Washington – President Donald Trump is musing about putting solar panels on his proposed wall on the Mexican border.
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Trump is suggesting at a rally Wednesday evening in Iowa that a solar wall would “create energy and pay for itself.”
He then joked it would mean Mexico “will have to pay much less money” to build it. Trump claimed as a candidate that Mexico would fully fund his impenetrable border wall — a plan Mexico rejected.
Trump also suggested the panels would make the wall “beautiful” and then praised himself by saying, “Pretty good imagination, right?”
The wall, which was a signature campaign promise, has not been at the center of the White House’s agenda. Construction has not begun.
Talk, tweet, flip-flop, golf, handshake-shtick, repeat.
When I was little, I remember he renovated an ice skating rink in Central Park, super quickly. Since then, pretty much the only success he’s had in life has been marketing his image, including being a TV idiot. If we want him to actually get the wall built, just sign a licensing deal with the Trump organization for naming rights, and presto, watch it get built super-quickly, with the most expensive part being the signage, “Trump towering luxury wall”, or we can go Chinese, very modern, with “Great wall of Trump”, but then it would need to be visible from space. Huuge wall. The name “Trump” would need to be visible from space. Offer him that, and watch the wall get built in no time flat.
I think he’s intentionally holding out. I think he what he really wants is have the government pay his company to build a string of casinos along the border connected by a wall. Then he can claim Mexico is paying for it because he allows Mexicans to gamble and sin there. He can also try to get the government to by a license for the rights to name the wall and casinos Trump this and Trump that.
Why not put the coal miners back to work and build the Great Trump Wall out of coal? It would be the 9th wonder of the world, right after B&H.
“Let Mexico, I mean, the Sun, pay for the wall”
What a shmegegi we have as president
Just an excuse to electricalize the wall…
The immigrants will not try to climb the wall … they will be fried!
Zap ’em.
Good all border states can get cheap electricity from the solar panel wall and the maybe Mexico will buy some of the cheap electricity provided from the wall and that is the way Mexico will help pay for the wall. All will benefit from this wall instead of making a terrible idea it will beneficial to all.
Like a lot of what he says at his rallies, the solar panel idea probably popped into his head as he was speaking, having given it no thought as to whether it makes sense or not.
Of course, he has yet to explain how to build the wall down the middle of the Rio Grande.