Trump claims he electrified the border wall. Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade is visibly disturbed.
Sometimes President Trump's early-morning rants are even too absurd for his favorite morning show.
Trump called into Fox & Friends on Friday to complain about two weeks of public impeachment hearings and the women involved with them, and then, unsurprisingly, spun to talking about the border wall. But when he started ranting about some deterrents he's apparently added to his plans, he didn't have all the show's hosts onboard.
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At the end of the very lengthy interview, the Fox & Friends squad tried to decipher just why Trump calls in all the time. Kilmeade chalked it up to "stress relief."
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