If anyone thinks that this wall

[Texasgal]

can be built for 5 billion, they are seriously deluded.

Texas just recently built a toll road on very flat terrain that is all of 41 miles long. The cost? 1.3 billion dollars not including maintenance and repairs that ill have to made in the future.

The Rio Grande Valley is enormous with huge mountain ranges and hilly scrub land. This will cost WAAAAAY more than what Cheeto is asking for.

Where will all this money come from? This is one big boondoggle and I am a surprised that the conservatives that will clench a dollar bill between their ass cheeks is in favor of such a thing! Not to mention alllll the other reasons.... but really... WTF?

[The Genealogist]

1. How many millions will be needed for eminent domain lawsuits alone?

Much less the actual purchase of land, materials, labor, kickbacks, etc.?

[Texasgal]

2. Yup, there is that too.

As a matter fact, there are still lawsuits ongoing to this day from when ol' George W started something similar albeit on a much smaller scale.

Then I wonder... a national emergency that is 5 years or more in making? REALLY?

[The Genealogist]

4. As I said earlier today...

Trump acts like he is going to get this $5 billion and the next morning the cranes and bulldozers are going to start building this wall. I think his deplorables think this as well. They've all got another thing coming.

[lunatica]

3. It will probably never happen

let him declare a national emergency. He will lose that fight too.

He’s like a fly caught on flypaper. The more he struggles the more stuck he gets.

[Texasgal]

6. I'm just more and more

astounded by the stupidity of RW'ers that actually THINK this could work!

[anarch]

5. there are spots where it's not even physically feasible

But it was never about the actual, physical wall anyway. And the $5.7 billion or whatever was just pulled out of somebody's ass, as something that sounds like a lot of money that might build something impressive (and can probably be hacked up and split between the various interested parties in less than a year). He just wants to be dictator, that's it really.