US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump (Picture: Reuters)

Donald Trump has suggested building a transparent wall at the border with Mexico so people don’t get hit by drugs that are thrown over.

It wasn’t quite clear what he meant by ‘transparent’ but he may have been suggesting something see-through like glass or plastic.

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‘One of the things with the wall is you need transparency,’ he told journalists on Thursday while on Air Force One.

The US president was travelling to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris for Bastille Day.


He added: ‘You have to be able to see through it. So it could be a steel wall with openings, but you have to have openings because you have to see what’s on the other wide of the wall.’



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Partial view of the US-Mexico border wall (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Partial view of the US-Mexico border wall (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

The US president admitted the idea may be a little ‘crazy’ but said he was concerned someone would be injured by a falling drugs package.

He added: ‘And I’ll give you an example. As horrible as it sounds, when they throw large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them.

‘They hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over.

‘As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall. But we have some incredible designs.’

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Trump is worried people could get hit by drugs packages (Picture: Reuters)

His proposal was mocked by former Mexican politician Andres Rozental.

Mr Rozental, who was deputy foreign minister, called the proposal ‘the most ridiculous thing I have heard in many, many years’.

He also told Sky News it didn’t make any sense.

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