Trump Reportedly Proposed Border Wall Covered with Solar Panels to GOP Lawmakers

President Donald Trump pitched an idea for a border wall covered in solar panels in a meeting with Republican lawmakers on Tuesday, according to Axios.

Trump reportedly said that the “electricity generated” by the panels could be “used to pay for the cost” of the wall.

Trump’s proposed wall on the Southern border has been an fixation of the president and his supporters since he descended the gilded escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015, pledging to end illegal immigration into the country.

His hopes have been so far dashed by a Congress unwilling to allocate funding for a wall most lawmakers see as little more than symbolic. And despite repeatedly promising on the campaign trail that Mexico would somehow pay for the wall on its border, that wish is unlikely to bear out.

According to people with knowledge of Trump’s meeting with Congressional leaders quoted in the Axios story, the president “said his vision was a wall 40 feet to 50 feet high and covered with solar panels so they’d be ‘beautiful structures.'”

He also reportedly “told the lawmakers they could talk about the solar-paneled wall as long as they said it was his idea.”

Trump’s solar-powered proposal was confirmed by Politico’s Jack Dawsey in a tweet:

Trump told legislative leaders this afternoon about a proposal to put solar panels on the border wall, per two sources.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 6, 2017

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