Trump only builds the BESTEST walls...

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
62,678
11,018
136

EL CENTRO, Calif. – Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds Wednesday, landing on trees on the Mexico side of the border.

The area is part of an ongoing construction project to improve existing sections of the wall.

Ad

Agent Carlos Pitones of the Customs and Border Patrol sector in El Centro, California, told CNN that the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.
 
  • Haha
  • Like
Reactions: Leeea and Pohemi

tweaker2

Lifer
Aug 5, 2000
14,475
6,896
136
It's either the lowest bidder got the job and what followed is what's expected of that kind of shoddy work OR the highest bidder got the job who is most certainly connected to Trump in one corrupt way or another under the "share the wealth" tradition that our corrupt politicos and business folks have practiced over the decades that will again result in shoddy work due to their efforts to maximize profits.

Either way, us taxpayers end up holding the bag and end up paying for repairs or rebuilds that will of course be shoddy work that we will forever be paying to maintain, repair or rebuild with more shoddy work.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
110,511
29,091
146
It's either the lowest bidder got the job and what followed is what's expected of that kind of shoddy work OR the highest bidder got the job who is most certainly connected to Trump in one corrupt way or another under the "share the wealth" tradition that our corrupt politicos and business folks have practiced over the decades that will again result in shoddy work due to their efforts to maximize profits.

Either way, us taxpayers end up holding the bag and end up paying for repairs or rebuilds that will of course be shoddy work that we will forever be paying to maintain, repair or rebuild with more shoddy work.

I uh...wouldn't put it past anything for large parts of the wall just being DPRK-style fake storefronts (basically a cheap set on an old Western, facade only) for press shots and/or, tbf, to confuse Orange Julius into thinking something is actually happening down there.

lol. imagine. large sections are just painted plywood for photo ops.
 

sandorski

No Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
70,085
5,618
126
I uh...wouldn't put it past anything for large parts of the wall just being DPRK-style fake storefronts (basically a cheap set on an old Western, facade only) for press shots and/or, tbf, to confuse Orange Julius into thinking something is actually happening down there.

lol. imagine. large sections are just painted plywood for photo ops.

It worked in Blazing Saddles...or was that the 3 Amigos?
 
  • Like
Reactions: FaaR

Jon-T

Senior member
Jun 5, 2011
472
274
136
It's either the lowest bidder got the job and what followed is what's expected of that kind of shoddy work OR the highest bidder got the job who is most certainly connected to Trump in one corrupt way or another under the "share the wealth" tradition that our corrupt politicos and business folks have practiced over the decades that will again result in shoddy work due to their efforts to maximize profits.

Either way, us taxpayers end up holding the bag and end up paying for repairs or rebuilds that will of course be shoddy work that we will forever be paying to maintain, repair or rebuild with more shoddy work.

Of you could just read the linked article where it says.

told CNN that the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured,
 

UNCjigga

Lifer
Dec 12, 2000
24,800
9,002
136
So America paid for it, and Mexico got some free wall?

Only the best deals. So much winning.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Leeea

dawp

Lifer
Jul 2, 2005
11,345
2,705
136
not sure how that's supposed to help with the argument that the builder was competent.
yup, sounds like the foundation wasn't deep enough, once it set it should have held in a brisk wind.

curing can take several weeks.
 
  • Like
Reactions: DarthKyrie

BonzaiDuck

Lifer
Jun 30, 2004
15,699
1,448
126
Hmm. Sounds like shoddy work of a construction project. What else would you expect from Trump the real-estate and construction huckster, who cheated his workers? Maybe some of his buildings are merely accidents waiting to happen.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Pohemi

Homerboy

Lifer
Mar 1, 2000
30,856
4,974
126
Meh - foundation was still curing and the high winds toppled the wall. It's really more of a "shitty contractor" that didn't properly brace the wall etc
This isn't a "Trump problem" per se. But it is entertaining to see anything of his fail and collapse regardless of the cause.
#fucktrump
 

K1052

Elite Member
Aug 21, 2003
45,884
32,668
136
This is oddly one of the few times I'm rooting for government construction contracts to be executed so poorly that is all falls apart in a few years time.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Homerboy

VRAMdemon

Diamond Member
Aug 16, 2012
6,447
7,615
136
I think i found the issue

View attachment 16456

One wonders how such a thing could have happened:

President Trump has personally and repeatedly urged the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a border wall contract to a North Dakota construction firm whose top executive is a GOP donor and frequent guest on Fox News, according to four administration officials..

Oh. Never mind...

It fell onto the Mexican side. That swatting feature just needs a little calibrating.