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Trump's pitch for making the Mexico border wall 'beautiful': add solar panels

The president’s ‘put a solar panel on it’ policy to fund the wall may be expensive, impossible to build – and it’s unclear what the energy would be used for
TOPSHOT - A Mexican family stands next to the border wall between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on May 23, 2017. The United States is about to complete the construction of a metal wall nearly seven meters high on the border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, replacing a wire mesh fence dating back to 1986, officials said. / AFP PHOTO / HERIKA MARTINEZ / Getty Images

The president this week proposed a radical way to fund his proposed Mexican border wall: covering it in solar panels.

The same Donald Trump who has spent years criticizing renewable energy as uneconomical and who has pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement has now floated the idea of adding solar panels to his proposed barrier along the the US–Mexico border.

The president believes the panels would about a meeting Trump had with Republican leaders.

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