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The Pastillon's fake ad for a "Börder Wåll."The Pastillon Assembling an Ikea bookshelf may be difficult, but designers from the satirical site  The   Pastill on  have envisioned Ikea instructions for a project that looks truly back-breaking: Trump's border wall. They created  a tongue-in-cheek ad  for a "Börder Wåll," making fun of Trump's real-life proposal. Less than a week after Inauguration Day, Trump  reiterated  his plans on Twitter to build a 1,900-milelong wall along the US-Mexico border. Construction could cost American taxpayers an estimated  $15 billion to $25 billion , though Trump says Mexico would eventually  pay for the wall  through taxes or trade. Maintenance and hiring 21,000 border-patrol agents could cost an additional $2.1 billion a year, according to CNBC and  an analysis  by Politico. From that perspective, the designers are offering their fake flat-pack wall for a barga...

Building an impenetrable wall along the US-Mexican border, ostensibly to keep out foreigners , is a key item on President Donald Trump's campaign-promise checklist. "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will  have Mexico pay  for that wall. Mark my words," Trump said during a campaign rally on June 16, 2015. The president moved toward fulfilling that promise on Wednesday, January 25, 2017, when he signed a  new executive order aimed at doing just that. The order tasks the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a role currently filled by John Kelly, to "immediately plan, design, and construct a physical wall along the southern border, using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control[.]" If Secretary Kelly is seeking technological inspiration for the  design of Trump's wall , however, we hope he doesn't go rifling through the FBI's recently released dossier on...