Donald Trump has been promising a huge border wall since he began talking about it.
Even when it was reported that he told the NY Times everything was up for negotiation, he still said that building the wall was not.
He’s often quipped that if China can build the Great Wall of China, then we can do the same on our border.
But that’s not what Rick Perry is now saying:
POLITICO – Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the expanse of the United States’ border with Mexico is not going to happen, as far as former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is concerned. At least not in the physical sense.
“I’m for Donald Trump, and he says we’re going to build a wall, the Mexicans are gonna pay for it,” Perry told Snapchat’s Peter Hamby.
Hamby remarked, “It’s not going to happen.”
“Well, it’s not,” Perry said, explaining, “It’s a wall, but it’s a technological wall, it’s a digital wall.”
Perry, who is supporting Trump, commented, “There are some that hear this is going to be 1,200 miles from Brownsville to El Paso, 30-foot high, and listen, I know you can’t do that. “
Trump has admitted in the past that the wall wouldn’t be built where there are already natural barriers, but he’s always maintained that it would be built.
Should Trump win the presidency, I think we’ll all find that Perry is right and that Trump was only promising to build a physical wall to get elected.
In other words, everything is negotiable.