Trump’s signature campaign promise was a 2,000-mile concrete border wall to keep out illegal immigrants. Only now it might not be 2,000 miles... or concrete... or a wall?
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00:00Build that wall! Build that wall! Build that wall! Build that wall!
00:13On the fence. It's not a fence, it's a wall.
00:16This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier, not just a simple concrete wall.
00:25What are the walls going to be made out of?
00:30I'll tell you what it's going to be made of. It's going to be made of hardened concrete,
00:34and it's going to be made out of rebar and steel.
00:37We're thinking about building the wall as a solar wall, so it creates energy and pays for itself.
00:45And this way, Mexico will have to pay much less money, and that's good, right?
00:53A barrier, wall, or steel slabs, whatever you want to call it, it's all the same.
00:58The only thing that's going to stop that is great border security,
01:03with a wall, or a slat fence, or whatever you want to call it.
01:07Wall, fence, whatever they'd like to call it. I'll call it whatever they want.
01:11Border security and the wall, also called, so that I give them a little bit of an out, steel slats.
01:19We don't use the word wall necessarily, but it has to be something special.
01:25Steel is stronger than concrete.
01:28If I build this wall, or fence, or anything the Democrats need to call it,
01:34because I'm not into names, I'm into production, I'm into something that works.
01:39If I build a steel wall, rather than a concrete wall, it will actually be stronger than a concrete.
01:46Even concrete, there's acid that can go through concrete.
01:51I'd like to have a concrete wall in one way, but in another way it wouldn't be very effective,
01:55because you can't see to the other side.
01:57It's got to be strong. Combination of walls, combinations of fence, combinations of great border patrol.
02:03We do not need 2,000 miles of concrete wall from sea to shiny sea. We never did.
02:10We never proposed that. We never wanted that.