President Donald Trump is being trolled by critics and on the Twittersphere for mistakingly saying Wednesday his administration is "building a wall in Colorado."
"And we're building a wall on the border of New Mexico, and we're building a wall in Colorado," Trump told a Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. "We're building a beautiful wall. A big one that really works. That you can't get over; that you can't get under. And we're building a wall in Texas.
"And we're not building a wall in Kansas, but they get the benefit of the walls we just mentioned."
The context of Trump's speech suggests he had intended to refer to wall construction along the Colorado River in Arizona, which does border Mexico. Colorado, north of New Mexico's state border, does not border the country of Mexico.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., was among those to troll the president's gaffe, tweeting a sharpie-edited U.S. map with a line on the Mexico border, cutting through the top of New Mexico's border with Colorado.
The sharpie edit was a double troll of President Trump's infamous hurricane prediction for Alabama earlier this fall.
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper tweeted:
"Hey @TeamHeinrich & @tomudall do one of you want to break it to @realDonaldTrump that Colorado's border is with New Mexico, not Mexico...or should I?"
George Conway, the lawyer husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, added to his nonstop trolling of his wife's boss, tweeting:
"We can confidently say that Mexico is never going to pay for a wall with Colorado."
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