White House continues building 13-foot high 'anti climb' wall after protests

[Nevilledog]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-border-anti-climb-wall-us-trump-protests-a9639761.html

The White House is on course to complete a planned multi-million dollar perimeter fence replacement as construction continues.

Pictures shared online showed construction advancing along Pennsylvania Avenue, where views of the White House are expected to be impaired when the new fence is completed next year.

Parts of the street have been blocked off and a temporary wall has been erected, as construction takes place.

Under plans that pre-date Donald Trump’s administration, the White House will upgrade all permitter steel fencing with new 13-foot “anti-climb” fences.

The enhanced security measures also include wider and stronger fence posts, intrusion detection technology, and “future security threat” mitigation, according to the plans.

*snip*

[marybourg]

1. So much for "the people's house".

He just doesn’t want to see the Black Lives Matter” mural

[lpbk2713]

2. Trump knows he's the most despised man in the world.

And it's making him paranoid.

[CaptYossarian]

10. Everybody says he's paranoid.

God, I hope he reads DU.

[kskiska]

3. Need I ask...

are there public tours anymore?

[Ilsa]

13. I think if Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Public

cough up $250k for his pac, the couple gets a tour. Donald may even try to isolate the Mrs. if he decides she's pretty enough to have her pussy grabbed.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Don't worry. The first strong wind will blow it over. nt

[soothsayer]

7. Ha!

[Midnight Writer]

21. I reckon Joe will blow it over on Day One.

[chriscan64]

5. "when the new fence is completed next year"

Won't need it next year.

[volstork]

11. My thought exactly.

n/t

[crickets]

22. Too true. All that money wasted on trump's tacky monument to paranoia, and

Repubs in Congress can't cough up enough to get people by during this emergency. It's maddening. That ugly fence will come down January 2021 and good riddance.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Pre-date? I dont believe this version pre-dates traitor...would love to see more about that

[DBoon]

8. Trump always wanted a wall

Now he will get one to protect him from American citizens

[Blue Owl]

9. Send the toddler down to his bunker

with a loaded gun...

[Tech]

12. Which one of his buddies is getting paid to build this wall? And at what cost?

[magicarpet]

20. No one could be trusted,... so Jared got the no bid multi-million dollar contract.

[unitedwethrive]

14. This is perfect for us! Imagine the photo ops with Biden as president when the wall comes down!

It will be seen as the liberation of the United States. Perfect symbolism!

[Efilroft Sul]

18. LIBERATE AMERICA!

I hope President Biden tweets that message when the wall comes down. And may it be on the one-year anniversary of the Trump "Liberate" tweets.

[crickets]

23. +1000000

[NurseJackie]

15. Is it also anti-ladder?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. A result of hard-core divisiveness fostered by the extreme right-wing....

and plutocrats around the globe. That creates extremists willing to go to any lengths in support of their dogma.....including scaling walls at our White House and trying to turn the general public into numerous competing armed militias.

Dozens of right-wing think tanks and a massive right-wing media system (public and social) sponsored by hundreds of corporations and the ultra-wealthy are directly responsible for this sort of security measure along with militarization of police forces, human rights violations, removal of crucial government regulations and selling off of our public lands.


KY.......

[stillcool]

17. I bet he turns off the lights..

and peeks out the curtains, holding his breath, just certain some one of the many people he effed-over is out there. They're coming...and there aren't enough guns in the world to keep his fear away. So he builds a 13' fence?

[Maru Kitteh]

19. They can't even get an anti-wind fence right.

Link to tweet

[NightWatcher]

24. "Plans that predate trump admin"

[live love laugh]

25. Symbolic of Republicans' effort to distance themselves from the people nt

[bdamomma]

26. walls and fences

are meant to come down. Ha, shows what a coward he is. Idiot boy.

[Thekaspervote]

27. Finished next year? We'll finish it right into the trash heap

[IcyPeas]

28. meanwhile melania is renovating the Rose Garden now

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213813042

[Takket]

29. says a lot about drumpf that's he's turning the people's house into a fortress

to keep the people out.

[Ms. Toad]

30. Although the implementation timing is suspicious, plans for enhanced fencing are from the Obama era:

July 2015
A removable anti-climb feature consisting of sharp metal points was installed on the top of the White House fence to deter any attempts by individuals to climb over the fence.

July 2016
The Commission of Fine Arts approved concepts for a new White House fence proposed by the National Park Service and the United States Secret Service. The proposed fence will be taller, stronger, and equipped with anti-climb and intrusion detection components.

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-timelines/history-of-the-white-house-fence

From April 2016:

The U.S. Secret Service plans to raise the height of the White House security fence by 5 feet and add a new concrete foundation to reduce the risk of fence-jumpers, according to a copy of an agency report obtained by the News4 I-Team.

The agency, along with the National Park Service, said it intends to begin building a “taller, stronger” fence to protect the White House grounds by 2018.

. . .


According to the Secret Service briefing, the agency’s plans would raise the current 6-foot-tall fence to 11 feet. A new concrete “footing” and “foundation” for the fence are also planned.

Secret Service and National Park Service plans for the new fence would also include “anti-climb features” to deter fence jumpers. Small spikes, which officials call “pencil points,” were added to the current fence in 2015 after a series of jumpers leapt the fence on to White House grounds.

The plans for the new White House fence would include 1¾-inch pickets and taller gates near entrances to the grounds.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/secret-service-plans-to-raise-white-house-fence-by-5-feet/1994195/

What is not clear is how much of the big ugly view-blocking design was part of the original design.