# Trump's Wall. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169 "2017-01-25T18:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/1 "2017-01-25T18:27:30Z")
How did he manage to act so fast on the Mexican wall? He [purchased Hadrian’s Wall](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/01/25/2601-MATT-GALLERY-WEB-P1-large_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.png)! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/2 "2017-01-25T21:10:36Z")
As I observed in the thread on Mexico paying for Trump’s wall, Hadrian’s wall isn’t all that impressive: > [@](#): > > Have you seen what Hadrian’s Wall looks like? > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadria...head\_Lough.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadria...head_Lough.jpg) > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadria...nswall2007.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadria...nswall2007.jpg) > > Even granting that the wall has been “mined” for stone (although those remaining sections have awfully flat and finished tops), the wall wasn’t anywhere hear as tall as the one Trump seems to be supporting > > [Bing Image Inspiration Feed](https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...sEO&ajaxhist=0) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/3 "2017-01-25T22:07:08Z")
You’re no fun! I visited Hadrian’s Wall perhaps 40 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/4 "2017-01-25T22:46:20Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > You’re no fun! Matt cartoons are generally no fun either. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/5 "2017-01-26T12:57:44Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > You’re no fun! > > I visited Hadrian’s Wall perhaps 40 years ago. Reality, sadly, often has an anti-fun bias. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/6 "2017-01-26T13:01:32Z")
And yet it’s often humour that does the real damage to a politician. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/7 "2017-01-27T03:12:06Z")
No, no! It should be a MOAT, not a wall! Then you could have sharks with frickin’ laser beams! And crocodiles and giant squids! And moat patrols with guards riding velociraptors! ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/8 "2017-01-27T04:05:02Z")
Personally, I think Trump should install a treadmill running back towards Mexico. We all know treadmills are non-controversial. Perhaps a 1920s style death ray could be set up to protect the treadmill. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/9 "2017-01-27T05:03:20Z")
I have a whole bunch of killer robots here I could sell him. They even almost work. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/10 "2017-01-27T12:44:42Z")
- We’ll build a Great Wall, and the Mongols will pay for it! - We’ll build a wall for Emperor Hadrian, and the Scots and Picts will pay for it! \*We’ll build a Wall of Ice and Snow, and the White Walkers will pay for it! - We’ll build an Anti-Fascist Wall in Berlin, and the Americans, British, and French will pay for it! - We’ll build an Iron Curtain, and the West will pay for it! - We’ll build a Frontier, and the Ko-Dan Armada will pay for it! - We’ll build the Ered Lithui and the Ephel Duath around Mordor, and the Elves will pay for it! Okay, that last one might have worked, if the Quendi had gone in for Middle-Earth Plate Tectonics ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/11 "2017-01-27T13:21:26Z")
Will it be better than the Great Wall of China? Can we make it more visible from space then theirs? This is like the Wall race, well we already lost that one, but since the Chinese are going to the moon many years after us and seeming doing it better, we are going to build a wall just like them to show our American ingenuity and just how far we have come since then by making a better wall. Also anyone else concerned at all that walls can be used just as effectively for keeping people in as keeping them out? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-wall/778169/12 "2017-01-27T21:54:04Z")
Even better, he could just airlift the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall. At least the chunks with the names of the non-war heroes who were captured. The Picts and the Mongorians could team up.