Thread by @SethAbramson

Trump never built his vanity border wall—though after promising Mexico would pay for it, he tried to steal money from our troops and everyone else to do it (and men linked to him stole money in its name).

But America *will* ultimately have to build the Trump Virus Memorial Wall.

PS/ Thanks to @OlphertJustin for the image. I personally measured it to confirm that the lengths are accurate.

I hope people don't think I'm joking. I wouldn't joke about this. I believe America owes it to our pandemic dead to #BuildtheWall—the Trump Virus Memorial Wall—in D.C.

PS2/ This pandemic has been the greatest public health disaster in our history. The death toll alone would put it in the conversation—but what puts it first among America's historic tragedies is that nearly all the deaths were preventable. That's why a Memorial Wall is justified.

PS3/ I know discussion of a Memorial Wall won't begin in earnest until after the pandemic is "over"—keeping in mind that the Trump White House indicated, during the RNC, that it *is* over, so *they* should start talking about a Memorial Wall—but it's useful to note the issue now.

PS4/ I'd like to know why the Trump White House prefers to build a wall *with no statistically significant effect on national security* at *obscene* expense rather than a Memorial Wall to commemorate the lives and deaths of what will be hundreds of thousands of US COVID-19 dead.

PS5/ I'll just end by reiterating that the one #BuildtheWall campaign I *will* support—and the one #BuildtheWall campaign we all *know* Donald Trump will *never* support, as media has established that he is responsible for most of the names on it—is the Trump Virus Memorial Wall.

NOTE/ In response to a query: it's not a matter of death toll. It's that *malfeasance* was a key cause of death. For instance, there was incompetence in our AIDS response—but we've never seen so many Americans die here at home in a public health crisis of our government's making.