Go home 2018, you're drunk: Vox reporter defends President Trump's 'Steel Slat Barrier' illustration

Greg P. | 5:47 PM on December 21, 2018

President Donald Trump is getting mocked by the blue-check media over this illustration of what he envisions a “Steel Slat Barrier” on the U.S.-Mexico border would look like. There are dozens and dozens of responses, but CNN’s Jim Acosta is pretty much indicative of what they’re all saying:

Huh? After attending rally after rally during the campaign with chants of "build the wall" and promises that Mexico would pay for it, this is where we end up? A cartoon image of pointy spikes unveiled days before Christmas as the government is on the verge of a shutdown. https://t.co/SoFkNikmXw

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 21, 2018

Except, according to Vox’s immigration reporter Dara Lind, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it:

Uh, hot take: that design is actually a decent representation of what bollard fencing looks like

— Dara Lind (@DLind) December 21, 2018

I will never understand why people find bollards mockable, they were the gold standard in barrier design _before Trump was president_

— Dara Lind (@DLind) December 21, 2018

Everyone else in 2017: LOL A SEE-THROUGH WALL
Me: he means bollards

Everyone else in 2018: LOL STEEL SLATS
Me: he means bollards

Everyone else now: LOL CARTOON
Me: …yah those are bollards

— Dara Lind (@DLind) December 21, 2018