Cards Against Humanity

A border wall between the United States and Mexico was a cornerstone of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. This rubbed Cards Against Humanity the wrong way. They bought a piece of land along the border and asked us to build a Medieval trebuchet on it. Cards Against Humanity said they are never going to crush Trump’s twenty-billion-dollar wall with this totally badass trebuchet, but they could. But they won't. But they could. 

I designed a custom trebuchet towering 28 feet high - sized to be a formidable opponent to Trump's 55 foot wall. I took a month back at my Ohio farm where there's a couple hundred acres of land, a large barn workshop, a tractor and an excess of telephone poles (perfect for the trebuchet arm). Over the course of two weeks, we went from sketches to a fully functioning trebuchet. Once the beast was built, it was disassembled, packed on a truck and hauled down to the Mexico border.

In Texas, we cleared the site of heavy brush, laid down 26 tons of caliche and made a nice level pad for the trebuchet to sit and sling. Then headed heartily into two days of filming.

Cards Against Humanity announced the trebuchet to the world in December 2017 as part of their annual holiday promotion. In addition to an illustrated map of the land they purchased and the hiring of a lawyer specializing in eminent domain, the 150,000 people who signed up to receive mystery gifts got to support stopping the wall and revel in the video made in Texas.