Hold on, hold the fuck on… the Trump administration is spending $500 million taxpayer dollars to paint OUR side of the border wall black? The wall HE said MEXICO was going to pay for? That wall? But we “can’t afford” pediatric cancer research?!?
Hold on, hold the fuck on… the Trump administration is spending $500 million taxpayer dollars to paint OUR side of the border wall black? The wall HE said MEXICO was going to pay for? That wall? But we “can’t afford” pediatric cancer research?!?
He wants to make it too hot to touch. Apparently he doesn’t know which side of the fence the sun shines on.
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.
Here is Arizona - most of the roofing is done in the heat of summer 110 plus degrees...They wear gloves...are almost all are Hispanic... They spend an entire day on the roof... If you think painting is more than performance art you are wrong...The wall is POINTLESS... Drug dealers are creative.
Question I have is which fam-er um company has got too much black paint to unload- like that concrete deal Trump had back in the 70s
I’m surprised he’s not having it painted gold.
To keep all of us from escaping. Bare metal baking in the sun isn't hot enough? The black paint will absorb all of the heat form the moon, stars, and distant galaxies. He obviously knows more about paint than anyone ever.
Maybe so WE can’t escape!
It's time to stop paying federal taxes. They can't put us all in Martha Stewart prison, right?
The End of American Science. The beginning of quack cures with RFK Jr and Dr Oz deciding what we are to believe. 🙃
Wondering when Dr Oz will start pushing his miracle diet pills using government communications. 🙃
Worse he will be pushing all of Medicare to be under the private insurance advantage programs. This is where most of the fraud is. And instead of dealing with the government you will be totally under the control of the insurance companies (and we all know how that works)
Trump does things just for media attention. It’s #TheTrumpShow. Did Trump and his wacky people ever consider ladders, tunnels, gloves to climb the wall, climbing at night so the wall isn’t hot?? And Mexico never paid for Trump’s janky wall. They just keep believing Trump.
The wall is only being painted black on the US side. It’s money laundering through the US Treasury. Any senator who isn’t corrupt ought to be stopping it. Congress never authorized funds for that. @gallego.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @padilla.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov
Gloves? So gloves are “woke” now.
Help me make sense of this meaningless expenditure of tax dollars. They are painting the U.S. side of the wall to make it uncomfortable for people to climb back to Mexico?
They don't want us escaping either, I guess.
Immigrant population is down 1.5 million this year and we are just a little over a half year gone. 1.5 million which means a big chunk of the work force doing jobs that nobody else wants. Folks don’t want to live (or visit) this country anymore.
Agree on all you said, but if that figure came from the Spite House, I don't believe it! We'll see how happy the magats are when their quart of strawberries costs $20... 😁
They will blame Joe Biden.
Isn't it amazing how Biden can be simultaneously "Sleepy" and devious? Greedy magats. They wanna have their cake and eat it too!
They are more gullible and stupid as they believe everything that the Orange Melon Felon and Fox Propaganda tells them.
Agree. And as a whole, I think that makes them even more frightening than their Orange Messiah. They Walk Among. Us.
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Trump is blowing through money like a dementia patient who can’t remember what they spent yesterday.
That’s 2 out of 3 squares filled on my fraud, waste and abuse bingo card.
It's okay. We'll recoup that money by cutting off food & medical care to the poor & elderly. Of course, there's the billion dollars to retrofit Trump's gift jet, 200 million dollars for a White House ballroom. 40 million for a birthday parade, tens of billions spent on masked vigilantes...
MAGA ain't exactly students of science
So..what about night time? These fucking idiots.
The people’s money in the treasury is trumps private wallet too do what ever he wants. Where do you think the money for the grand ballroom is coming from?
I thought he hated that color?
He can only paint the side of the U.S.
He can only paint the side of the U.S.
Also, why does it cost $500 million just to paint it black?
Kickbacks, of course
See, what gets me is that 40% of Americans apparently still support him and whatever is going on. Source: www.economist.com/interactive/...
Yep, his people still don't get the grift.
Will the black paint have the ability to retain heat in winter? You know, like how solar power works?
The side that’s being painted… as if they’re gonna climb TO Mexico 🤦🏻♂️
It may not be long until we do.
Mexico is doing their due diligence and not allowing anyone to book one way travel into the country. You have to show proof of return or proof of moving on to another country…
Priorities
Yes. That is correct.
$500 million on a paint job yet Medicaid needed to be cut???
$500 million for a paint job but we can't afford Snap???
It's like we could house the homeless, ooor paint half a fence black.
Maybe it's time we give trump a gift and tell him he has a big penis.
The administration will do any and every thing possible to make life in the US harder for melanated people and people who happen to be white. This is the most blatantly racist administration and president ever. They and their followers should go back to Europe
The labor cost to apply roll-on paint $$$$. WTF? I don’t think it needs to be painted. It’s already an eyesore. If it is painted, spray the damn thing. It’s all going to rust anyway. Also it’s an environmental impact for animals that need to get water.
But think of the bang for the buck that Kristi Noem brought with her signature cosplaying moves for the photos of her helping paint some black. Color: Cruel and Unusual Black or was it Hotter’n Hell Black? Or FOTUS’s fave: Nefarious Black?
Sooo...during the winter, as the sun moves lower on the horizon, large swaths of the blackened northern side will be in shadow, yes? Or is that too much astronomy for the GOP?
Wait. What good does it do to paint OUR side of the wall black? Climbers go up the Mexican side using ladders. Carrying a rope. And once at the top, rappel down the rope on our side. They don't need to touch the wall. Except with their boots.
It was water paint.
Just guessing here, but normally a structure like cockwomble’s wall/ fence, would require contractor access on both sides. I would not be surprised if it is built well on US soil, with right-of-way on both sides
I heard Mexico is painting murals on their side.
The black paint will only make it about 3 degrees hotter than bare metal.
Doing the math… that’s $166.6666 (repeating) million per degree Fahrenheit. Hey wait a tick. That’s a lot of consecutive 666s. Coincidence?
Love it. Does this account for it being the north (non-sun) side?
Exactly! But it was a photo op for dress up bimbo to play official border patrol
Find out which of Trump cronies is getting this contact.
Somewhere out there, a Republican is arguing dead children are just “collateral damage” and nowhere near as important as keeping PoC out of our once great nation.
Only for it to be climbable at night. You know, because dark.
Gloves work during the day. Do they have those in Mexico?
Ropes too. Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a wall a rope can conquer.
Or a ladder. Do they have ladders in Mexico?? 😉
If not, they can always have one sent from a Home Depot.
Bottom line. Our side of that border wall has colorful graffiti that tells a story that Trump wants to cover with black paint.
Who is making the 500 million?
Black paint is supposed to make the wall harder to climb, and since it is on our side, he must be anticipating Americans trying to escape to Mexico.
Painting on rusty un primed steel in the fucking desert. It'll last weeks. Also... FOLLOW THE FUCKING MONEY. Someone is getting rich off of this
Trump is a liar and a sociopath.
Live Mexicans. Bad Dead children. Good Vote in a sociopathic narcissist. 🤦♀️
Build a border fence: $20 billion Paint the fence black: $500 million Scale the wall at night: Priceless
Guess when it’s black this won’t work anymore. Wait for the end… 🤣🤣🤣 youtube.com/shorts/XOqNA...
I imagine that's when it sees the most traffic anywho. 😹
Lol
Bet the Mexicans can repaint it for next to nothing by dumping white paint over the wall. $500 million? GFOH
The Trump kids would steal it.
And is he trying to keep Americans in then? Make it make sense. 🤷♀️
The goal is to make it harder to climb out of the US?
He's painting the North side, the dark side, the cool side!?????
that doesn't even "need" to be painted
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The black paint does nothing, nothing, NOTHING! Walls are stupid!! Walls are expensive and really stupid!
They can't put us in for-profit prisons if we're able to climb our way into Mexico.
Can some taggers go down there at night and paint this side. FUCK DRUMPF!!!!
Its ironic because he personally never paid a painter in his life
Wait until you hear about the ballroom
He knows everyone is going to hate his version of America and want out. So, that wall will trap us inside. Walls around countries have also been used to trap people inside. He has to know how much most of us hate his guts.
This is so classic Trump... he's going to paint the US side black.... as if no one else owns paint.... or a ladder.... Also the fence is on US land b/c the border in TX is a water boundary.... so they're already on US soil when they climb it.
Or I guess the fact I didn't mention was that the black paint is on the wrong side.
So the US side (north) will be black, but the south side (Mexico) will be in the direct sun?🌞🤔
And we are handing him $500 million personally in the form of a gift plane as he walks out the door. No strings attached.
Betcha most of that money isn't going toward that wall at all. It'll find its way somewhere ELSE, and here's a hint where: NOT you.
His still unfinished wall that never worked as designed.
This is stupid anyway. If you're looking to use sizzling heat on the wall to deter immigration, wouldn't you put it on the other side anyhow?
If he says it cost 500mil, it’s probably 100mil and he is pocketing the rest. The regime is filled with thieves and bullies.
It's easy for him to do cuz it ain't HIS money. His m.o. is using OPM.
efficiency
Just tell him we painted it camouflage and that's why he can't see it
So- no money for pediatric cancer research, but $500 million to paint a freaking wall; now that- is the real Trump Derangement Syndrome! Lock him up and put him in a straitjacket
Exactly- Trump gets more disgusting and disgraceful every day
The contract is probably with the "Steve Bannon Wall Painting" company.
Not just a huge waste of money but also stupid. The US is on the north side of the border. The sun shines from the south so painting the north side is also a waste of paint. Apparently this knowledge is not known by the Trump administration. Maybe somebody should tell them.
The painting of the fence was surreal.
It's the only side they can reach without straying into Mexico. A common problem when someone doesn't get on with their neighbours.
Honest to god - I want to know at what point those of us who did not vote for this can refuse to pay federal taxes? Trump is essentially taking money approved for Americans to use for his own power and retribution.
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@jojofromjerz.bsky.social I'm sorry but still assuming that this guy isn't working for the enemy is just plain stupid credulity.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
He’s getting a cut somehow
First of all metal will heat in the sun anyways, second there is a period called night, third there are things called insulated gloves. Etc. This is 3rd grade level smarts with this administration
Think about the idiocy even further: They want to paint it black so it gets hot… on the northern shady American side of the wall. Not on the sunny southern facing side. It’s all for show & Noem said she “used the paint you told me to use” aka HIS supplier buddy who just got a massive paint order.
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Follow the money. Probably about $20 million of that might actually go toward paint, while the other $480 million goes right into the pocket of a billionaire buddy who funnel half of that right back into Trumps fake crypto
It's doubtless just another way to funnel taxpayer money to his malignant offspring: Beavis, Butthead, and the daughter tRump wants to fuck.
Yes, but more importantly, the transgender mice don't get that money either. You have to look at the big picture...
Well, it would appear trump only cares about kids he can fuck and dispose of. He just doesn't care who dies of cancer. Especially kids he can't fuck. Look what he did to his own nephew.
Two coats! He should do a "Tom Sawyer" and get Magamen to pay him to paint it.
Think of all the undocumented immigrants he’ll use to paint it - then deport them. 🤨
At least it’s not white.🙄
I don’t understand why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social aren’t exposing these grifters! JD Vance co. is buying farmland after tanking farms through tariffs, etc was that the short term pain they promised their voters while they rob & enrich themselves?!
Their priorities are screws up! I think that is his way of fattening the pockets of whoever is going to paint the wall!
Imagine flexing a goth wall while telling sick kids the budget ran out... He is such a cruel turd!... 😑
Black paint is extremely expensive, clearly.
Just be happy it’s not gold leaf …
And now I am hoping no one gives him the idea.
Well. Black paint that won't peel immediately, yeah, haha.
BTW, wasn't joking on that. Hubs paints cars. Black isn't one of the more expensive colors, but that doesn't mean it's cheap in the quantity they would need for this!
This kind of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse is why Americans can’t have nice things Did they never hear of nighttime or gloves either Maybe trying to keep Americans on this side of the wall to deprive us some more
pretty much.
It’s the same strategy Putin used to transfer public money to Oligarchs.
Is he trying to keep us from escaping the hellhole he’s creating?
Simple translation " 1 million to paint it , and 499 million dissapears into the pocket of Orangino "
this whole gdam regime is a waste of tax payers money. i demand a refund
Just another promo for the new Spinal Tap movie.
Gotta stop those Americans illegally entering Mexico for a better life.
MEXCIO PAYS? WELL IN FACT - US TAXPAYER GETS SHELLACKED ~ BURMA-GRAM
Trump non ha alcun interesse per i bambini con cui non può fare sesso.🤷🏼♂️
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I wonder what's the real amount spent on the stupid paint job, and how much is being diverted elsewhere?
It's not even logical. Does he think people who are repatriating to Mexico should be burned for their choice? But people still trying to hoist themselves into the USA over the fence get the cool part?
Unless trump wants border crossers to climb the fence from the US side to return southward, that black paint on our side isn't going to deter anyone day or night...
yep...and m@ga doesn't even care that 🍊 lied about mexico paying for the wall now just wait until we get flooded with videos showing how much of a waste the black paint is and m@ga will be the first to complain when there's no more medicaid
Meals on wheels cost us 664 million. But apparently feeding people is a waste of tax dollars. SMFH
All this bull shit on our dime . Are you ok with all the waste of our tax dollars ? I know I am not
they’re getting embezzlement euphoria. Gross
So he wants to keep Americans from leaving.
AND Guess what you get to pay for America da wall... ya knooooow da 1 Mecixo paid for 🙄 www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
If it was not so serious it would be funny how fascists prove over and over again that the reason they do not do well in a meritocracy and do not get the jobs they want is not DEI. It is their mediocre, subpar, almost adequate but not skill set and intelligence. They suck.
USA: *pays out $500 million to paint fence black* Mexico: *paints other side of fence with murals, hands out $5 pairs of gloves, sponsors races to shinny up over fence* In your face, Orange Florida Man...
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tagger's love a dark background
The most expensive paint job in human history.
Hey, the Board President of Rustoleum contributed a cool million to his campaign ..so..it all works out..🙃
How much will the mirrors, to reflect the sunlight onto the dark side, cost?
ya ,well,,?idk.
Gee I hope they don't use gloves to climb. 😄
Is it his intention to keep us from escaping? Cause the Mexicans can just paint their side white… White paint is cheaper, & it lasts longer than black does before oxidation reduces it to effectively neutral gray.
And our side is the north side which doesn’t get much direct sunlight. That’s not going to do much.
we "can't afford" it because it doesn't help the extremists be racist.
Guess when it’s black this won’t work anymore. Wait for the end… 🤣🤣🤣 youtube.com/shorts/XOqNA...
But its on USA side so are they stopping them from leaving 🤔😂😂
That's for us, to stop us from escaping. He knows the hellscape he envisions for America is going to make everyone want to leave. The paint on our side is to burn our hands if we try to escape.
What a waste of our money
Are people trying to escape to Mexico??
And the immigrants will buy gloves or they will cross at night. They are way smarter than Kristi and her king.
It's all contractor fraud, ways to make himself richer. The guillotine can't be sharp enough.
What will it matter if OUR side is black and hotter - won’t the illegals ALREADY have scaled the fence?? If you were going to climb a fence to sneak into a country, would you do it in broad daylight, or would you wait until darkness helped you escape detection?? These people are complete idiots!! 😡
Yeah, didn't you know that metal, exposed to the sun, won't burn your hands, but it will if you paint it black. 🙄 /s
Yes and fuck Trump and all that stand with him !
Follow the money...see who benefits from the 'painting' contracts. You'll see this is just another grift.
Hey, it's not his fault his pals stole all the money! /maga www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
Don't forget the $200 million for the tasteless ballroom and the nearly $1 billion for the new air farce one conversion. But still no money for health care.
Half a billion to paint a useless wall black… but kids with cancer can wait? 44 million Americans can choke on bread crusts & broken healthcare? Congrats, humans you’ve officially hit clown level budgeting. 🐾😾
The $500 million are the new and inventive "make government contract work" ways set up by Project 2025 and MAGA to filch and rob the Treasury for cronies Oh, and with all the other projects, it's going to be 20.000 times (or $10 trillion) more than that THE MOST CORRUPT REGIME EVER
Yep. Does this surprise anyone? Evil is as evil does. Trump frightens Satan!
Right?! I swear the only reason the grim reaper hasn't gotten to him yet is even he is afraid of the evil that emanates from Donnie's soul. He's that evil.
It's animal cruelty to feed that kinda shit to gators...
The amount of cholesterol Trump is bound to have would kill any living creature, just not him. He's that toxic. Even the cholesterol doesn't want to kill him and be trapped in there.
Lol 😂😂
I bet Satan groans every time Trump has another birthday, dreading when the fucker finally arrives and takes over.
you mean pootin?⛓️🤡👹⛓️🔒
Who is painting it? Jared Kushner? MAGA will be paying . Their great grandchildren will be paying the debt. Trump is destroying America. WTF is Republicans and the Supreme Court? FFS
Let me guess, a buddy of his has the contract to paint the wall
Surely the Mexican side catches the sun?
Our side? So nobody leaves?
That wall is an environmental disaster.
The black will go well with the national mood.
So that it is hot during the day. So that no one can return over the wall to Mexico. During the day. Does nothing to prevent someone from going over the wall from Mexico. At night.
Or healthcare for the poor, disabled or aged. Asshole!!
And he's probably hiring Hispanics to do it
The 🍊💩 don’t know 💩. Except to waste taxpayer money. Is this lame attempt at artistry DOGE approved?
That’s some bs. The painting of the wall is supposed to make it harder to climb. Is there a surge of US citizens trying to escape to Mexico?
Not quite yet. Makes me wonder what MAGA/Trump have planned that we will want out that bad.
Probably, and if not now, soon.
Basic black is a good backdrop for graffiti.
These are all methods of stealing cash from the govt. pay offs, unaccounted for $, giving money to private groups in exchange for favors.
The sun doesn't shine on the nortb side.
Be thankful he's not filling the wall with a mural of his fkn face.
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Poor dead children are just a nuance to him.
So i think you might be the first to mention that they are painting OUR SIDE of the wall!! That's hilarious! Your tax dollars at work!
According to these republican mofos when it comes to sadistic so called preventive measures there is no limit on it s cost.
Pretty sure it would be both sides.
Who got the contract?
Or food for kids.
Disgusting excuse for a man
He’s a liar. His thoughts are flat like a pancake. Two dimensional reality
The NORTH FACING SIDE. The side that NEVER SEES THE SUN. They’re painting THAT side black, to make it HOTTER? In an unrelated note, can I claim asylum in Canada, if my government should be taken over by a rabble of psychotic dingbats?!?
It is the biggest waste of money…which some donor will happen to get the contract
Also, doesn't it get cold at night? So the wall will be cold, no?
It's going to be peeling off by year end.
It's ridiculous. The U.S. side mostly faces north. It doesn't get direct sun and the paint won't make it substantially hotter. Anyone determined to cross will find a way. It's a way for Trump to give big contracts to his buddies and generous "donors". How is blank paint going to stop this?
Yes, the side that faces north and faces away from the sun.
Maybe they can paint it white in the winter to make it colder.
I don't understand how it costs 2.8 million ish dollars a mile for black paint. Someone's grifting nicely off this project. Check Border Barbie's pockets.
They really do think that immigrants coming over the border, who went through hell and high water to get that far, aren't resourceful enough dumb to think of using gloves or climbing at night? Clearly, Trump and Noem are too dumb to think of it--and now they are stuck with doubling down.
Apparently no one in current administration understands how gloves work….
I swear he has marbles in his skull.
You can bet that Marge bought shares in that paint company the day before.
But you see the black paint will make the metal hotter. Even though they are painting the north side. The incompetence is breathtaking.
Not to mention all the other money he’s spending in the White House.What is the budget for the president spending like a drunken sailor is there one.
Hire a crew of Mexicans to paint it. It would only cost $50 million and will be finished in a few weeks. Somebody is making a mint off this contract.
The wall was ugly and needs to be purty for gop photo ops.. Yes, I 'm kidding, it's a ridiculous waste of money .
He took SNAP away. Kids are going hungry.