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Trump Says ‘Conservative’ Kid at Easter Egg Roll Told Him to ‘Keep Building That Wall’

In between games of “Be Best” hopscotch and the namesake event at the White House’s Easter egg roll, a child apparently couldn’t pass up the chance to press Donald Trump on one of his signature campaign promises.

As he colored cards for service members on the White House’s South Lawn, Trump responded to a question from one of the children alongside him.

“I will. Oh, It’s happening. It’s being built now,” Trump told the child, before speaking up to share the conversation with reporters. “Here’s a young guy who said, ‘Keep building that wall.’ Can you believe that?”

“He’s going to be a conservative someday!” Trump continued.

Building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has been among the most divisive of the president’s policy goals since the day he announced his run for the White House in 2015. Lawmakers have thus far stymied his request by providing minimal funding for the kind of barrier Trump originally envisioned.

The standoff over his wall came to a head at the end of last year when Trump plunged parts of the government into the longest shutdown in history, refusing to fund the government unless lawmakers relented on his funding requests for a border wall.

Beyond his wall discussion with a confirmed non-voter, Trump also discussed up some non-egg related matters, including just how loyal his staffers are and how the military was apparently “very depleted.”

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