>Years after it was first promised and at a cost of more than $10 million per linear mile, President Donald Trump is confident that his newest stretch of a strengthened barrier along the U.S. southern border is “virtually impenetrable.”
>How confident? Enough to have its scalability tested by the world’s greatest rock climbers, he told reporters on Wednesday.
>“We have, I guess you could say, world-class mountain climbers. We got climbers,” Trump said beside a newly finished section of the barrier in Otay Mesa, California, which tops heights of 30 feet. “We had 20 mountain climbers. That’s all they do—they love to climb mountains. They can have it. Me, I don’t want to climb mountains. But they’re very good, and some of them were champions. And we gave them different prototypes of walls, and this was the one that was hardest to climb.”
>The climber test, Trump boasted, is proof that “this wall can’t be climbed.”
>The problem? The country’s top climbers have no idea what the hell Trump is talking about.
>“I have never heard of any climbers ever being recruited to try and climb a border wall,” said Jesse Grupper, who won the gold medal in the men’s sport lead category of this year’s USA Climbing Sport & Speed Open National Championships.
>Speaking to the nation’s top-ranked climbing athletes, past climbing and bouldering champions, and sports associations, The Daily Beast sought clues to the identity of any climber who might have participated in such a test. Not a single person in the tight-knit community of world-class climbers had heard a single word about any border wall experiment.
If history teaches us anything, there'll be 5000 new taco stands on the mexican side of the wall next year, all clamoring to sell to the neon spandex clad mountain climbers using it as a free gym.
This is why 2 years ago people were arguing for a CONCRETE barrier. Or the design with the overburdened top. But no, need for the border patrol to see sunset vistas of Mexico was more important.
Luis Kelly
Why didn't he just builda concrete wall like prisons and military bases have?
In the latter case they will just push their haul through the slat gaps (they help border patrol see!) and then climb over. It’s not hard to imagine a belay system being deployed by a human trafficker that would use a climbing harness to assist kids over the top. You can tie off to the top so this is not hard at all. You hoist them up, at the top tell them to attach the free short line with a clip to the belay from the other side, uncoil, Climb over, get lowered down. 2 minutes tops/person.
Sebastian Martin
A professional mountain climbing gold medalist climbed the wall, looks like it won't stop thousands of illiterate subhuman drug fiends after all.
Jeremiah Richardson
cope harder boomer
Parker Collins
I have never seen a 30' tall fence. This will be a first for me.
Liam Martin
fpbp desu
Jordan Wood
You’re right, The Wall should be much taller and perhaps we should have some nasty barbed wire along the top.
Hmm.... That's kinda neat. Only the best of the best of the best can enter. Sounds like a long term winning strategy to me
Camden Allen
>Professional Climbers
This is some retard logic. Professional climbers climbed the WTC therefore the WTC could be entered at roof level by anybody.
Benjamin Peterson
Finally merit based immigration, Jens you genius!
Matthew Hughes
So, did he climb it or what? Looks to me like he's in a tight spot.
Carter Johnson
>Professional Climbers As an accredited and licenced Climbologist with +20 years of experience in the climbing industry I scoff at this assertion. Have these "professional climbers" climbed the largest mountains or the tallest skyscrapers? No? Then you aren't a professional climber. Fuck off back to climbing plantation ladders to reach your avocado Paco.
Nathan Scott
1. invest in mexican climbing school 2. profit
Asher Ramirez
Determination can surmount obstacles though. If it's humanly possible, they'll find a way.
Jack James
He didn't even say that the "professional climbers", whatever that is, couldn't climb it. He said that they decided the one that he is talking about is the hardest to climb. What probably happened they asked a climber or 2 what they think and that's what they told them. Again fucking bullshit that has nothing to do with anything important. Fuck the "reporters" and their clickbait. Like we don't have problems bigger than that?
Still doesn't change the fact a large portion of border patrol are the children of illegal beaners themselves. Everytime border patrol is caught helping invading shitskins its a fellow shitskin taking cartel money.
Why would you let your enemies guard your base makes no sense what so ever, the only group who should be guarding the border should be White.
It’s fair. Make the wall very difficult to climb, but possible. If the illegal can climb over, they can have a green card. If they fall, too bad. Another stipulation is that the wall is televised 24/7 and Americans can watch Mexican’ts plummet to a spinal fracture.
Wyatt Fisher
LMFAO Those spics would get caught FAST. WALLS WIN!
Caleb Campbell
Cool, now run razor wire along the top, and paint the upper third with anti-vandal grease.
Better than the demgod nothing that was there. Take the walls down in your home you racist pig.
Caleb Campbell
All the wall has to do is slow them down long enough for drones with cameras to fly out there and scan their faces. Small teams with training and equipment can scale it quickly, sure. Good luck backpacking all that, plus food and water, while dodging recon satellites.
Josiah Thomas
Run a strong electric current through it and set up 4K cams for good entertainment.
Bentley Lopez
the entire Mexican pole vault team will soon be here
Jason Reyes
It's funny.. Cause I'm pretty sure that's a fence and not a wall. But whatever.. As long as Israel gets 38 billion every decade. That's what counts!
Alexander Jones
because he is rabbi. whatcha doin mohel?
Hudson Jenkins
If it will deter 99% of people it's good enough.
Lucas Myers
And I've never seen a wall made from steel bars with spaces between them. Maybe it's a wence, or a fall.. But it's not a fucking wall.
Adrian Phillips
lol, i'm an actual racist, how the fuck is multi culti us going to live, (if i'm the majority)
Jacob Cox
It’s called an NDA and a million dollar consulting fee. None of these people would ever admit the truth or be charged with treason.
Justin Flores
Yeah, they have to come in legally, kek. In greater numbers than ever before. MIGA!
Adrian Thompson
i'm also a pedophile, hide your children
Samuel Brown
How can border Patrol see their targets behind a wall sven?
John Gomez
Kek. This. Fucking demoralizing kikes. What, no nigger flag edition.
CANT CLIMB OVER LAND MINES *ARRIBA ARRIBA VAMOS* >poof
Noah Wright
Not going to bother clicking that garbage. The guy either didn't climb the new wall and safely scaled down the other side or he's such a rare outlier that the waves of 3rd world emaciated trash and pregnant goblinas have no hope of climbing it themselves. I can't wait to see the democraps' faces when they lose an election to him again.
