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LilElf70

(1,348 posts)
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 02:14 AM Aug 2025

DHS Secretary says entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop people from climbing it.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/articles/dhs-secretary-says-entire-southern-002106684.html

The stupid just keeps getting worse. Trump and Noem agree to paint the wall black? Has no one informed them that there are many ways to get around a wall? All the millions of gallons of paint wasted on tax payers dollars? WTF is wrong with these idiots? So it appears, they want to spend the money on paint, not Medicaid. Unbelievable.

We are desperately in need of people in the White House that actually have a brain. This shit has to stop.

And again, I sit here and just shake my head, and wonder what's next..

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“That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally,” Noem said.
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DHS Secretary says entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop people from climbing it. (Original Post) LilElf70 Aug 2025 OP
sounds so very Christian Skittles Aug 2025 #1
I thought it was an Onion article when I first read the OP title. riversedge Aug 2025 #2
I honestly don't know how The Onion can compete with Trump.2 Skittles Aug 2025 #16
It's why Ringling Bros. closed down in 2017--- lastlib Aug 2025 #18
Also: "Homeland Security will be getting about $46 billion to complete the wall "....... riversedge Aug 2025 #3
More money for Noem'a personal use. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #21
Dotard said he completed the wall Norrrm Aug 2025 #29
This is surreal angrychair Aug 2025 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author WestMichRad Aug 2025 #5
Monumental Waste Of Money JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #6
Money is no object for what they want. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #23
Yup, that'll fix it. Then everybody can go home. Buddyzbuddy Aug 2025 #7
Look at the bright side.... IcyPeas Aug 2025 #8
Build a 20 foot wall, BidenRocks Aug 2025 #9
Paint it black WestMichRad Aug 2025 #10
Glad I checked H2O Man Aug 2025 #35
Oh, 'the president understands', does he? What a GENIUS, I mean, WHO KNEW?!? AZJonnie Aug 2025 #11
Next up... nighttime wall climbing reaches peak levels... Layzeebeaver Aug 2025 #12
No, see, the black fence is invisible at night! They won't be able to find it! tanyev Aug 2025 #27
Oh that's good! Layzeebeaver Aug 2025 #32
Krasnov said 0 illegal crossings kkmarie Aug 2025 #13
Another idea from this admin that sounds like an idea from a 4th grader rpannier Aug 2025 #14
Desperate attempt to prove Mango Mussolini doesn't hate "all blacks" JT45242 Aug 2025 #15
Paint it black... Godot51 Aug 2025 #17
Next he'll be telling us that Mexico will paint the south side....... lastlib Aug 2025 #19
...and pay for it. GoodRaisin Aug 2025 #33
"to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally," Noem said. llmart Aug 2025 #20
That's an insult to the rocks! mwmisses4289 Aug 2025 #40
These are people who come here and work in the hot sun all day, bent over picking our crops... llmart Aug 2025 #22
I have no idea LilElf70 Aug 2025 #25
What heats up fast also cools quickly. yellowcanine Aug 2025 #24
Someone should ask this dipshit just how many people actually climb GoCubsGo Aug 2025 #26
Proving once again that this is all a big scam Arazi Aug 2025 #28
Mexican side??? jonstl08 Aug 2025 #30
They'll just hire Mexicans to do the Mexican side ... haele Aug 2025 #36
Yhis is supposed to make it harder to climb? How? Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 #31
MaddowBlog-With black paint on border barriers, Trump and Noem are repeating a familiar mistake LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 #34
I can hear Raygun now: moondust Aug 2025 #37
Is this the same stupid "wall" that is more like a fence, mwmisses4289 Aug 2025 #38
Is anyone actually climbing the wall? Beaverhausen Aug 2025 #39
LOL-Noem can only paint one side of this fence and Mexico is having fun painting the other side LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 #41
This makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 #42

lastlib

(27,433 posts)
18. It's why Ringling Bros. closed down in 2017---
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 04:36 AM
Aug 2025

they couldn't compete with the tRump circus.......

riversedge

(79,213 posts)
3. Also: "Homeland Security will be getting about $46 billion to complete the wall ".......
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 02:32 AM
Aug 2025

I can think of LOTS of things--like food, shelter, schools, bridges, roads --for the needy of this country, that this money could be better used for!!


.........During Trump's first term, building the wall was a central focus of his hardline immigration policy. During his second term, his mass deportation agenda with arrests in the interior of the country has been the main focus, but Homeland Security will be getting about $46 billion to complete the wall as part of new funding passed by Congress this summer.

Noem said they have been building about a half mile of barrier every day.
..........

Norrrm

(3,883 posts)
29. Dotard said he completed the wall
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 07:07 AM
Aug 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/fact-check-trump-announcement-speech-2024

Fact check: 20 false and misleading claims Trump made in his announcement speech

“We built the wall, and now we will add to it. Now, we built the wall – we completed the wall – and then we said let’s do more, and we did a lot more. And we did a lot more..."

angrychair

(11,639 posts)
4. This is surreal
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 02:49 AM
Aug 2025

They said "we will paint the wall black" but all I heard was "it has electrolytes"

Response to LilElf70 (Original post)

Irish_Dem

(79,416 posts)
23. Money is no object for what they want.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 05:01 AM
Aug 2025

But they tell us the US is broke and we cannot afford anything for the people.

BidenRocks

(2,700 posts)
9. Build a 20 foot wall,
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 03:37 AM
Aug 2025

I will invest in 21 foot Mexican ladders.

Paint it black?

I will invest in a Mexican glove and blanket source.

Stupid fucks!

WestMichRad

(2,888 posts)
10. Paint it black
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 03:42 AM
Aug 2025

“I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colours anymore, I want them to turn black…”

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AZJonnie

(2,713 posts)
11. Oh, 'the president understands', does he? What a GENIUS, I mean, WHO KNEW?!?
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 03:51 AM
Aug 2025

Oh, wait, I'm pretty sure I figured that the asphalt in the street was hotter than the light concrete sidewalk by about the time I was 3 years old

Do I get a special shoutout for having grasped this arcane wisdom, too, Kristi?

The regime's lackeys, including the puppy-killer here, are just a pathetic, disgraceful gaggle of knob-polishers and ass-kissers.

Oh, and lemme guess, somehow none of these 1000's of miles of wall are subject to any kind of EIR, because fuckface has unilaterally declared those unneeded and 'woke'? And they're making zero accommodations to minimize the walls impact on the local flora and fauna? And all the border land, even that owned by private individuals, is subject to seizure by eminent domain?

Layzeebeaver

(2,151 posts)
12. Next up... nighttime wall climbing reaches peak levels...
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 03:57 AM
Aug 2025

The stupid is strong with these so called people.

tanyev

(48,581 posts)
27. No, see, the black fence is invisible at night! They won't be able to find it!
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 06:55 AM
Aug 2025

Fiendishly clever.



kkmarie

(336 posts)
13. Krasnov said 0 illegal crossings
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 04:01 AM
Aug 2025

Of course he said a bunch of other batshit crazy stuff. Here's an excerpt and link to the article from June 30, 2025

President Donald Trump said in a recent interview that there were zero illegal border crossings into the United States last month, with data released by federal authorities seeming to corroborate the claim.


https://www.newsweek.com/trump-southern-border-illegal-immigration-no-migrants-2092579

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW

JT45242

(3,814 posts)
15. Desperate attempt to prove Mango Mussolini doesn't hate "all blacks"
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 04:21 AM
Aug 2025

See... he's not a racist...he likes black so much he painted the wall black.

Which donor is making the black paint that the government will buy at 2-5 times retail value?

How much of a kickback is mango getting for the paint?

lastlib

(27,433 posts)
19. Next he'll be telling us that Mexico will paint the south side.......
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 04:42 AM
Aug 2025

Of course, painting the NORTH side is kinda superfluous, since it won't get much sun.........

"Staybull jeenyus"

llmart

(17,302 posts)
20. "to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally," Noem said.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 04:58 AM
Aug 2025

What a stupid and confusing statement. Encourage individuals to not come??? Encourage??? Jaysus, she's as dumb as a box of rocks.

llmart

(17,302 posts)
22. These are people who come here and work in the hot sun all day, bent over picking our crops...
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 05:00 AM
Aug 2025

does she really think a little black paint will deter them?

LilElf70

(1,348 posts)
25. I have no idea
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 05:34 AM
Aug 2025

what their thought process was. If the title of the article was meant to get attention, which I don't doubt, it did.

Who knows where this comes from? Narcissism is a strange thing.

yellowcanine

(36,707 posts)
24. What heats up fast also cools quickly.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 05:23 AM
Aug 2025

Just sayin. Even a black fence wil not stay hot at night.

GoCubsGo

(34,637 posts)
26. Someone should ask this dipshit just how many people actually climb
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 06:20 AM
Aug 2025

that wall/fence vs. getting in other ways. Like, you know, overstaying their visas, tunneling in, coming in through the gaps, using ladders... I'm betting she has no clue.

Arazi

(8,683 posts)
28. Proving once again that this is all a big scam
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 06:57 AM
Aug 2025

Did some paint guy buy a bunch of Traitor meme coins and now he gets a sweet (and stupid) contract?

They’ve got to know people go over it at night right? And just cutting holes in the fucking wall has proven to be the way many are coming through.

And then there’s the fact many are wearing gloves anyway

jonstl08

(532 posts)
30. Mexican side???
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 07:45 AM
Aug 2025

So who is going to paint the Mexican side? I am sure Mexico will not let an American contractor on their side of the border to paint it.

PS. It is a waste of money. They will find other ways to get around.

haele

(15,034 posts)
36. They'll just hire Mexicans to do the Mexican side ...
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:57 AM
Aug 2025

Cheaper, too, as the companies won't have to pay contributing taxes or fees to employ them.
What, those sneaky rascals are also painting the US side without having papers? How can that have happened?

Jilly_in_VA

(13,785 posts)
31. Yhis is supposed to make it harder to climb? How?
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 09:32 AM
Aug 2025

Explainit to me like I'm in kindergarten.

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,370 posts)
34. MaddowBlog-With black paint on border barriers, Trump and Noem are repeating a familiar mistake
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:50 AM
Aug 2025

The last time the president ordered officials to apply black paint to border barriers, it was an expensive failure. Naturally, he’s trying it again.

As you see reports about Trump/Noem painting border barriers black, don’t forget the recent history:

When Trump made this same demand five years ago, it was an expensive and wasteful failure. True to form, he’s repeating the same mistake, expecting a different result. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-20T15:58:42.730Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/black-paint-border-barriers-trump-noem-are-repeating-familiar-mistake-rcna226052

The enormous amount of new spending will also includes money for, of all things, the president’s preferred paint color. The Associated Press reported:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the entire border wall along the southern border with Mexico is going to be painted black to make it hotter and deter illegal immigration — and she credited President Trump with the idea. Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall in New Mexico, where she also picked up a roller brush to help out with the painting.


The Cabinet secretary added that the paint project is being done “specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it gets even warmer, and it will make it even harder for people to climb.”

There was, however, one relevant detail that Noem neglected to mention: The Trump administration already tried this same idea, and it didn’t work.......

Trump first started pushing the idea in 2019, at which point administration officials tried to explain to him that the painting project would waste too much time and money in pursuit of a goal that wouldn’t make much of a difference anyway. Border officials were confident at the time that Trump understood their concerns and would focus his energies elsewhere.

They were mistaken. In 2020, when the president should’ve been working on the pandemic, he ordered his team to start applying black paint to the barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, insisting that it would make the barriers hot to the touch and discourage climbers.

To the surprise of no one, Trump was wrong and those who tried to discourage him were right. Not only did the black paint fail to discourage breaches, it also started peeling off about a year and a half after it was applied. The whole endeavor was an expensive waste.

And so, naturally, the Trump administration is giving it another try, expecting a different result, spending a lot of American tax dollars on an initiative that only makes sense in the president's imagination.

mwmisses4289

(3,114 posts)
38. Is this the same stupid "wall" that is more like a fence,
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 12:01 PM
Aug 2025

with gaps big enough to drive a truck through, and of such poor quality metal that a dremel tool can cut through it? That stupid boondoggle?

Did ice barbie take word salad lessons from palin and trump?

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