Building wall least important thing: Trump to Mexican prez

The Washington Post on Thursday posted highly classified transcripts of Trump's conversations with Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in yet another embarrassing leak for the US President.

Trump promised throughout the 2016 campaign that not only will a wall on the Mexican-American border be built, but that Mexico would pay for it. Trump says he is building the wall to stop illegal immigration from Mexico.

In his conversation with Nieto, Trump is heard pleading that the Mexican president should stop saying that Mexico would not pay for the wall.

Trump seems to acknowledge that his threats to make Mexico pay had left him cornered politically, saying the fact is "we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall I have to".

"Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about. But in terms of dollars or pesos it is the least important thing. I know how to build very inexpensively, so it will be much lower than these numbers I am being presented with, and it will be a better wall and it will look nice. And it will do the job," Trump said, while talking on the issue of building the wall on the Mexican- American border.

As per the transcripts, Trump is heard asking the Mexican leader not to tell the press that Mexico would not pay for the construction of the wall along the US-Mexico border. The building of the wall was one of the major electoral promises of the US president. During his election campaign, Trump had said that Mexico would pay for the wall.

Pena Nieto has repeatedly said that Mexico will not pay for the wall. "You cannot say that to the press. The press is going to go with that and I cannot live with that. You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances," Trump told Pena Nieto.