Trump Has Been Obsessed With Alligator-Filled Moats for (at Least) 35 Years

In 1984, Donald Trump planned a “castle” on Madison Avenue that had a drawbridge and a moat with, yes, alligators

Downtown, a much less exciting version of the unbuilt Trump Castle. Photo: Google As the New York Times reported on October 1, Donald Trump has repeatedly mused that the Mexican border might best be defended with a moat full of alligators and snakes. His aides, apparently, took him seriously enough to estimate what such a thing might cost. But it turns out that the president has been daydreaming about moats full of alligators for a lot longer than that.

A drawbridge would allow residents to enter and exit their apartment building. Johnson — Harvard-educated, a disciple of the cool modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — was now calling this his “most exciting project” ever. Implausibly, it had apparently been his own idea, not Trump’s, though Johnson called it “very Trumpish” — and he seemed to love it.

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