Trump ‘called for alligator moats to keep out migrants’

DONALD Trump suggested shooting illegal migrants in the legs and fortifying the Us-Mexico border wall with a moat filled with snakes or alligators, it was claimed yesterday.

The President is said to have come up with his gruesome idea during an Oval Office meeting. He also reportedly suggested electrifying the southern border wall and putting spikes on top that could puncture human flesh.

Mr Trump has publicly suggested soldiers shoot migrants if they throw rocks but White House aides later told him that would be illegal.

But in private, his imagination ran wilder and panicking staff had to try to placate him. Officials went so far as to do a costing for the plan to build a waterfilled trench and stock it with dangerous reptiles, The New York Times reported.

To his intense frustration, his string of extreme ideas were rejected on grounds of cost and legality, it is claimed.

Aides say Mr Trump’s obsession with illegal migrants crossing the 2,000-mile border prompted him to threaten to close it completely by noon the next day, poten

‘You are making me look an idiot’

tially stranding thousands of Americans in Mexico. This threat ‘touched off a frenzied week of presidential rages, roundthe-clock staff panic and far more White House turmoil than was known at the time’, the newspaper reported.

As aides rejected his presidential brainwaves one by one, Mr Trump is said to have become increasingly irate. ‘You are making me look like an idiot’, he reportedly shouted. ‘i ran on this. it’s my issue.’

Mr Trump also demanded his planned border wall be painted black, only for then homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to tell him it would cost an extra $1million a mile. When he ordered the pace of construction to be speeded up, she said that would require permission from property owners. Mr Trump reportedly replied that the government should ‘take the land… and let them sue us’.

He dismissed the claims as ‘fake news’, writing on Twitter: ‘i may be tough on border security, but not that tough. The press has gone crazy.’