Donald Trump has said a lot of foolhardy things during this campaign so it should come as no surprise that in the final days of the presidential contest he made one of his dumbest statements yet.

Twice on Sunday, Trump told audiences at rallies that Hillary Clinton would open the U.S. borders so wide that it would reshape the entire planet.

“You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it,” Trump claimed. “Think of it. That’s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in a week.”

Just to have a little fun, The Washington Post blog “The Fix” calculated the numbers and came up with several ways to look at Trump’s blather.

First, it would mean one-tenth of the world’s population flooding into America in the space of seven days as undocumented immigrants. If every person in Central and South America rushed across our borders, that would only account for 600 million people.

If all these invaders come by car, the line of four-person vehicles would be up to 1.8 billion feet long, enough to stretch around the Earth 86 times, according to The Fix. If each car started in Panama City, Panama, it would mean 106 lanes of traffic, bumper to bumper, heading up to our Southern border. If only we had built that mythical NAFTA superhighway that was debunked nearly a decade ago.

Maybe this unprecedented horde predicted by Trump would fly here. Well, the top 45 busiest U.S. airports in 2014 handled an average of 24.8 million people a week in 2014. If each somehow handled 10 times their normal influx of passengers — allowing flights at all hours and allowing planes to land in much closer sequence — we’d manage less than half of the one-week immigration total that Trump foresees.

Perhaps in the spirit of the Ellis Island era, these illegals would come by boat. But … the largest cruise liner in the world is the Harmony of the Seas, which carries 5,500 passengers in comfort. So, we would need 118,000 Harmony-style ships to sail the seas and accomplish this 1-week transition.

Or the simplest solution would be this: ignore Trump’s nonsense and proceed as quickly as possible to Election Day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/31/donald-trump-warns-that-650-million-immigrants-could-come-to-the-u-s-in-a-week-lets-do-the-math/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1