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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 03:26 PM Feb 2020

Trump blames his border wall falling over on 'big winds' and claims it's fixed 'forever'

Donald Trump has blamed reports about a section of his border wall falling over on the “Fake News”, claiming in a tweet the wall fell due to “big winds” and had since been fixed “forever”.

“Last week the Fake News said that a section of our powerful, under construction, Souther Border Wall ‘fell over’”, the president wrote.

He went on to say that the media was “trying to make it sound terrible”, but “the reason was that the concrete foundation was just poured & soaking wet when big winds kicked in”.

The president also claimed the section of his long-promised border wall was “quickly fixed ‘forever’” after the incident.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-blames-border-wall-falling-172900836.html

Big winds, the kind that blow when Trump talks or when he passes gas?

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Trump blames his border wall falling over on 'big winds' and claims it's fixed 'forever' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 OP
Makes perfect sense Rorey Feb 2020 #1
Forever... Newest Reality Feb 2020 #2
"Big winds, really big winds...." MyOwnPeace Feb 2020 #3
This asshole-victim snowflake has an alibi for everything. Everything. VOX Feb 2020 #4
Only after he said it didn't happen lame54 Feb 2020 #5
Yeah, OK, Trumpty Dumpty. tanyev Feb 2020 #6
Biggly winds - LOL Disaffected Feb 2020 #7
Anyone who has been around something built by a person ramen Feb 2020 #8
Soaking wet even. Not just wet but soaking wet. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2020 #9
Sorry Chump, you just can't fight Mother Nature. Totally Tunsie Feb 2020 #10

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
1. Makes perfect sense
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 03:38 PM
Feb 2020


I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to let the foundation or footer cure before putting a structure on it.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. Forever...
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 03:39 PM
Feb 2020

Forever is a long, long, long time.

Well, for about $10 US, you are over the darn, rusty fence, but why not spend billions on it anyway because the Fuhrer Wall is appeals to the fright-filled Republicans and Evangelicals who need to feel surrounded by his Big Brother arms and Great Wall of Infamy.

So much destruction, (ecosystem, sacred sites, etc.). Such a waste. All to give a false sense of security to people who would but Lady Liberty in solitary confinement if they could. Oh, I shouldn't be giving them ideas.

It's heilarious, in a way, but that kind of money would serve higher, human priorities well.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
4. This asshole-victim snowflake has an alibi for everything. Everything.
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 03:58 PM
Feb 2020

And the idiotic “wall-fell-due-to-uncured-concrete” was only described by Trumpist spokespersons for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

With Trump, it’s ALWAYS someone/something else that’s out to to “get him.” A 24/7 victim.

Disaffected

(4,554 posts)
7. Biggly winds - LOL
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 04:15 PM
Feb 2020

The reason it blew over was that it was not braced sufficiently to keep it vertical until the concrete cured.

Even someone building a fence in their backyard knows that.....

ramen

(790 posts)
8. Anyone who has been around something built by a person
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 04:34 PM
Feb 2020

knows that nothing is fixed forever. What a goddamn lie dumpster aflame

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
9. Soaking wet even. Not just wet but soaking wet.
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 05:55 PM
Feb 2020
The maggot has an excuse for all of his fucking schemes that go wrong.
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