Please Disregard

Go ahead and click on the image; it will get bigger. However, while I was designing this, I didn't realize that Venngage.com (the site in which I made the infographic) would require me to upgrade in order to properly download my infographic. I therefore just took a screenshot of my infographic. If you want to visit the links in the infographic, see directly below the infographic on this same page.



Here are those links:

• 1984, "If Donald Trump had gotten his way in 1984, a New Yorker wouldn’t have had to travel to Atlantic City to visit the Trump Castle. The real estate mogul wanted to build a castle-like skyscraper right in Manhattan—complete with a moat and drawbridge" (Rosenthal)

• 1989, "In March 1989, a few months before the Berlin Wall fell, the new administration of President George H. W. Bush proposed building a 14-foot-wide, 5-foot-deep border trench south of San Diego. Some likened it to a “moat,” since it would be filled with run-off rainwater" (Grandin)

• 2011, "In blaming Republicans, Obama charged that their fears about open borders were groundless since, "The fence is now basically complete." And to emphasize that claim, he mocked his opponents by saying, "Maybe they'll need a moat. Maybe they'll need alligators in the moat" (Hanson)

• 2015, "I realized that a wall isn’t going to cut it,” commented Trump during his immigration press conference. “A moat is better. You can’t climb over a moat.” Trump also said that the United States will handle the digging of the moat, but all alligators must be purchased by the Mexican government." (Rhodes)

• 2017, "Clayton Industries of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who claim to be “revamping the energy sector through matter manipulation”, have proposed digging a 100ft trench along the border and filling it with nuclear waste" (Wainwright)

• 2018, "I don't ask for much," tweeted Trump. "All I wanted was sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads and I wasn't able to get that. The crooked Dems will stop at nothing to stop the America First agenda, and this includes preventing a wall and a moat with sharks." (Dunlop)

• 2019, January, “Next he'll want a moat with alligators,” said Rep. Harley Rouda (D., Calif.) (Andrews and Peterson)

• 2019, January, Go Fund Me for Trump Security moat sign (mtosner)

• 2019, January, Oregon family asks for a moat rather than a wall (Ufford)

• 2019, January, Don Lemon Mocks Trump’s Border Wall Talk: Everything But ‘A Moat With Alligators’ (Russo)

• 2019, January, “Cancel the F-35 contract. Lockheed Martin is going to have to build these suckers by the thousands. On the positive side, my experts said it will not be necessary to stock the moats with alligators (this was a Hollywood invention) nor to hurl diseased animal carcasses at the migrants (ineffective)" (Milbank)

• 2019, May, "Trump is micromanaging the wall project in an effort to ensure that it is “physically imposing but also aesthetically pleasing.” Some of his ideas have a degree of cruel functionality to them, such as his reported desire to paint the steel structure black, so it soaks up the heat of the sun and becomes more difficult to climb, or for it to be adorned with sharp spikes that could cut the hands of would-be climbers" (Lutz)