What happened to "Mexico will pay" and "it's so easy"???

Trump: The border wall 'will get built,' by the military if necessary

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday that his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border “will get built,” threatening to use the military if need be, while claiming that much progress has already been made on the structure.

Trump’s comments come as he is set to meet later in the day with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to end a stalemate over border wall funding that threatens to shut down large swaths of the government next week.

While both the White House and Democratic leaders have dug their heels in on the issue, Trump on Tuesday hit Democrats for opposing his $5 billion request for border wall funding for “strictly political reasons and because they have been pulled so far left,” citing Pelosi’s ongoing battle to become the next House speaker for her refusal to budge.

Pelosi and Schumer dismissed the notion that Democrats are holding up any government funding deal, reminding him in a statement Monday that at least for now, the legislative and executive branches of government remain under Republican control.

"This holiday season, the president knows full well that his wall proposal does not have the votes to pass the House and Senate, and should not be an obstacle to a bipartisan agreement,” they said in a joint statement.

His Twitter messages also come on the heels of an Associated Press report that thousands of active duty U.S. troops deployed to the border in October will begin the withdrawal process and will be pulled out “before the holidays.”

The president lauded the military for their assistance at the border, which mostly comprised of transportation and back up for border patrol in addition to installing razor wire along existing fencing to block migrants from crossing illegally.

He asserted that when it came to a border wall, “people do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built.” Trump also claimed that his administration has “already built large new sections & fully renovated others, making them like new."

While Congress has provided funding for border security, the massive spending bill Trump signed this spring was mostly restricted to fencing and border protection as a whole rather than a Trump-style wall or even the construction of wall prototypes.

He appeared to mix up the two again Tuesday when he claimed that Democrats voted in 2006 for a “wall,” which seems to refer to 2006 legislation to construct fencing along the southern border, even though it garnered little Democratic support in the House.

“If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall,” Trump wrote. “They know how important it is!”

Trump also appeared to claim victory over asylum-seeking migrants who had traveled through Central America and Mexico, writing that “people have not been able to get through our newly built Walls, makeshift Walls & Fences, or Border Patrol Officers & Military.”

The migrants “are now staying in Mexico or going back to their original countries,” Trump claimed, adding that “our Southern Border is now Secure and will remain that way.”