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But you cannot say that to the press. The press is going to go with that and I cannot live with that.<\/span> You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Trump<\/p>\n

The only thing I will ask you though is on the wall, you and I both have a political problem. My people stand up and say, \u201cMexico will pay for the wall\u201d and your people probably say something in a similar but slightly different language. But the fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall \u2013 I have to. I have been talking about it for a two year period, and the reason I say they are going to pay for the wall is because Mexico has made a fortune out of the stupidity of U.S. trade representatives. They are beating us at trade and they are beating us at the border, and they are killing us with drugs. Now I know you are not involved with that, but regardless of who is making all the money, billions and billions and billions \u2013 some people say more \u2013 is being made on drug trafficking that is coming through Mexico. Some people say that the business of drug trafficking is bigger than the business of taking our factory jobs. So what I would like to recommend is \u2013 if we are going to have continued dialogue \u2013 we will work out the wall. They are going to say, \u201cwho is going to pay for the wall, Mr. President?\u201d to both of us, and we should both say, \u201cwe will work it out.\u201d It will work out in the formula somehow. As opposed to you saying, \u201cwe will not pay\u201d and me saying, \u201cwe will not pay.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because you and I are both at a point now where we are both saying we are not to pay for the wall. From a political standpoint, that is what we will say. We cannot say that anymore because if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that. I am willing to say that we will work it out, but that means it will come out in the wash and that is okay. But you cannot say anymore that the United States is going to pay for the wall. I am just going to say that we are working it out. Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about. But in terms of dollars \u2013 or pesos \u2013 it is the least important thing<\/strong>. I know how to build very inexpensively, so it will be much lower than these numbers I am being presented with, and it will be a better wall and it will look nice. And it will do the job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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