“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall,” President Donald Trump said on June 16, 2015, when he announced his White House run.
“Mark my words,” he said.
Americans did mark – and many mocked – those words, which Trump repeated at virtually every campaign stop after that announcement, up through the general election. But he is now arguing that he never said Mexico would pay for the wall directly.
