Based on Trump's detailed diagram of his slat wall, here is some advanced mathematics

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Based on Trump’s detailed diagram of his slat wall, here is some advanced mathematics

By Philip Bump
December 23 at 9:00 AM
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A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful!

Link to tweet

There you are. An artistic steel-slat wall.

What’s interesting about this image is not just that the zoomed-in detail (showing triangular spikes) doesn’t match the fence as shown (the top of which looks more like a picket fence). It’s not just that vertical bars are about as artistically evocative as a blank canvas. It’s that, included in the diagram, is an image of a car meant to evoke some sense of scale.

Thanks to that car, we can, in fact, estimate down to the square foot the amount of steel needed for Trump’s wall.

What are the dimensions of the barrier?

We start with the car. .... Let’s do some math.

{Snip, but you can guess.}

Philip Bump is a correspondent for The Washington Post based in New York. Before joining The Post in 2014, he led politics coverage for the Atlantic Wire. Follow https://twitter.com/pbump

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1. I had this exact thought when I saw his post!!

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2. Did I miss the link somehow? n/t

[ROB-ROX]

3. METAL PRODUCT AND METAL RUSTS

Old bone spurs wants to spend money on something which will be gone like his "bone spurs." This will be another great wall of China which was a waste of time and money......The bankrupt one knows about wasting money......