Rick Perry: Donald Trump's Wall With Mexico Will Be a 'Digital Wall'

Donald Trump may say he's going to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and make the Mexican government pay for it, but even a growing number of Republicans are now pooh-poohing Trump's absurd plan.

Count among the non-believers former 2016 rival and Texas governor Rick Perry, who suggested on Monday that maybe we all just misunderstand Trump because, really, it's a "digital wall."

"I’m for Donald Trump, and he says we’re going to build a wall, the Mexicans are gonna pay for it," Perry told Snapchat's Peter Hamby on "Good Luck America."

"It's not going to happen," Hamby fired back.

Perry quickly abandoned the notion, saying, "Well, it's not." He added: "It's a wall, but it's a technological wall, it's a digital wall." Perry offered no further explanation as to what this "digital wall" entails.

A call to the Trump campaign asking for his position on the "digital wall" with Mexico went unreturned.

But Perry, who is supporting Trump, reiterated the impracticability of a physical wall, saying, "There are some that hear this is going to be 1,200 miles from Brownsville to El Paso, 30-foot high, and listen, I know you can’t do that."

The former governor had previously indicated skepticism about Trump's wall, telling a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa, in January that in his estimation construction would take "literally years."

And what is Trump's defense when it comes to feasibility? It's not like we're building the Great Wall of China.

"What we’re doing is we have 2,000 miles, right? Two thousand miles. It’s long but not 13,000 miles like they have in China," Trump said on MSNBC in February. "Of the 2,000, we don’t need 2,000. We need 1,000 because we have natural barriers."

And ever the dealmaker, Trump said the extent of the wall is up for negotiation.

"Everything — by the way, it is negotiable. Things are negotiable, I'll be honest with you, you know I make the wall 2 feet shorter or something. I mean everything is negotiable," Trump said of building the wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, a key plank of his campaign.

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