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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYamiche shares fun facts on Drumpf's wall
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Important context as Pres Trump tours Arizona & boasts about building hundreds of miles of wall: Trump has added *3 miles* of new barrier where no barrier existed before he took office.
Its taken 3.5 years & about $15 billion to replace about 180 miles of outdated fencing.
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Yamiche shares fun facts on Drumpf's wall (Original Post)
soothsayer
Jun 2020
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liberalla
(9,224 posts)1. Good to know!
I was shocked at the 200th mile boast. Way more than I thought, which turns out to be correct.
underpants
(182,626 posts)2. Says he's doing another 450 by the end of the year
Maybe it was 250. Either way.
liberalla
(9,224 posts)3. Yeah? Well if wishing made it so, he just might make it...
Thank the universe, he's very bad at accomplishing anything.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)4. Huzzah!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)5. It has cost $15 billion?
I didn't know Mexico had that kind of money to burn.
mwooldri
(10,301 posts)6. How much of that "barrier" was around the White House?
I seem to remember that they built a new "wall" there...