Rock climbers to hold border wall climbing competition ...

[left-of-center2012]

So, Trump lied again :

A rock climber plans to hold a border wall climbing competition after President Trump recently declared a new section of his border wall with Mexico "impossible to climb," according to a new report from climbing magazine Rock and Ice.

Rick Weber — a 75-year-old retired engineer, and active rock climber certified by American Mountain Guide Association as a Single Pitch Instructor — writes that he has built a replica of an 18-foot tall section of steel border wall and has invited rock climbers to compete in the climb on Oct. 11 and 12. "We will be hosting the event on land my wife and I own in the Red River Gorge region of eastern Kentucky," Weber wrote in Rock and Ice. "[It] coincides with one of the largest gatherings of climbers in the U.S.—an annual event called Rocktoberfest."

Trump announced that 20 of the most skilled mountain climbers out there had been tasked with trying to scale the wall, but were unable to do so. “We have, I guess you could say, world-class mountain climbers. We got climbers,” Trump said ... “We had 20 mountain climbers. That’s all they do — they love to climb mountains. They’re very good, and some of them were champions. And we gave them different prototypes of walls, and this was the one that was hardest to climb.”

Those in the climbing community, however, have raised questions over Trump's claims of a climbing test. Weber wrote in the post announcing his competition that "no one in our climbing community knows any of these 20 mountaineers." Some professionals said that the claim was "preposterous." Jesse Grupper, a gold medalist in this year's USA Climbing Sport & Speed Open National Championships, said he "never heard of any climbers ever being recruited to try and climb a border wall."

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/464478-rock-climbers-to-hold-border-wall-climbing-competition-after-trump-said-new

[cwydro]

1. He's such a damn liar.

Such obvious bullshit.

I hope someone tweets about this to the shitgibbon.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yes, but will the replica wall also have spikes on the top and

a moat with alligators and snakes?

[rpannier]

11. Another step towards his medieval dream

King Donald I (the fat loser)

[babylonsister]

3. The idiot threw down the gauntlet.

I love the response and hope all remain safe.

[captain queeg]

4. I thought this was already happening in Mexico

They’d built a replica and it’s become a tourist activity. The record so far, when I read it, was 45 seconds. I think their replica is 30 ft tall?

[left-of-center2012]

5. Someone should dress up like Trump to climb the wall

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I don't think wall-climbing would be possible

for a person who was accurately dressed like Trump. The fat padding would be unwieldy; the urine-colored hair would get in their eyes and the orange makeup would melt; they couldn't climb very well wearing shoes with 3" lifts, and the long necktie would get tangled in the slats.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I thought I saw and read an article where two teenage girls in Mexico

climbed it in under a minute recently.

[Demovictory9]

7. trump lies too too much

[UTUSN]

8. K&R, another of the thousand cuts!1

[rpannier]

10. Russian Rock Climbers