"We Are Governed By The Dumbest People In America": Kristi Noem Announced Trump's Plan To Paint The Border Wall Black, And People Have A LOT Of Thoughts

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem precocious announced the Trump administration's latest genius plan: coating the full confederate borderline partition achromatic to deter immigration.

At a Tuesday press conference successful Santa Teresa, New Mexico, she praised the wall, saying "It’s tall, which makes it very, precise hard to climb, astir impossible. It besides goes heavy into the ground, which would marque it precise difficult, if not impossible, to excavation under. And contiguous we are besides going to beryllium coating it black."

Unsurprisingly, Kristi credited Donald Trump for the agleam idea. "That is specifically astatine the petition of the president, who understands that successful the blistery temperatures down here, erstwhile thing is painted black, it gets adjacent warmer, and it volition marque it adjacent harder for radical to climb."

For a fewer moments, she adjacent painted the partition with a roller.

Notably, she failed to notation the outgo of this project, though CNN reported that the "Big, Beautiful Bill" dedicated astir $46.5 cardinal to modernizing the border. The outlet besides noted that this isn't the archetypal clip Trump has shown involvement successful coating the partition black. During his archetypal term, helium brought it up galore times and ordered sections test-painted, with officials reportedly saying it was "largely being done to placate the president." In 2020, the outgo was estimated astatine $1.2 cardinal per mile — who knows what it would outgo present with prices these days.

Naturally, radical person a batch to accidental astir each this:

Responses were included from Reddit threads here and here, arsenic good arsenic X (formerly Twitter).

One idiosyncratic wrote, "They cognize determination is nary prima astatine night, right?"

Another said, "Tracks with this administration. Everything is conscionable overgarment metaphorically. Hair, makeup, policy, unit deployment domestically, history, education, religion. All they bash is effort to overgarment implicit the atrocious radical that they are."

"Trump wants to overgarment 1300 miles of borderline partition black.. truthful it volition beryllium excessively blistery to touch. Estimated to outgo $2.7 billion. The estimated outgo of gloves for illegals: $5.00 a pair. History volition grounds this clip arsenic the Dumbest of All Ages.."

"The brainsick happening is that contempt this costing virtually billions of dollars; they person the wealth for it! That’s right, Congress decided to chopped funding for benefits for Americans and alternatively springiness CBP billions for the borderline wall, which they’ll present usage to overgarment the happening black."

"The clown car of idiots ne'er fails to impressment with the level of anserine they amusement each azygous day."

"Noem forgot to accidental Trump volition marque Mexico wage for the paint."

"Fun Fact: Painting the full 1,300-mile U.S.-Mexico borderline partition achromatic could outgo $2.72 BILLION. We are governed by the dumbest radical successful America."

"This is definite to marque market prices spell down. Release the Trump Epstein files."

And finally, "They truly are conscionable taking tips from Wile E. Coyote."

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