While the 2016 election is still over 14 months away, the entire affair has already become so absurd that it resembles a fever dream.
Things got even more strange on Sunday when in an interview with NBC's Meet The Press, Wisconsin governor and GOP candidate Scott Walker implied that the United States may also need a border wall with Canada.
In the interview, Walker said:
"Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire. They raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago. So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at," he said.
Walker didn't give any specifics on the meeting in New Hampshire or specific threats from Canada's side of the border.
Concerns surrounding the possibility of terrorists entering through the U.S.-Canada border aren't new. And Canada has long fought rumors that any of the September 11 attackers entered the U.S. via the Canadian border.
Still, the reaction on social media was swift and incredulous, even if a little light on the obvious Game of Thrones jokes.
The one positive thing about Governor Scott Walker's wall between the USA & Canada is that it might stop him from ever crossing the border.— Josh Matlow (@JoshMatlow) August 30, 2015
If we're going to build a US-Canada border wall, could we at least have one that kept out the smoke from US forest fires?— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) August 30, 2015
Republican Scott Walker wants to build a wall between the US & Canada. He must not know we're good hoppers. pic.twitter.com/SeMDLBvOIo— Ryan McByks (@IAmByks) August 31, 2015
Walker's Canadian wall wasn't the only eyebrow-raising idea that came from a GOP candidate this weekend.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie said during a speech he'd want a FedEx-like tracking system for people in the U.S. on temporary visas, saying, “At any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. It’s on the truck. It’s at the station. It’s on the airplane. Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them."
Christie later said he didn't mean to imply that "people are packages," but still doubled-down on the FedEx system.