Trump on the wall: 'Call it a steel fence.' Trump in 2015: 'It's not a fence.'

President Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

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published 4 January 2019

A wall and a fence are two slightly different things.

President Trump was very adamant about that fact a few years ago, calling out then-GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush for mocking his border wall promise.

Hop forward a few years to Friday's press conference about the ongoing government shutdown, and Trump has a different tone. It could be "a wall, a fence, or anything the Democrats need to call it," Trump said of his newly suggested "steel slats," adding that he's "not into names." Kathryn Krawczyk

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.