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Trump Suggested Building A 3,000-Mile Wall Across The Sahara Desert
If you thought Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the US–Mexico border was ambitious, that’s nothing compared to this: The president reportedly suggested to senior Spanish diplomats that Spain should build a wall across the entire Sahara, the largest hot desert in the world, to curb immigration from Africa.
Josep Borrell, Spain’s foreign minister, recounted his conversation with Trump at a lunch in Madrid this week, as reported in Spanish media.
Met with a skeptical reaction from Spanish officials, Borrell says, Trump then said, “The border with the Sahara cannot be bigger than ours with Mexico.”
The US–Mexico Border is just under 2,000 miles long, while the Sahara is at least 3,000 miles across.
Trump’s remarks are likely to have been made during the visit of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia to Washington, DC, in June, when Borrell, a former president of the European Parliament, was among the dignitaries present.
Spain was keen not to draw any more attention to Trump’s suggestion. A spokesperson for the country’s Foreign Ministry said: “We can confirm that’s what the minister said, but we won’t be making any further comment on the minister’s remarks.”
