On Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver made it his mission to break down and expose Donald Trump’s flawed plan to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
In the past, Trump has estimated the project would cost $4 billion and later raised the total to $12 billion. But, Oliver cited a Washington Post analysis that found Trump’s wall could cost as much as $25 billion, without including cost of maintenance.
“So it’s a big dumb thing that only gets more expensive over time,” Oliver said. “It’s like getting a pet walrus. You think it’s stupid now, wait until you learn what a bucket of sea cucumbers costs. You’ve not prepared for that!”
Trump has also said that he plans on making Mexico pay for the wall, an idea that has been vigorously rejected by Mexican politicians.
The current treasury secretary of Mexico told The Guardian that “Mexico, under no circumstance, is going to pay for the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing.”
Oliver then played a clip of former Mexican President Vicente Fox saying, “I’m not gonna pay for that f—ing wall. He should pay for that!”
“The best part of that clip is that he even took the extra effort to swear in English,” Oliver said. “This may be my second language, but I want to make absolutely sure you f—ers understand it.”
Watch the full clip below:
How much do we give them in aid per year? 200,000,000+ not to mention benifets from traide agreements , at that rate we could make them pay for a wall and maintain it