Trump continued to say that Mexico would pay for the wall even after he was elected.
on building the Great Wall, will be paid back by Mexico,' Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning. "This will be a wall with a very big, very beautiful door, because we want the legals to come back into the country." Trump previously campaigned that Mexico would pay for the wall. OK? And, by the way, Mexico will pay for it," Mr. Trump reiterated he would build the wall on Mexico's dime. The wall is set along the path where the 'iconic' Trump-Modi road show is scheduled to take place on February 24. In an appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation" in August 2015, Mr. The brick wall, which has been painted grey, has been erected across a 400-metre stretch, mainly to conceal the squalor of the slum settlement. "I will build a great great wall on our southern border and I'll have Mexico pay for that wall," Mr. Trump made building the wall a key part of his pitch. In his speech announcing his campaign in 2015, Mr. Trump would ask who was going to pay for it. In many rallies, it became part of a call-and-response with attendees, where audience members would respond "Mexico" when Mr. Trump's insistence that Mexico would pay for the wall was a cornerstone of his campaign. The panels moderator Dave Karger decided to jokingly make a reference to how timely a subject. The Great Wall is, unsurprisingly, set at the Great Wall of China around 1,000 years ago. The memo also mentioned tariffs, visa cancellations and visa fees as other ways to pressure the Mexican government into paying. Even though Matt Damons main task at the New York Comic-Con was to promote and amp up his upcoming film The Great Wall, when the opportunity arose to have a dig at Donald Trump the actor couldnt resist it. "On day 3, tell Mexico that if the Mexican government will contribute the funds needed to the United States to pay for the wall, the Trump Administration will not promulgate the final rule, and the regulation will not go into effect," the memo read.