There is a Gofundme for Trump's border-wall.

[DetlefK]

Last edited Wed Dec 19, 2018, 12:23 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall




Let's do the math:

The US has roughly 300 million citizens.
Out of those, roughly 200 are adults.
Out of those, roughly 100 million are Republicans.

The Gofundme has a goal of $1,000,000,000. That's $10 per donor, if everybody chips in, right?

The Gofundme-page has been forwarded on social media roughly 100,000 times, netting them roughly 7000 donors. By that ratio, 7% of people who hear of this Gofundme actually donate. That's 7 million people.

Divided by 7,000,000 that's on average $143 per donor.

On a crank-project.

Outside of an election-year.

And no mega-donor is stupid enough to attach themselves to Trump at this point.






EDIT:
We are now at $600,000 and 10,000 donors. $60 per donor. Far short of the $143 per donor.
And the number of donors per number of people reached by social media is constant at 7%.

[The Figment]

1. Unbelievable

That 6800 people have donated almost $420,000 (as of 4am Wednesday)!
They are gonna hate it when they find out that it still won't get their dumbass wall built and that the Drump administration spent the money on something else!

[Luz]

5. It'll never reach trump. Someone just got rich off of fools.

[The Figment]

12. That thought crossed my mind as well. Nt

[LuckyCharms]

2. holy shit

[beachbum bob]

3. I have no problem if people want to donate to build a border wall

as long as they know they may never see anything come about.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. A telethon. That's what he needs.

[thinkingagain]

7. Or they could do some

Bake sales😉

[Achilleaze]

6. How much has Mexico kicked in so far?

[Fullduplexxx]

8. I wish i thought of that ... soak the rubes

[Sanity Claws]

9. Do they accept thoughts and prayers?

I wouldn't even do that for Trump and his fucking wall.

[davsand]

19. I was thinking I could kick in a breath mint with fuzz stuck to it.

That's about as much as I can manage.





Laura

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. I wonder if that $5 billion includes the cost

of the Metallic Gold RustOleum to paint it with. After all, Rump keeps referring to it as a "big, beautiful" wall and we know what his idea of "beautiful" is.

If the cost isn't included in his estimate, the cost overruns could be horrific.

[Renew Deal]

11. Has it been sent to Mexico yet?

[Kaleva]

13. It's raised close to half a million in 2 days.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. 0.002%!

Almost there! So much winning.

[Kaleva]

15. It's basically a scam to defraud people out of their money

Even if the victims are Trump supporters.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Not Seeing The Downside

Then wait until they get to April and that tax refund is 80% of what they expected. Bonus!

[Control-Z]

17. If they don't come up with the amount stated

by the date stated he won't get to keep any of the money. This could be fun! Them's the rules.

[LisaL]

23. That's not accurate for gofundme.

[MineralMan]

18. I suggested this yesterday:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142226118#post30

[MiniMe]

20. How do you send thoughts and prayers?

Does Gofundme accept that?

[Sunsky]

21. I can't believe this

People are actually giving their hard earned money to this scam. I thought Mexico was going to pay for the wall. Oh well, someone is almost a million dollars richer. Continue...

[NastyRiffraff]

22. Trump's base is stupid enough to donate

Their dumbness cannot be underestimated. But, fine, go ahead, Deplorables. Give your money to a lost cause, but then don't whine that you can't feed or clothe your children.

[912gdm]

24. oh lord.

Now they are admitting that the govt. can't take the donations, but they are going to build the wall themselves.


They have an 'advisory' board with Erik Prince, kris Kobach, and David Clarke.

What a neat new revenue stream.