If it wasn't so fucking stupid, it would be kind of funny. But it's not of course...

Trump claims US is building a border wall in Colorado, which is impossible

By Greg Keraghosian

President Donald Trump has been exaggerating for months about the progress being made in building his desired border wall with Mexico. But on Wednesday, he took it a step further by including the wall in a state that is nowhere near the border.

Trump was speaking in Pittsburgh at the Shale Insight Conference when he began touting his 2020 re-election prospects with the supposed building of hundreds of miles of wall. He curiously added Colorado to the list of places where it’s being built, drawing a standing ovation from the crowd.

“You know why we're going to win New Mexico?” Trump said. “Because they want safety on their border. And they didn't have it. And we're building a wall on the border of New Mexico!

“And we're building a wall in Colorado,” the president said. “We're building a beautiful wall, a big one that really works — you can't get over, you can't get under.”

Trump added, “And we're not building a wall in Kansas, but they get the benefit of the walls that we just mentioned. And Louisiana is incredible.”

As has been repeatedly fact-checked, all that has been built along the border so far is 66 miles of replacement fencing – far from the hundreds of miles of concrete wall Trump promised. Trump did declare a national emergency to divert $3.6 billion from military construction projects to the wall.

Despite the ovation Trump got after claiming a geographic impossibility, pool reporter Michael C. Bender of the Wall Street Journal was attributed with the following quote on Twitter: “A POTUS riff on his promise to build a border wall — in which he ticked off the list of states the wall would touch, including, incorrectly, Colorado — drew laughs from more than a few of the conference attendees. Several shook their heads.”