The Great Wall of Donnie has been something of a mystery ever since Trump started talking about it. There’s the mystery of how he’s going to make Mexico pay for it. The mystery of how he says it can be completed for much less than anyone who has really looked at the problem has estimated. There’s the mystery of how you build a wall at all along a twisting border, much of which is defined by a river, where even constructing a fence has proved problematic.
Well, worry no more!
Buffalo New York Congressman Chris Collins (R-NY) was the first member of Congress to endorse presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and he's become a key campaign surrogate for the reputed billionaire businessman. But in a Tuesday interview with The Buffalo News, Collins said he believed two of Trump's signature campaign proposals would never be carried out.
Collins said he believed the wall Trump promised to build along the US-Mexico border would be more an idea than a physical wall. “I have called it a virtual wall. Maybe we will be building a wall over some aspects of it; I don’t know."
A virtual wall! Can we shave the budget by hiring 10 million kids to build it in Minecraft? Can we provide a free Oculus Rift to every northbound immigrant so they’re convinced there is a wall? Can it look like The Wall? The one that’s 800 feet tall and made out of ice? Can there be dragons? If we’re going to build a virtual wall, it has to come with dragons, dammit.
Collins also said that Trump's controversial plan to deport roughly 3% of the current US population would be a "rhetorical" exercise rather than a physical deportation.
So, we’re going to pretend to build a wall and talk about kicking people out of the country, but we don’t really intend to do either? That’s actually quite a relief.
Why don’t you have Don explain that at the next rally? It’ll be a big hit.