Donald Trump says Donald Trump is "considered a great builder, by everybody," and the GOP presidential hopeful does have a few towers to his name. So why not add a comprehensive U.S.-Mexico border wall to the portfolio?
"It's not even a difficult project if you know what you're doing," Trump told The Washington Post in a Thursday interview. "And no one knows what they're doing like I do."
Trump's calls for tighter border security have recently landed him in hot water: During his campaign kickoff speech in June, Trump described Mexican immigrants as "rapists,” and said they are responsible for rising drug and crime rates in the United States. But Trump later told NBC News that despite his rhetoric he has a "great relationship with the Mexican people" — which should serve him well in his plan to pay for the proposed border wall.
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"[Convincing the Mexican government to pay for the wall] is realistic if you know something about the art of negotiating," Trump told the Post. "If you have a bunch of clowns negotiating, it's not realistic."
While a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border might be more, well, realistic, Trump says a wall is better.
"It's much more powerful," he explained. "It's taller."
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