Trump: No need for full border wall thanks to ‘vicious rivers’
President-elect Donald Trump is again walking back his biggest campaign promise: to build a wall along the southern border of the United States.
President-elect Donald Trump is again walking back his biggest campaign promise: to build a wall along the southern border of the United States.
On Thursday, during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in Cincinnati, Ohio, Trump said that “vicious rivers” and “mountains” would mean that it was not necessary to build the border wall in parts of the border.
“Now, there are certain places you don’t need a wall, because you have, you know, you have mountains, you have other things. You have large and rather vicious rivers,” he said during the interview, though he declined to specify where those natural barriers were.
Still, he insisted that he was going to build a physical wall, as he had promised on the campaign trail: “But, no, we’re building a wall. It’s going to be a real wall, because we’re going to stop the drugs from coming in.”
He added that the wall would stop illegal immigration while still allowing legal immigration to move forward.
“We’re going to have a real wall and we’re going to stop what’s happening, because what’s happening in our country is very sad in so many different ways,” he said.
