Architecture studio New World Design has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a golden picket fence around US president Donald Trump's compound in Palm Beach, Florida, to highlight the absurdity of his plans for the Mexico border wall.
Launched on platform GoFundMe, The US-Mexico Border Wall: A Study in Absurdity campaign aims to raise millions to erect the golden structure around Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
Designed like a giant picket fence, the 30-foot-high (nine-metre) barrier would act as a prototype for a longer version along the border.
It is intended as a parody of Trump's proposal, which Chicago-based New World Design described as "a grand illogical absurdity".
The Mar-A-Lago structure is intended as a prototype of New World Design's parody of Trump's US-Mexico border wall The Chicago-based architecture studio aims to raise $570 million (£432 million) for the test build at Mar-a-Lago. This equates to 10 per cent of the $5.7 billion (£4.3 billion) that the president has requested to build the border wall, which triggered the longest US government shutdown in history.
"We propose this as a means to keep the 'bad guys' in," said the team on the GoFundMe page. "This as an alternate to the irrational and inhumane border wall that will harm many in need, further divide America, and waste tax payer money."
New World Design's satirical fence features a gold-hued finish intended to speak to "Mr Trump's decorating taste", echoi...