They are now painting the border wall black.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently announced that, at President Trump’s request, the steel fence along our southern border will be coated in dark paint so it heats under the sun and becomes harder to climb.

But isn't that like decorating the house before you’ve built the roof?

This structure, once Trump’s rallying cry, has been lost in all the noise of his second term. I had nearly forgotten it myself, until I saw pictures of men with paint rollers freshening up the unfinished monument.

The image is striking: darkened to intimidate, a monument less to function than to appearance. It is a perfect metaphor for Trump’s presidency.

Trump promised a “big, beautiful wall” stretching along the 1,954 miles of the southern U.S. border, which he once claimed Mexico would pay for. What he delivered in his first term was about 450 miles of fencing, the majority of it replacing existing structures.........

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