John Oliver Takes A Very Serious Look At Donald Trump’s Giant Mexican Wall Plan
You're gonna love this wall, it's gonna be so beautiful, it'll be fantastic.
When Donald Trump becomes President in November and the United States becomes a real-life, 365-day-a-year version of The Purge, the first thing that gets done is The Wall. A big, beautiful wall along the border with Mexico. You’re gonna love this wall, it’s gonna be fantastic.
Tremendous.
Because Donald Trump is the political equivalent of the soggy, mould-infested mandarin you discover when you clean out your fridge every six months, no one’s done the serious legwork of scrutinising how financially, logistically and politically feasible The Wall actually is. On the latest Last Week Tonight, John Oliver condescended to engage with Trump’s ridiculousness with a level of seriousness usually applied to the policies of Presidential candidates, and concluded that it is precisely zero of those things. Shocking, I know.
Turns out The Wall would be a massively expensive, endlessly fraught, ultimately useless exercise in political feel-goodery that wouldn’t even do what it’s supposed to — namely, keep drugs and people from crossing the Mexican border.
It’s as we always suspected. Just like its Game of Thrones namesake, The Wall would be a disaster, even without a ragtag bunch of nameless vigilantes tasked with patrolling it.
Like this, only hot. And racist.