money to a friend who will win the bid. So, stupid yes, but mostly criminal.
I think you know the answer.
I’m just relieved he doesn’t want to paint it gold. 😅
And then he'll have "TRUMP" painted on it too.
Grilling gloves
And will need to be painted every year
And brown tinted metal doesn't get hot! Oh really
What makes it so gloriously stupid is: it’s not going to affect people at night, is it? Except to make it harder to get a clear IR picture of them. Heat cycles won’t help the steel or paint, either.
Oh, ^^^ egad. 🤨🫣 ...And now I'm thinking of the Rolling Stones song from long ago...
Gloves?
well he is copying netanyahu's wall but i bet this gets updated to gold leaf of trump's name on each metal bar.
Any adult or child that ever dealt with a metal slide can tell, no matter the color, metal gets really 🤬 in direct sunlight.
Tiny hands never heard of a thing called gloves? The waste is endless.
If nothing else, he’s an “ideas man”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually comes out that a Black Paint Manufacturer lined trumps pockets with cash or crypto just before this announcement.
He doesn’t know about gloves? 🧤
Black is sliming, making it look like less of a feat
Because migrants wouldn’t own a pair of gloves?
In construction there is a lot of material sold in lengths that could be made into a very fast ladder, particularly if you had a nail gun, then a rope ladder for the other side. For that matter, there are actual ladders. The amount that wall has been oversold as fixing everything is insane.
Honestly aggressively going after employers that don't use E-verify could likely accomplish ninety percent of their stated goals, without the performative cruelty and for a fraction of the cost.
We can wreck our GDP, our soft power, just having neighbors instead of so called invaders in order to have DHS, ICE or CBC make a cheap knockoff video of Paint It Black which we will all hate bc it's racist & nasty.
So incompetent. That paint will pucker and break off in 110 degree summer temps and wash off in monsoon rain. Stupid motherfucker.
Yup- it’ll look just like the desiccated POS that commissioned it
The gloves the migrants will use to climb over it will also be black.
So we’re just posting grandpa’s brain farts now?
Apparently Trump has a donor in the paint business, and another donor in the gloves business.
It’s like sending a man to the sun: go at night.
Stupidity has no bounds.
So Maga and 47 are so clueless they failrd to realize how ineffective black paint will be after the sun goes down?
Paint it Black You Devil
