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Related: About this forumInsanity or Ignorance? Trump Urged Spain to "Build Wall" Across Sahara Desert
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Insanity or Ignorance? Trump Urged Spain to "Build Wall" Across Sahara Desert (Original Post)
rsacamano
Sep 2018
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DetlefK
(16,670 posts)1. Insanity. As a real-estate tycoon Trump should know that you cannot build on sand.
Laying foundations in sand is extremely tricky and has only recently been mastered. (Ironically, for off-shore wind-turbines.)
The foundations alone would make the project so expensive, it boggles the mind.
Ohiogal
(40,575 posts)2. I feel as though I type these words
"He is a fucking embarrassment"
for way too many occasions....
SimpleC
(279 posts)3. Racist rhetoric nothing more...
His basic theme has always been, brown and black people need to go away...
doc03
(39,086 posts)4. Spain shares a border with the Sahara
Desert?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)5. If he had his way every single country in the world would
have a wall around it.