Remember Trump's border wall?

After making the need for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border a central campaign theme, President Trump has asked Congress for just $1.6 billion to start building 74 miles of barriers. Texas alone shares more than 1,200 miles of border with Mexico.

If Congress approves the current request, 14 miles of old fencing in the San Diego sector would be replaced, and 60 miles of new structures would be built in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas — the region with the heaviest illegal traffic.

With the 74 miles of new barriers and 654 miles of existing border fence, more than one-third of the southwest border would be covered.

The request is far less than the $21.6 billion the Homeland Security Department had estimated that wall construction would cost. Still, Trump's request works out to $21.6 million a mile, or nearly $13,000 a yard — for what's expected to be a steel and concrete barrier.

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/24/529904884/president-trumps-big-wall-is-now-just-74-miles-long-in-his-budget-plan

Ouch lol. And he won't even get that.

The negotiator in chief, the art of the deal, etc.

He never promised any kind of wall. My Trumpkin neighbor told me so just yesterday.

@perfect_blue:

Trump didn't write Art of the Deal by himself. Tony Schwartz practically did all the actual work. The dude spent nearly half a year shadowing Trump and even he already knew about Trump's self destructive tendencies before Trump was president.

Oh I know lol just having some fun with it.

He just needs 4 terms to finish with Texas then.

It looks like he's trying to do the easiest portions of the wall first and still coming in at a cost per mile much greater than the $21.6 billion estimate would cover. By the time you add the cost of road construction, easements, and costs of moving material to the middle of nowhere, this wall would easily costs hundreds of billions of dollars.