<p class="title">Trump says building a wall... in Colorado</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pittsburg, Oct 24 (AFP) Donald Trump has made building a barrier to stop migrants on the US-Mexico border a central plank of his presidency, but on Wednesday, he came up with a puzzling new twist to the initiative: a wall in Colorado.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The problem? Colorado lies well within the United States, though its large southern neighbour New Mexico does border Mexico.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"You know why we are going to win New Mexico? Because they want safety on their border," Trump said during a speech in Pittsburgh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And we are building a wall on the border of New Mexico, and we are building a wall in Colorado," he continued. "We are building a beautiful wall, a big one that really works, that you can't get over, you can't get under."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And we are building a wall in Texas, and we are not building a wall in Kansas, but they get the benefit of the walls that we just mentioned," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Building a wall on the southern border with Mexico was one of the signature promises of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, but Congress has refused to pay for its construction.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Politicians and social media users reacted to Trump's comment with bafflement and mockery.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Well, this is awkward... Colorado doesn't border Mexico," tweeted the state's Governor Jared Polis.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Good thing Colorado now offers free full-day kindergarten so our kids can learn basic geography."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy tweeted a map showing a new international border drawn around New Mexico and a line obscuring the first half of the state's name so that it reads: Mexico.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump later tweeted he had spoken of building a wall in Colorado "kiddingly", and "referred to people in the very packed auditorium, from Colorado & Kansas, getting the benefit of the Border Wall!"</p>
<p class="title">Trump says building a wall... in Colorado</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pittsburg, Oct 24 (AFP) Donald Trump has made building a barrier to stop migrants on the US-Mexico border a central plank of his presidency, but on Wednesday, he came up with a puzzling new twist to the initiative: a wall in Colorado.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The problem? Colorado lies well within the United States, though its large southern neighbour New Mexico does border Mexico.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"You know why we are going to win New Mexico? Because they want safety on their border," Trump said during a speech in Pittsburgh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And we are building a wall on the border of New Mexico, and we are building a wall in Colorado," he continued. "We are building a beautiful wall, a big one that really works, that you can't get over, you can't get under."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And we are building a wall in Texas, and we are not building a wall in Kansas, but they get the benefit of the walls that we just mentioned," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Building a wall on the southern border with Mexico was one of the signature promises of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, but Congress has refused to pay for its construction.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Politicians and social media users reacted to Trump's comment with bafflement and mockery.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Well, this is awkward... Colorado doesn't border Mexico," tweeted the state's Governor Jared Polis.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Good thing Colorado now offers free full-day kindergarten so our kids can learn basic geography."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy tweeted a map showing a new international border drawn around New Mexico and a line obscuring the first half of the state's name so that it reads: Mexico.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump later tweeted he had spoken of building a wall in Colorado "kiddingly", and "referred to people in the very packed auditorium, from Colorado & Kansas, getting the benefit of the Border Wall!"</p>