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At Easter Egg Roll, Donald Trump tells a kid the wall is ‘being built right now’

U.S. President Donald Trump made a comment about the border wall at the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 22 – Apr 22, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump gave a kid assurances that the wall is being built on Easter Monday.

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Precisely what is being built, and whether that can be considered the wall that he promised during his election campaign, is another question entirely.

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During the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, Trump was colouring with kids when he said, “oh, it’s happening, it’s being built now.”

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The president then said, “there’s a young guy just said, ‘keep building that wall.’ Can you believe this?

“He’s going to be a conservative someday.”

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Whether the wall is being “built” depends largely on one’s conception of where a project stands in its construction phase.

Trump hasn’t yet finished any new fencing or barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but he’s working on it, AP noted.

So far, he’s replaced fencing that was already in place.

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Trump has pledged new fencing in the Rio Grande Valley, and contractors have been carrying out preparatory work in the area.

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Construction was projected to start earlier this month.

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In December, just as the president oversaw a government shutdown over the issue of funding a border wall, Trump said he expects to build 550 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, significantly less than the 2,000 miles that represent its total length.

During his campaign, he had pledged to build a “great, great wall” but didn’t specify precisely how much he planned to construct there.

— With files from The Associated Press

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