DHS Secretary Noem says entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it
Source: CBS News
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the entire wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is going to be painted black to make it hotter and deter illegal immigration an idea she said was "specifically at the request" of President Trump.
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.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-secretary-says-entire-southern-border-wall-to-be-painted-black-to-stop-people-from-climbing-it/
It'll be so hot, those wooden ladders will burst into flame!


taxi
(2,447 posts)Now all that's left to do is put up signs stating that all daytime crossings have been rescheduled to nighttime.
nuxvomica
(13,575 posts)Just black arches that look like tunnels. That way people, and coyotes, will just smash into them while road runners will still get through. I don't know why the stable genius whose uncle taught Ted Kaczynski at MIT didn't think of that.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,438 posts)
Ray Bruns
(5,517 posts)Grokenstein
(6,126 posts)Irish_Dem
(73,429 posts)Bengus81
(9,209 posts)Irish_Dem
(73,429 posts)Prairie Gates
(5,986 posts)They really have to bear a heavy burden, constantly justifying these boneheaded ideas. One almost feels sorry for them.
Mawspam2
(1,016 posts)mackdaddy
(1,841 posts)You know this really is from the dear leader. Right up there with the injecting bleach ideas.
orangecrush
(26,341 posts)Blue Dotty
(148 posts)I suppose if he asked you to shoot puppies, you would do that too? Oh, never mind.
RealityChik
(394 posts)And besides, who wants to come to the US, anyway? Nothing worth risking your life for. Oh well, ketchup shows up better on black anyway
Javaman
(64,410 posts)considering the "wall" isn't much of a wall but a bad fence with lots and lots of holes and almost all of it incomplete.
travelingthrulife
(3,060 posts)surrounding the border and this wall.
There is no wall except at the photo-op sites. There are no hordes of immigrants crossing the border.
Javaman
(64,410 posts)Oeditpus Rex
(42,438 posts)for orange skin, anyway.
Old Testament Libera
(109 posts)Just in time for Halloween!
I bet Trump wants to be appointed the Great Pumpkin too.
Ray Bruns
(5,517 posts)C_U_L8R
(47,930 posts)No coloreds anymore, he wants them to turn back
Mopar151
(10,328 posts)Junkyard science! If you leave a chrome plated object out in the sun, next to a piece of rusty iron, the chrome part will get much hotter!
Satin black over rust will stay cooler than super shiny high gloss black.
Rechargeable saws will cut through the bars easily enough, anyway.
Red Mountain
(2,174 posts)you know......gloves.
Real high tech arms race going on down there. Hope Trump can keep up.
lildDemz
(88 posts)will be banned within 100 miles of the borders.
travelingthrulife
(3,060 posts)to see who could get over it fastest. It was like 20 seconds
Pisces
(6,080 posts)70sEraVet
(4,785 posts)sop
(15,671 posts)(NYT) "The president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. Thats not allowed either, they told him."
When Trump was asked about the alligators during one of his border photo ops, he responded crocodiles would be better since they were more aggressive.
sinkingfeeling
(56,210 posts)dedl67
(80 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,060 posts)All the hordes of imaginary immigrants will certainly stay away now!
Brainfodder
(7,654 posts)So obvious!
Oeditpus Rex
(42,438 posts)iamnoone
(6 posts)Were all straightmen in a gargantuan Three Stooges episode.
Fla Dem
(27,016 posts)Amaryllis
(10,633 posts)Hey Joe
(189 posts)In six months you wont be able to pay anyone to enter this country.
This regime has already made America as popular as syphilis .
Save the money, were toxic enough with a president who rolls out the red carpet for
murderers.
LetMyPeopleVote
(168,580 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 20, 2025, 02:25 PM - Edit history (1)
The last time the president ordered officials to apply black paint to border barriers, it was an expensive failure. Naturally, hes trying it again.
As you see reports about Trump/Noem painting border barriers black, donât forget the recent history:
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-20T15:58:42.730Z
When Trump made this same demand five years ago, it was an expensive and wasteful failure. True to form, heâs repeating the same mistake, expecting a different result. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/black-paint-border-barriers-trump-noem-are-repeating-familiar-mistake-rcna226052
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 didnt 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 wouldnt 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 shouldve 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.
tanyev
(47,577 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(127,691 posts)Or do you pull stuff out of the oven bare handed?
SandyDoc
(3 posts)People are no longer trying to get into this country since you took over and began making it into a shit pile. Sorry!!!
sakabatou
(45,229 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(168,580 posts)
mn9driver
(4,766 posts)Because it would never occur to someone to climb the wall after dark.
Aristus
(70,667 posts)
LetMyPeopleVote
(168,580 posts)intelpug
(144 posts)No, Actually the fence do's not run right on the border its self but is set back some distance so for a way's the side facing Mexico is still US territory
travelingthrulife
(3,060 posts)Skittles
(166,855 posts)FUCK THESE VILE FUCKING DISGUSTING PEOPLE
Old Testament Libera
(109 posts)Texas, NM, Arizona, and CA borders have fall and winter.
And early spring. And night as well as day. It won't be hot all the time.
fujiyamasan
(578 posts)kiranon
(1,734 posts)Should incorporate art into the wall or at least better color or colors. Big beautiful wall is down right ugly. And unnecessary waste of money. At least, turn it into a work of art. (sarcasm alert)
Skittles
(166,855 posts)or uses gloves
CrispyQ
(40,140 posts)mdbl
(7,212 posts)
Hotler
(13,400 posts)Walleye
(42,102 posts)DrFunkenstein
(8,810 posts)How this idea got beyond the "puff and pass" phase, I'll never understand. These guys were obviously listening to the Stones and wrote down "Paint It Black!" in Sharpie before they nodded off.
truthisfreedom
(23,454 posts)Who would bother?