‘Build the wall’ was just a defensive set-piece strategy, claims Trump ahead of US-Mexico football clash

Misogynistic, racist bellend Newly-elected leader of the Greatest Country on Earth™ Donald Trump has already appeared to backtrack on one of his key election promises, after announcing that his commitment to building a wall between the USA and Mexico was simply a reference to Team USA’s defensive set-piece strategy for Friday's World Cup qualifier with their Latin neighbours.

Wary of Mexican forward Giovani dos Santos’s dead ball ability, Trump has already taken a hardline approach to countering the former Tottenham Hotspur flop legend’s threat from free-kicks.

‘We’re gonna build a wall like no other team has built a wall before. I know other teams have built a wall but this wall is gonna be so huge, sooo huge, there’s no chance those Mexicans will ever manage to kick the ball into our goalbag from a free shoot. I’m talking eleven, twelve, even fifteen big, strong all-American heroes standing in this wall, and it’s gonna be awesome. So awesome. And we’re going to go straight up the other end and score so, so many goals, and we’re going to be winning so bigly by the end that there’ll be nothing they can do about it.’

Mexican coach Juan Carlos Osorio confirmed that contrary to Trump’s claims, the Mexican players would not be assisting their American counterparts in constructing an orderly wall on the edge of the penalty area and suggested they could perhaps learn the rules of football themselves.

Donald Trump did not take kindly to being explained how the sport works