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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Boasts of 'Beautiful' Border Wall: Not Concrete But 'Artistically Designed Steel Slats'
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Save us billions of dollars a month once completed?
https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-boasts-of-beautiful-border-wall-not-concrete-but-artistically-designed-steel-slats/
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Trump Boasts of 'Beautiful' Border Wall: Not Concrete But 'Artistically Designed Steel Slats' (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Dec 2018
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. But, how can it be beautiful without the gold leaf?
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)2. I don't think he's learned any new skills since he was
a sleazy real estate developer.
Same sales talk, same self promotion, same lies.
Watch "Trump: an American Dream" streaming on Netflix and you'll see the same guy from age 28. Learned it all from daddy and Roy Cohn.
And c'mon: BILLIONS of dollars a month????
C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)3. So who's the steel honcho giving kickbacks on this one?
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)8. An oligarch-owned, all-American company called EVRAZ North America
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)13. Lots of nice Irish names, I see.
And "billions of dollars a month"? That number is so far fetched it even makes HIM look ridiculous.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)4. It's a special see-through kind of steel
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)5. Doesn't Trump buy steel from China for his buildings?
panader0
(25,816 posts)6. This happens daily in Nogales:
Stuart G
(38,420 posts)7. So at 7pm...last eve..he starts in with "THE WALL"....
Doesn't this fellow have better things to do? At 7:pm in the evening? About a "Wall" that will never get built.
....
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)9. He's going to become an expert on steel slats soon. n/t
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)10. no wall just the same steel fence we have been using for years...
Goodheart
(5,321 posts)11. I guess "We will build a FENCE and Mexico is going to pay for it!" just didn't have the same ring
to bellow out to his fellow-stupids at his rallies.
Blue Owl
(50,352 posts)12. Get used to the look of stainless steel, trump
n/t
Vinca
(50,269 posts)14. Translation for the rubes: it's a fence. The same fence that has always been there.