Besides a perfect media dodge to all the other economic and social disasters the Trump administration is wreaking upon the American citizenry, here are a few things that this border wall will actually do:

Environment

Kind of hard to "make America great again" when you're screwing up the ecology

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/e...ildlife-water/



Time Frame

We've known for some time that this ain't happening overnight, folks.....and since the Orange Oaf is wailing about a CURRENT national emergency, it kind of makes one think why he'd opt for such a solution:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ubt-it/517341/


Cost

The Orange Oaf is (in)famous for blowing smoke about the costs of his projects:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...-report-2018-8


The American people

And since the Orange Oaf was born with a silver plated spoon in his mouth, he could give a damn about the average working stiff so long as there's a piece of real estate with his name on it for all to see:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...re-border-wall