DHS Secretary says entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop people from climbing it.

[LilElf70]

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/articles/dhs-secretary-says-entire-southern-002106684.html

The stupid just keeps getting worse. Trump and Noem agree to paint the wall black? Has no one informed them that there are many ways to get around a wall? All the millions of gallons of paint wasted on tax payers dollars? WTF is wrong with these idiots? So it appears, they want to spend the money on paint, not Medicaid. Unbelievable.

We are desperately in need of people in the White House that actually have a brain. This shit has to stop.

And again, I sit here and just shake my head, and wonder what's next..

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“That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally,” Noem said.

[Skittles]

1. sounds so very Christian

[riversedge]

2. I thought it was an Onion article when I first read the OP title.

[Skittles]

16. I honestly don't know how The Onion can compete with Trump.2

seriously

[lastlib]

18. It's why Ringling Bros. closed down in 2017---

they couldn't compete with the tRump circus.......

[riversedge]

3. Also: "Homeland Security will be getting about $46 billion to complete the wall ".......

I can think of LOTS of things--like food, shelter, schools, bridges, roads --for the needy of this country, that this money could be better used for!!


.........During Trump's first term, building the wall was a central focus of his hardline immigration policy. During his second term, his mass deportation agenda with arrests in the interior of the country has been the main focus, but Homeland Security will be getting about $46 billion to complete the wall as part of new funding passed by Congress this summer.

Noem said they have been building about a half mile of barrier every day.
..........

[Irish_Dem]

21. More money for Noem'a personal use.

[Norrrm]

29. Dotard said he completed the wall

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/fact-check-trump-announcement-speech-2024

Fact check: 20 false and misleading claims Trump made in his announcement speech

“We built the wall, and now we will add to it. Now, we built the wall – we completed the wall – and then we said let’s do more, and we did a lot more. And we did a lot more..."

[angrychair]

4. This is surreal

They said "we will paint the wall black" but all I heard was "it has electrolytes"

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Monumental Waste Of Money

[Irish_Dem]

23. Money is no object for what they want.

But they tell us the US is broke and we cannot afford anything for the people.

[Buddyzbuddy]

7. Yup, that'll fix it. Then everybody can go home.

[IcyPeas]

8. Look at the bright side....

... at least they're not electrifying it...... yet

[BidenRocks]

9. Build a 20 foot wall,

I will invest in 21 foot Mexican ladders.

Paint it black?

I will invest in a Mexican glove and blanket source.

Stupid fucks!

[WestMichRad]

10. Paint it black

“I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colours anymore, I want them to turn black…”

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[H2O Man]

35. Glad I checked

before posting this. One of their best.

[AZJonnie]

11. Oh, 'the president understands', does he? What a GENIUS, I mean, WHO KNEW?!?

Oh, wait, I'm pretty sure I figured that the asphalt in the street was hotter than the light concrete sidewalk by about the time I was 3 years old

Do I get a special shoutout for having grasped this arcane wisdom, too, Kristi?

The regime's lackeys, including the puppy-killer here, are just a pathetic, disgraceful gaggle of knob-polishers and ass-kissers.

Oh, and lemme guess, somehow none of these 1000's of miles of wall are subject to any kind of EIR, because fuckface has unilaterally declared those unneeded and 'woke'? And they're making zero accommodations to minimize the walls impact on the local flora and fauna? And all the border land, even that owned by private individuals, is subject to seizure by eminent domain?

[Layzeebeaver]

12. Next up... nighttime wall climbing reaches peak levels...

The stupid is strong with these so called people.

[tanyev]

27. No, see, the black fence is invisible at night! They won't be able to find it!

Fiendishly clever.

[Layzeebeaver]

32. Oh that's good!

GENIUS!!!

[kkmarie]

13. Krasnov said 0 illegal crossings

Of course he said a bunch of other batshit crazy stuff. Here's an excerpt and link to the article from June 30, 2025

President Donald Trump said in a recent interview that there were zero illegal border crossings into the United States last month, with data released by federal authorities seeming to corroborate the claim.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-southern-border-illegal-immigration-no-migrants-2092579

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW

[rpannier]

14. Another idea from this admin that sounds like an idea from a 4th grader

[JT45242]

15. Desperate attempt to prove Mango Mussolini doesn't hate "all blacks"

See... he's not a racist...he likes black so much he painted the wall black.

Which donor is making the black paint that the government will buy at 2-5 times retail value?

How much of a kickback is mango getting for the paint?

[Godot51]

17. Paint it black...

as the Stones sang...

[lastlib]

19. Next he'll be telling us that Mexico will paint the south side.......

Of course, painting the NORTH side is kinda superfluous, since it won't get much sun.........

"Staybull jeenyus"

[GoodRaisin]

33. ...and pay for it.

[llmart]

20. "to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally," Noem said.

What a stupid and confusing statement. Encourage individuals to not come??? Encourage??? Jaysus, she's as dumb as a box of rocks.

[mwmisses4289]

40. That's an insult to the rocks!

[llmart]

22. These are people who come here and work in the hot sun all day, bent over picking our crops...

does she really think a little black paint will deter them?

[LilElf70]

25. I have no idea

what their thought process was. If the title of the article was meant to get attention, which I don't doubt, it did.

Who knows where this comes from? Narcissism is a strange thing.

[yellowcanine]

24. What heats up fast also cools quickly.

Just sayin. Even a black fence wil not stay hot at night.

[GoCubsGo]

26. Someone should ask this dipshit just how many people actually climb

that wall/fence vs. getting in other ways. Like, you know, overstaying their visas, tunneling in, coming in through the gaps, using ladders... I'm betting she has no clue.

[Arazi]

28. Proving once again that this is all a big scam

Did some paint guy buy a bunch of Traitor meme coins and now he gets a sweet (and stupid) contract?

They’ve got to know people go over it at night right? And just cutting holes in the fucking wall has proven to be the way many are coming through.

And then there’s the fact many are wearing gloves anyway

[jonstl08]

30. Mexican side???

So who is going to paint the Mexican side? I am sure Mexico will not let an American contractor on their side of the border to paint it.

PS. It is a waste of money. They will find other ways to get around.

[haele]

36. They'll just hire Mexicans to do the Mexican side ...

Cheaper, too, as the companies won't have to pay contributing taxes or fees to employ them.
What, those sneaky rascals are also painting the US side without having papers? How can that have happened?

[Jilly_in_VA]

31. Yhis is supposed to make it harder to climb? How?

Explainit to me like I'm in kindergarten.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. MaddowBlog-With black paint on border barriers, Trump and Noem are repeating a familiar mistake

The last time the president ordered officials to apply black paint to border barriers, it was an expensive failure. Naturally, he’s trying it again.

As you see reports about Trump/Noem painting border barriers black, don’t forget the recent history:

When Trump made this same demand five years ago, it was an expensive and wasteful failure. True to form, he’s repeating the same mistake, expecting a different result. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-20T15:58:42.730Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/black-paint-border-barriers-trump-noem-are-repeating-familiar-mistake-rcna226052

The enormous amount of new spending will also includes money for, of all things, the president’s preferred paint color. The Associated Press reported:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the entire border wall along the southern border with Mexico is going to be painted black to make it hotter and deter illegal immigration — and she credited President Trump with the idea. Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall in New Mexico, where she also picked up a roller brush to help out with the painting.

The Cabinet secretary added that the paint project is being done “specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it gets even warmer, and it will make it even harder for people to climb.”

There was, however, one relevant detail that Noem neglected to mention: The Trump administration already tried this same idea, and it didn’t work.......

Trump first started pushing the idea in 2019, at which point administration officials tried to explain to him that the painting project would waste too much time and money in pursuit of a goal that wouldn’t make much of a difference anyway. Border officials were confident at the time that Trump understood their concerns and would focus his energies elsewhere.

They were mistaken. In 2020, when the president should’ve been working on the pandemic, he ordered his team to start applying black paint to the barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, insisting that it would make the barriers hot to the touch and discourage climbers.

To the surprise of no one, Trump was wrong and those who tried to discourage him were right. Not only did the black paint fail to discourage breaches, it also started peeling off about a year and a half after it was applied. The whole endeavor was an expensive waste.

And so, naturally, the Trump administration is giving it another try, expecting a different result, spending a lot of American tax dollars on an initiative that only makes sense in the president's imagination.

[moondust]

37. I can hear Raygun now:

"Mr. Krasnov, paint that wall black!"

[mwmisses4289]

38. Is this the same stupid "wall" that is more like a fence,

with gaps big enough to drive a truck through, and of such poor quality metal that a dremel tool can cut through it? That stupid boondoggle?

Did ice barbie take word salad lessons from palin and trump?

[Beaverhausen]

39. Is anyone actually climbing the wall?

Seriously, I don't know.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. LOL-Noem can only paint one side of this fence and Mexico is having fun painting the other side

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. This makes me smile

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