Texas man organizes 'search party' event to look for San Antonio wall Trump referenced

[DonViejo]

BY ARIS FOLLEY - 01/23/19 12:18 PM EST

A man from San Antonio has organized a “search party” dedicated to finding a wall in the city that President Trump referenced over the weekend.

While speaking to reporters on Saturday, Trump boasted about the effectiveness of border walls while specifically mentioning San Antonio.

"Everybody knows that walls work," Trump said at the time. "You look at San Antonio, you look at so many different places. They go from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities, immediately.”

The Houston Chronicle points out that while San Antonio's overall crime rate has gone down in recent years, it cannot be attributed to any type of border wall. The city is roughly 150 miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border.

Still, San Antonio resident Manuel Lopez Jr. has created a Facebook event to organize a search party to find the nonexistent wall following the president's remarks.

More than 3,000 people have responded that they are "going" to the Facebook event, while 15,000 people have said they are "interested" in attending.

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[riversedge]

1. Should be a fun time for all.

[watoos]

2. Maybe Trump meant the Alamo,

and those walls didn't work out so well.

[jberryhill]

3. Maybe they'll find Pee Wee Herman's bicycle in the basement

[Gothmog]

4. Instead of Where's Waldo, we need to find trump's wall

[End Of The Road]

5. Bet it won't be long until someone opens a sports bar named THE WALL

with appropriately named menu items.

They’ll find it!

[oberliner]

6. He meant San Diego

[FSogol]

7. Did he correct himself? Did he tell you personally?

[ExciteBike66]

8. So he meant a "whale's vagina"? Sounds about right. nt

[struggle4progress]

9. Wait! he meant San Francisco! No! he meant San Juan!

No! Wait! He meant San Dpaper!

[Hekate]

12. Well, since Spain settled an enormous swath of what is now the US, I guess it's easy...

...to mix them up. If you're an idiot.

Really oberliner?

[LakeSuperiorView]

10. It's a stealth wall. You literally can't see it. It's the most advanced wall, tremendously powerful

that I can tell you.

[Hekate]

11. We shall call it The Emperor's New Wall

[LakeSuperiorView]

13. Good name.

Someone needs to take a picture of two 30 foot ladders propped up on opposite sides of The Emperor's New Wall.