Not only new fencing but concrete barriers are going up around the White House

[highplainsdem]

Tweet with video from Al Jazeer's Chris Sheridan:

Link to tweet

The fortification of the White House continues this morning. New fencing and concrete barriers being put up at the Penn/17th street side. This is normally wide open for visitors. ⁦@PoPville #DCProtests

[Evergreen Emerald]

1. He finally gets his wall.

[FarPoint]

17. Hahahah

Yes indeed...he does now have that...

[LiberalBrooke]

2. He is getting his wall.

Now they just have to paint the concrete barriers black

[Moostache]

3. I would not surprised to see a moat go in next...

#BunkerBitch indeed.

[Yonnie3]

10. With alligators and snakes!

Sharks too?

[hatrack]

13. With FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS ON THEIR HEADS!!!!

[Mike 03]

4. Lincoln Project, Team Bloomberg, Joe Biden's ad folks all need to

get video/images of all of this. These are images of weakness and cowardice unlike most of us have ever seen in our lifetimes. These images are the epitome of a failed presidency, an unelectable president.

[Yonnie3]

5. For someone who denies he bunkered down ...

It seems Bunker Baby Don is making a bigger bunker.

[5X]

6. What is he planning that he will need a fortress to keep out the hordes?

Must be going to blow everything up.

[highplainsdem]

7. Exactly what I was wondering, and I just posted an OP about that.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213540682

[Doug.Goodall]

14. Barr and the DOJ are planing to indite members of the Obama Administration

The investigation of Trump's collusion with the Russians is going to be the anchor for political retaliation using the Justice Department. The Republicans are claiming illegal surveillance by administration officials including James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper.

Never before has one political party sought to punish members of a previous administration using the power of the Federal Government. Trump will need more than a wall if he goes forward with this plan.

[FarPoint]

18. That is a really good question!

He won't leave the Office when Biden wins...

[Arkansas Granny]

23. IMO, this is for show. He has to convince those that still support him that he is being endangered

by those lift wing loonies, communists and antifa types.

[nolabear]

8. He's gone full Kim Jung Un.

A cowardly little fascist who surrounds himself with military force and a bunker and a wall.

This is a shameful moment in American history. I hope it’s not the end of us.

[sop]

9. This is what third world, tin-pot, strongarm dictators do: put up barricades around the presidential

palace and surround themselves with army troops.

[Freethinker65]

11. Perfect commercial for Biden. "Mr. Trump, tear down this wall!"

[handmade34]

16. ...

[dalton99a]

19. Give Trump his own wall

[AllaN01Bear]

12. are they walling us out or walling him in?

points at poster 11's post
this is the peoples house , doooont you forget it.

[Hugin]

15. As I studied archaeology in college, I learned some of the indicators of a failed fallen...

civilization.

This fortification and circling-the-wagons around centers of power was probably the biggest of those indicators.

Nobody even bothered to remove them after the collapse. We were digging the barricades up hundreds or even thousands of years later.

I wonder what future civilization is going to dig these up and chuckle to themselves that it could never happen to them?

[lpbk2713]

20. Dolly Madison would have been inconsolable.

[2naSalit]

21. I wonder what would happen if instead of rushing the WH...

people all around the world started trashing the empire's properties all over the planet? Just fucking burn them all to the ground while he thinks he's safe hiding in the WH behind his wall.

[judesedit]

22. Lock him in good. We can always build another bigger better house for our real president

Times are changing. Eventually they'll get bored and leave when they're not getting any more attention. GO JOE! The original WH can be kept for historical purposes. lol

[C_U_L8R]

24. Enjoy your prison, Trump

[CanonRay]

25. Now you know he's not leaving on January 21st

He'll be hunkered in his bunker like Adolph.

[haele]

26. Umm, are those concrete barriers going to remain there?

Or even sillier, are they going to put them up on both sides to "help secure the fence"? Because they make great toehold supports or launching platforms to go over a chain link fence, even if someone puts razor wire over the fence.
In effect, those barriers just lowered that fence by about 2 1/2 ft....

Haele

[Sinistrous]

27. Those concrete barriers are sitting on

2 to 3 foot wide “shelves” that jut out from the bottom of each fence panel. The concrete blocks make it difficult / impossible to tip over the panels. There is an earlier DU post that shows these shelves.

[haele]

30. However, they're great to vault up on.

And shorten the actual height of the fence. Watched a skinny short guy get over a similar fence structure in a little more than a second or twoseconds while I was stuck in traffic before the pandemic. Concrete barrier was on the opposite side, just like the picture.
He took a good 20 ft. running start from the shoulder, jumped up high enough to get a foot on the barrier on the other side, then hauled himself over the rest of the 8 ft or so fence with ease because he pushed off the barrier.
Sure, those things can keep protesters from pulling or pushing the fence down, but anyone who's halfway in shape can get over it quickly enough not to be noticed if there's cover on the other side and a crowd to distract the riot police.

Haele

[lindysalsagal]

28. It will look even better coming down...

[Retrograde]

29. A couple of years ago I went to Oslo

still jet-lagged, I walked to a small rise near the center of town that turned out to be the royal palace, complete with king in residence. There were a few guards posted around, and a lot of open park space open to the public. The only restrictions I saw were some signs asking people not to bring charcoal grills for their picnics.

What a contrast to our own Dear Leader, who can not live outside of a tightly-controlled sphere.

(Yeah, I know Scandanavian monarchs aren't the heads of their governments, but the contrast is still telling)

[Happy Hoosier]

31. Trump is a coward.

[spanone]

32. Mexico isn't paying for that one either.

[MoonlitKnight]

33. The people should ALWAYS be able to protest

At the people’s house.

ALWAYS.

[Hortensis]

34. Looks like they can just be hauled away with TrumpCo.

If only it were November 4 and Trump was raging over that.

[Blue Owl]

35. Fatfuck von Chainlink

n/t

[Cha]

38. lol.. the things that come

out of us when reacting to that Bloated fuck.

[ecstatic]

36. It's interesting that trump really believes we'd be able to storm the

White House and drag his ass out "like a dog," as he would say.

He obviously thinks very little of the Secret Service, and if the American people are as dangerous as he imagines, that little baby fence won't do shit to protect him. I guess we'll find out in November #BunkerBitch!

[Cha]

37. Joe Biden will Remove it!