Racist Fascist Asshole says what? "The Great Wall of China is 13,000 Miles Long"

[TheBlackAdder]

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Donald Trump is live, saying how Mexico will pay 100% of the wall, since China was able to do it 2,000 years ago.


The wall is really 5,503 miles long.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China


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[DrDan]

1. "Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be

21,196 km (13,171 mi)."

not really something to get excited about

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Oops. RFA was right!

[mindem]

2. He can see Russia from his office too.

[VMA131Marine]

4. Actually, the Wikipedia link says 13000 miles

But that's the total of all the segments. I bet Trump got his number off the same article.

[dchill]

5. Not the 1st or 2nd time he's spewed that erroneous shitistic.

[reformist2]

6. He does have a point. We actually *can* build a wall. The question is, do we want to???

[Codeine]

7. And the horsemen of the steppe still got in.

History ain't your friend, Trumpedydoodah.

[Cleita]

8. Not only that. It failed to keep out the Mongol hordes,

which was its purpose. One even became the Chinese emperor who greeted Marco Polo, Kublai Khan.

[davidn3600]

12. Those stupid Mongolians!

[Cleita]

14. That was a funny So. Park.

[Octafish]

9. Trump plays the media like a fiddle.

Turns every question from every reporter into a chance to grandstand.

[berni_mccoy]

10. He's not incorrect. And even at 5k miles that's still

Twice as long as the US Mexico border. You won't win on this argument. You win by pointing out that this isn't 200 bc

[Arazi]

11. What's crazy is thinking the Great Wall of China was a deterrent

if someone wanted to scale it, they could.

It's history shows it was effective in repelling great military forces but not individuals exploiting chinks which is exactly what a wall with Mexico would be

[Cleita]

15. Also, they had no problem going around it. eom

[Mnpaul]

13. But how much grain does it hold?

Paging Dr. Ben