President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to finish the border wall using materials that former President Joe Biden sold off “for pennies on the dollar,” as first reported by The Daily Wire in December.
Speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Center after unveiling this year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients, Trump was asked by The Daily Wire about reports that sections of the wall would be returned to the federal government. His response: “We are taking that wall back.
“They sold the wall,” the president said. “This is expensive stuff. Hardened steel, very expensive. 9,000-pound concrete and rebar. Rebar is very expensive. The hardest rebar. It’s very hard to cut. You have different materials. It’s very hard to cut. They cut it down if they can. It’s very hard to cut.”
“Biden sold it for pennies on the dollar, $0.03 on the dollar, $0.04 on the dollar, he sold it,” Trump added.
“Well, Pam Bondi has been working very hard on suing that company and I think they’ve reached a settlement where we’re taking the wall back,” Trump added. “But they stole the wall from us. That wall was so expensive to build. And we had it, as you know, hundreds of miles of it. They came along and they basically sold it for scrap. What a shame that is.”
“But that was when I first realized that these people actually want to have open borders,” he added of the Biden admin. “No country — poor countries don’t have open borders. We had open borders where people just walked in, didn’t matter what they look like, who they were, they could have — we had 11,888 murderers. Half of whom killed more than one person. Literally. Killed more than one person. And this is who we took into our country. So the wall is the least of it.”
“We are going to take the wall back,” he said again. “We are paying a small amount of money, as I understand it, to get it back, to get rid of the litigation. We’ll take it back. We’ll put it up.”
“I built hundreds of miles of wall and I was getting very close,” the president said. “I actually finished the wall but then I added another 200 miles…I got it to the specifications of the border patrol and ICE, they wanted steel they wanted concrete inside, they wanted rebar inside that, they wanted it to have wires, the walls are wired for all the internet stuff and security things.”
“And we built it, hundreds of miles,” Trump explained. “We did great. That’s one of the reasons even now we are able to have such good [illegal immigration] numbers at 0, essentially, very little people coming in … I was going to do another 200 because that’s the way it is. We were all set to do it, and then we had the bad election result, horrible horrible what happened to our country, what they’ve allowed to happen to our country.”
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.@MaryMargOlohan: Biden was auctioning off border wall materials, now they're selling them back… Are you finishing the wall? @POTUS: Biden sold it for scrap… That's when I first realized they really wanted open borders… We're gonna take the wall back and put it up. pic.twitter.com/yfV26qvVhV
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 13, 2025
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