With Friday marking the deadline for contractors to submit their plans for Donald Trumps border wall on the Mexican border, Stephen Colbert huddled with an architect, an engineer, an interior designer and a concrete guy to see how logistically feasible Trumps endeavor is.
Unfortunately, Trump hasnt provided many concrete details pertaining to his vision other than the wall is going to be so big and so strong and so strong, impenetrable and beautiful.
Trumps mental blueprint also envisions a wall that is heck-of-a lot taller than an arenas ceiling, leaving Colbert and his team to figure out what the measurement of heck-of-a is. Heck-of-a equals one half an ass-load equals 20 feet, Colbert told his experts on the Late Show before settling on a 100-foot-tall wall.
The tab for Trumps wall quickly climbs to $1 trillion before Colbert and his experts realize its probably best to construct a 2000-mile highway alongside the wall. Because what is a highway if not a wall on its side?, Colbert pointed out.
As for Trumps boasts that the wall will be beautiful, Colbert gave that assignment to his interior designer, who failed when he suggests the ugly wall be turned into a rock-climbing wall, which would allow people to scale the wall and thus defeat its purpose. Another suggestion is to wallpaper the wall, which would balloon the cost of the wall to the tune of 54 million rolls of wallpaper.
With the logistics all finally squared away, Colbert called up the Mexican consulate and asked for $2 trillion to pay for the wall, preferably in petty cash.