Part of a proud tradition of construction-themed pranks, these morbid Canadian satirists have got a smoking hot deal for Donald Trump.
“Canadians’ Satirical Border Wall ‘Solution’ Designed to Drive Trump Up the Wall”
by Jim Brunner
Seattle Times
March 17, 2017
No, dead Nazi Albert Speer is not really bidding to build President Donald Trump”™s proposed border wall. But a group of Canadian pranksters who “˜figured some kind of parody submission was in order”™ has created and submitted one in Speer”™s name.
More than 700 businesses have signed up for possible work on President Donald Trump”™s proposed “big, beautiful” wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
But not everyone registering for the early-stage federal bidding process is serious. Some are looking to satirize or protest the controversial project.
Take “Trump Wall Solutions,” a firm ostensibly based in Toronto, Canada, which has signed up as an “interested vendor” in response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) online solicitation.
The company”™s listed principal? That would be Albert Speer, the Nazi war criminal who was Adolf Hitler”™s personal architect. Speer, who designed the infamous Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, died in 1981.
Trump Wall Solutions is actually a small group of Canadian pranksters mortified by the Trump administration and the border-wall plan, according to two men involved in the project who spoke with The Seattle Times by phone Friday.
“We just thought it was a bit absurd, this whole wall proposal. We figured some kind of parody submission was in order,” said Matt, one of the organizers, who said he works in architecture in Toronto. Read more.