Kristi Noem Burned For Agreeing To ‘Dumbest’ Trump Border Ask

Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem was brutally mocked on Tuesday after she revealed that Donald Trump requested for the U.S.-Mexico border wall to be painted black to make it too sizzling for migrants to climb.

Noem — in a press convention exterior the border wall in Santa Teresa, New Mexico — teased the additions of “know-how, cameras” and “sensors” to the wall, which Customs and Border Safety seems to finish with tens of billions of {dollars} in further funding from the president’s so-called Huge Lovely Invoice.

She went on to say that the wall’s peak in addition to its depth makes it tough, if not “inconceivable,” to go over or dig underneath earlier than she dove into Trump “particularly” requesting for the wall to get a brand new paint job.

“[He] understands that the recent temperatures down right here, when one thing is painted black, it will get even hotter, and it’ll make it even more durable for folks to climb,” mentioned Noem, who declared that staff would transfer “fairly shortly” on the portray efforts though a contract hasn’t been permitted for the total job but.

Later within the presser, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks added that the black paint would shield the wall from “rusting,” as effectively.