And Noem said Homeland Security was going to be trying black paint to make the metal hotter.

'K... ish... I mean, I get the physics, but, doesn't this murican know the concept of nighttime?

If they make the wall black, won't ICE try to deport it?

So she knows someone who sells black paint. Didn't take a lot to figure that out.

Add it to the pile of really obviously stupid ideas that can be thwarted with 3 seconds of thought...

So good Mexico hasn’t learned about gloves yet… or you know… night time. Phew. Close one.

Right... Because black paint is going to stop them how exactly? "It absorbs the heat, so they will get burns when touching the fence".

Ever heard of night?

would be fuckin hilarious if they painted the US side and completely forgot about the Mexican side.

then when they go to paint the Mexican side, Mexico says, "no, that's our side"

Where those Epstein files at??

That clip of her standing in front of it, talking about how tall and deep it is, "almost impossible" to scale or dig under, then triumphantly proclaiming that they're going to paint it black to make it harder to climb. Right after saying it's almost impossible to climb.

Oh, and it's already black.

When I was leaving Mexico after a few months down there in my RV I was diverted from my usual border crossing location (Sonoyta) to a much larger one (Yuma) ~40 min away. I had to wait in a 2 hour line to get to customs, and in that line I was inching forward next to the border wall. In this large city in plain view of everyone, mind you, I watched 4 seperate teams of mexican brothers get over the wall in under 5 min. The magic weapon? Rope 3 of the times, a jank looking ladder the last time. Billions of dollars defeated with a rope. The facepalm would send me into orbit rn.

And how does that stop a ladder?

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

What happens when they have oven mits or you know, just gloves, or just wait until night when the metal is cooler and they have cover of night?

Whatever, I guess I shouldn't care about that $500+ million that goes to put on a single coat that peels off six months later because they didn't prime the surface.

Shit, I didn't realize that angle grinders were so sensitive to black paint.

Good thing DOGE saved us so much money that we can now easily afford to pay for completely logical projects such as this.

Oughta be illegal to be that stupid

As someone who lives somewhere that just got up to 120° f hot metal is no joke. We had a ton of people hospitalized a few years back because they went to open gates to their homes and weren't expecting scolding hot metal when it was already like 11pm.

I'm not going to hate this because it's a idea that doesn't work, I'm going to hate it because it's just another method to harm people who want to come to the land of the free. On top of it border states like to charge people for leaving out water so just anything they can possibly do to be vindictive and hateful I guess.

This is the same border wall they've been pulling down with Toyotas?

Stupid is as stupid does.

maybe I'm thick... but how does black paint prevent someone from climbing a fence?

All 65 miles of it?

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.

congrats on her achievement of finally having done some small amount of manual labor for the first time in her life.