Trump visited his border wall prototypes for the first time - and the photos are great
Both supporters and protesters showed up to greet the president and express how they felt about his long-promised wall on Tuesday.
Protesters converged on both sides of the border — on the Mexican side in Tijuana, people hoisted up signs written in Spanish and what looked like a piñata resembling Trump.
Trump spoke to media in front of one of the concrete prototypes, noting that it would be one of the hardest models to scale, but was disappointed it lacked the "see-through" component he desired.
"You have to have see-through," Trump said. "You don't know what's on the other side of the wall … You could be two feet in front of a criminal cartel."
Two of the eight prototypes are partially see-through.
Trump has also previously explained that the transparency component will allow people on the US side to avoid getting hit by "large sacks of drugs" catapulted over the wall.
Source: Business Insider
Trump went on to point out the border fencing just behind the prototypes, which he noted were patched up in multiple places from where immigrants or drug smugglers cut holes.
"If you don't have a wall system, we're not going to have a country," Trump said.
In the end, the tactical teams that tested the wall believe it's likely that components of multiple prototypes will be merged to create different walls depending on what type of land they'll be constructed on.
Source: Business Insider
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