ALTOONA, Pa. — A longtime supporter of President-elect Donald Trump was said to have woken up from a post-victory slumber early Wednesday morning “extremely agitated” after realizing in a dream that an everyday ladder might be used to scale a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
“What good is a 15-foot-tall wall with Mexico if they can use a regular 16-foot ladder to climb over it,” said supermarket manager Wesley Grimm, 32, to his sleeping wife. “You just prop up the ladder against the wall, climb up, straddle the top, hoist the ladder over, scoot down to the other side, and you’re in.”
According to reports, Grimm spent the following three hours sending emails and Facebook messages to dozens of aides from the Trump 2016 campaign, imploring them urge Trump to think about building a 20-foot wall instead, which although scalable, would be more secure due to the scarcity and prohibitively high cost of 21-foot ladders.