President Donald Trump's daily diet of Fox News could apparently affect who gets to build his “big, beautiful” border wall. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the president has been pushing for North Dakota construction firm Fisher Industries to win the contract for Trump's signature campaign promise, even as the U.S. Army Corps has advised against it. And it's easy to understand why Trump is so enamored with the firm: C.E.O. Tommy Fisher just so happens to be a G.O.P. donor who's frequently made his case for building the border wall on Fox News. “He’s been very aggressive on T.V.,” North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer said about Fisher. “You know who else watches Fox News?”

Per the Post, Fisher has been lobbying for his company to be awarded the border wall contract via conservative media appearances, in which he argues that the firm could do the work cheaply and quickly, and even claim they can build 200 miles of wall in less than a year. Fisher has also joined with the nonprofit organization We Build the Wall—whose advisors include such Trump allies as Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach—to start building a wall on private land in Sunland Park, New Mexico. The C.E.O. reportedly believes his privately-funded wall will win over the Army Corps, the agency with contracting authority for the border project, and show off just what his company can do. “We’ll prove it in a half mile stretch where they said it couldn’t be done,” Fisher said about the construction project.

Fisher's bold claims about his company's border wall methods have made him something of a “conservative cause celebre,” the Post noted—and Trump is among those buying into the hype. The president has reportedly “aggressively pushed” Fisher “repeatedly” to officials from the U.S. Army Corps and Department of Homeland Security since first hearing about the firm in early 2019, and has grown frustrated when officials have pushed back. “The president got very spun up about it,” one source told the Post about Trump's pro-Fisher arguments in a meeting with military and D.H.S. officials. Fisher's conservative fanbase also reportedly includes Jared Kushner and Cramer, who the Post noted coincidentally received $10,000 in campaign donations from Fisher and his wife in 2018. (Cramer told the Post the donations did not affect him advocating for Fisher building the border wall, saying his support began “before they were a financial contributor. For no other reason than the fact that he’s a constituent of mine.”)

The trouble with Trump's Fisher cheerleading, though, is that according to the Army Corps, Fisher and his firm aren't actually up to the job. Though Fisher attorney Scott Sleight claimed the company uses “vastly superior construction methods and capabilities,” the Post reported that Army Corps of Engineers officials found Fisher's border wall proposal didn't meet the project's requirements—and that the firm's low costs came at the expense of their wall's quality and sophistication. “The system he is proposing does not meet the operational requirements of U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” an Army Corps official said. The Army Corps has apparently added Fisher to the pool of border wall competitors at the White House's urging, but they've been clear about their misgivings, meeting Kushner several times to argue against Fisher. Army Corps Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite and former D.H.S. head Kirstjen Nielsen also appealed to the president directly, telling him he “could not just pick a company.” According to the Post, the president pushing Fisher despite the company's incompetence could have broader implications, as his intervention could violate procurement rules that “require government agencies to seek competitive bids, free of political interference.” Yet despite all this, Trump has remained decidedly pro-Fisher anyway. “He said these other guys were full of shit,” an official said about Trump's meeting with the Army Corps and D.H.S. officials.