# Zero miles of new border wall built since Trump took office
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [July 22, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449 "2019-07-22T13:07:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/1 "2019-07-22T13:07:44Z")
But I guess the idea of new walls will drive people to the polls next November.
[Trump has not built single mile of new border wall since taking office](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-not-built-single-mile-084326790.html)
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/2 "2019-07-22T14:16:08Z")
If Trump merely tells his marks that new sections have been built, that’s good enough for the gullible who believed in the lunacy in the first place.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/3 "2019-07-22T17:44:04Z")
It’s a “metaphorical wall,” and it always has been. Apparently.
[https://thedailybanter.com/2018/12/31/trumps-border-wall-now-just-a-metaphor/](https://thedailybanter.com/2018/12/31/trumps-border-wall-now-just-a-metaphor/)
None of these people live in anything resembling reality. But to be fair, that’s way too big a word for any of Trump’s base, let alone Trump, to understand.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/4 "2019-07-22T18:04:30Z")
It’s on scheduled as planned. Sections are being built daily. It’s big and really beautiful. Many people are saying it’s the biggest wall ever built. And best of all we are still having Mexico pay for it. If you hear anything differently that’s the fake media being unpatriotic and committing treason. They treat me so unfairly. If they don’t like my new wall they should probably leave the country.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/5 "2019-07-22T19:08:26Z")
Obama didn’t build a wall while he was in office. But do you hear liberals saying anything about that?
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/6 "2019-07-22T19:22:58Z")
But I will bet plenty of Taxpayer funds have been funneled into the pockets of trump cronies.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/7 "2019-07-22T19:24:35Z")
> [@Hampshire](#):
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> It’s on scheduled as planned. Sections are being built daily. It’s big and really beautiful. Many people are saying it’s the biggest wall ever built. And best of all we are still having Mexico pay for it. If you hear anything differently that’s the fake media being unpatriotic and committing treason. They treat me so unfairly. If they don’t like my new wall they should probably leave the country.
This. And the Trumpsters will believe every word of it.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/8 "2019-07-24T04:32:54Z")
It’s the biggest and most beautiful wall in history. And in case it isn’t, it’s the fault of America-hating Democ- **rats** :
Another official blamed Democrats for obstructing progress. He told the newspaper: “The wall projects are moving along as quickly as practicably possible given the unprecedented obstruction from Democ **rat** lawmakers to protect and prolong open borders.”
> **[Trump has not built single mile of new border wall since taking office](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-not-built-single-mile-084326790.html)**
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> It was the controversial campaign promise that Donald Trump built his 2016 electoral success on: to build what he called a “big beautiful wall” on the US border with Mexico.But, two and half years after he took office, supporters – who were so...
It’s like an elementary school playground when it’s recess time for the first grade. Is America a nation really capable of self-government any more?
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/9 "2019-07-24T08:46:23Z")
It’s scary how many parallels there are between Trump and the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
They are both lying narcissistic adulterous buffoons.
While Trump fails to build the ‘Mexican-sponsored’ wall, Johnson ‘built’ an imaginary bridge, costing taxpayers millions.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/10 "2019-07-24T17:28:56Z")
Malform follows malfunction.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/11 "2019-07-24T17:36:23Z")
Trump is trying to claim that rebuilding existing wall sections counts as new walls.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-miles-of-new-border-wall-built-since-trump-took-office/837449/12 "2019-07-24T19:30:27Z")
> [@glee](#):
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> It’s scary how many parallels there are between Trump and the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
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> They are both lying narcissistic adulterous buffoons.
> While Trump fails to build the ‘Mexican-sponsored’ wall, Johnson ‘built’ an imaginary bridge, costing taxpayers millions.
I am kinda happy the Brits have Boris (where is Natasha?) because then I dont have to read their holier than thou complaints about us electing trump.