By Lynnette M. Booker
Donald Trump has high ambitions and low expectations on Americans building a wall on Mexico’s dime. Basically, he is in denial. The refusal to acknowledge the reality of it is in Trump’s tone and behavior when addressing the subject. Trump speaks emphatically with finger pointing and other quixotic hand gestures, but there is also a smugness in his eye squints and hard smiles that seemingly transitions into playful grin, as if he knows something that the rest of world is mute to. He is America’s ingenious gentleman Don Quixote and naive Peter Pan. Trump believes. But when reality sets in, he can channel his failures and save face by building a wall of trees instead of a wall of steel and concrete. A wall of trees along Mexico’s border is eco-friendly and economic.
In The Economist: What is Africa’s “Great Green Wall”?, J.A.R.B explains the apparatus behind “The Green Wall” initiative. J.A.R.B reports “solving the twin problems of land degradation and desertification poses a greater challenge still. But more than 60 years after it was first proposed, just such a project is underway at the edge of the Sahara.” Trump’s greater challenge is convincing president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, to pay for the wall. Perhaps, Pena Nieto will pay to plant a swathe of trees along the border. The proposition may not hinder illegal immigrants from entering California, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas, but it will block wind and sand and improve the soil.
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