Trevor Noah rips Donald Trump’s new border wall suggestion

On The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Noah took down Donald Trump’s idea for yet another border wall, this one across the Sahara Desert. Earlier this week, Spain’s foreign minister, Josep Borrell, said that Trump suggested to him that Spain build a wall across the Sahara to thwart Europe’s migrant crisis. But there’s more than a few problems with Trump’s suggestion. One being that Spain doesn’t share a border with Africa. They’re separated be the Mediterranean Sea. The closest Spain comes to Africa is at the Strait of Gibraltar, which is nine miles wide at its narrowest point. Another problem is that the Sahara is over 3,000 miles long and one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth. Borrell said that after making the suggestion, Trump said, “The border with the Sahara can’t be bigger than ours with Mexico.” Spanish officials reportedly had to explain to Trump that the Sahara is in fact about 1,000 miles longer than the U.S. border with Mexico.

Besides the length of the Sahara and that the idea of building a wall across it is completely illogical, Noah pointed out the biggest problem with Trump’s suggestion. “I can’t even believe I have to say this,” Noah said, “but Africa is not a part of Spain, so they can’t just build something on someone else’s land.”