Donald Trump Reportedly Suggested Covering Border Wall With Solar Panels

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

06/06/2017 06:50 pm ET

Two contracting firms have already pitched a similar plan to the Department of Homeland Security.
By Mollie Reilly


President Donald Trump pitched congressional leaders on placing solar panels on his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Politico and Axios reported Tuesday.

Trump’s suggestion reportedly came during a meeting with GOP House and Senate leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. Trump said the electricity generated by the panels could help offset the expense of the wall, the news sites reported, which the Department of Homeland Security has estimated will cost more than $21 billion.

Axios, citing three people familiar with the meeting, reported:

Trump said his vision was a wall 40 feet to 50 feet high and covered with solar panels so they’d be “beautiful structures,” the people said. The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall but this would be nothing like those walls. Trump told the lawmakers they could talk about the solar-paneled wall as long as they said it was his idea. One person cautioned that the President wasn’t presenting the solar-paneled wall as the definite solution.




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[yallerdawg]

1. Certifiably nuts.

Please - someone certify him!

[Binkie The Clown]

2. Did it occur to him that the panels would have to be on the south-facing side?

That would put them in Mexico, who could claim them and all the electricity they produced.

[pangaia]

6. Beat me to it... LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

OR .. North facing solar panels.... that's a winner....

[genxlib]

8. In fairness

Mexico is paying for the wall after all, right?

[Honeycombe8]

3. He's nuts. Take him away. nt

[rusty quoin]

4. It would prove the outrageous cost of renewable energy,

if you add in the cost of the 50 foot mounting wall the solar panels are anchored to.

[SharonAnn]

5. But, why don't they just burn coal at the top of the wall?

[pangaia]

7. Oh, come on, you guys.

I want to go to bed but.. it's just toooo entertaining here..

[Kleveland]

9. Build the wall out of coal!

Better still!

That way it will provide jobs for the coal miners, since no forward looking corporation even wants to burn coal anymore!

[hatrack]

10. And you can SET IT ON FIRE!!!!!

That will dissuade those cantaloupe-calved Messcan smugglers!!!

[Yavin4]

11. If you set the coal wall on fire, doesn't that mean that you won't have a wall any more?

And then you would have to rebuild it all over again?

[0rganism]

12. voila! instant job creation

2 for 1 deal, 1st job building the wall and a 2nd job burning it down. every day. remember, jobs jobs jobs!

[harun]

20. Mo jobs mo better

[Kleveland]

13. That is the whole point!

Keep them miners diggin'!

Two promises kept at once.

[hatrack]

16. It's the ultimate in Coal Rolling!

Just think about all the pissed-off libruls!!!

[Kablooie]

15. And it would incinerate anyone trying to go over the top! Delightful!

[NNadir]

14. As a person who questions the "solar will save us" meme, I find this hilarious, or disturbing...

...or both.

Two bad ideas put together don't make a good idea.

[MGKrebs]

17. I suppose the cost would then be more than $20 billion.

Maybe $40 billion!
And how does that help pay for the wall anyway? The feds sell the electricity to utility companies who then sell it to consumers? So we end up paying for a twice as expensive wall? Good plan!

[not fooled]

18. The more delusional he gets

the bigger and grander the wall becomes.

In his mind.

Soon it will be 500 feet tall and made from angel's wings.

[harun]

19. Next will be a giant moat of crude oil, what could possibly go wrong?