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Quixote1818

(28,936 posts) Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:59 PM Dec 2019

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Man filmed climbing over wall with a rope ladder weeks after Trump boasted it was "impenetrable'

FOOTAGE has emerged of a migrant brazenly climbing over Donald Trump's new of US-Mexico border wall.

It comes just weeks after the US president bragged his wall as “virtually impenetrable” during a trip to the exact same $150million stretch of the barrier in California.

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10481943/man-filmed-climbing-mexico-wall-rope-ladder-trump/

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Man filmed climbing over wall with a rope ladder weeks after Trump boasted it was "impenetrable' (Original Post) Quixote1818 Dec 2019 OP

Well, technically, they didn't go *through* it... TwilightZone Dec 2019 #1

Dump also said the wall was electrified. JACKASS. nt UniteFightBack Dec 2019 #2

His bluster just invites the challenge of making him look even stupider. Marie Marie Dec 2019 #3

Didn't a woman just scale it in 7 seconds? nt Blue_true Dec 2019 #4

An 8 year old scaled it in under 1 minute. BigmanPigman Dec 2019 #8

Ladders for sale at your local hardware store. Chakaconcarne Dec 2019 #5

All I ask for are some frickin' alligators with laser beams attached to their heads, but no!!! pecosbob Dec 2019 #6

Where there's a will... gauntlet thrown down. nt babylonsister Dec 2019 #7

where there's a wall ... ropes, ladders, and sawzalls Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2019 #9

Lol Sopio Dec 2019 #10

Professional climbers scale replica easily JonLP24 Dec 2019 #11

TwilightZone

(25,471 posts)

1. Well, technically, they didn't go *through* it...

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:04 PM

Dec 2019

so Trump is kind of right. haha

Except, of course, someone already drilled through a different part a couple weeks ago.

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)

2. Dump also said the wall was electrified. JACKASS. nt

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:05 PM

Dec 2019

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)

3. His bluster just invites the challenge of making him look even stupider.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:06 PM

Dec 2019

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

4. Didn't a woman just scale it in 7 seconds? nt

Reply to Marie Marie (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:13 PM

Dec 2019

BigmanPigman

(51,591 posts)

8. An 8 year old scaled it in under 1 minute.

Reply to Blue_true (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:30 PM

Dec 2019

https://www.inquisitr.com/5688609/eight-year-old-scales-trump-border-wall-seconds/

Chakaconcarne

(2,452 posts)

5. Ladders for sale at your local hardware store.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:16 PM

Dec 2019

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)

6. All I ask for are some frickin' alligators with laser beams attached to their heads, but no!!!

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:19 PM

Dec 2019

babylonsister

(171,065 posts)

7. Where there's a will... gauntlet thrown down. nt

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:22 PM

Dec 2019

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)

9. where there's a wall ... ropes, ladders, and sawzalls

Reply to babylonsister (Reply #7)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 01:44 AM

Dec 2019

Sopio

(25 posts)

10. Lol

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 01:58 AM

Dec 2019

Priceless.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

11. Professional climbers scale replica easily

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 02:38 AM

Dec 2019

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