by Itunuoluwa Adebo

US Press secretary Sean Spicer confused reporters and the world with his TV presentation on border security Wednesday , leaving everyone asking the question, “When is a wall, a wall and when is it a fence?”

“This is what exists right now throughout our country,” he declared, gesturing towards four images of ageing, flimsy defences. “You see a place where cars can literally create little things and drive over. You’ve got places that can get burrowed under. That one they’ve created. That one doesn’t seem to be effective at keeping people in it.”

[In case you missed it] FBI Director Comey is “mildly nauseous” at insinuations that he swayed elections

Proceeding with his presentation, he said “These sorry images represented the country’s current border security, adding that every time someone broke through, it cost just under $1,000 to fix. “Now to the next slide,” he said, teasing a reporter: “You had no idea you were getting this, did you?”

Spicer said: “We have a porous border right now with broken fences, things that can be cut through, places that can just literally be driven over. And to replace this with a 20ft high bollard wall will protect our country, something that the DHS [Department of Homeland Security] has designated the most effective way to do this. So that’s what we got out of this bill.”

One of the journalist wondered, did the new set of photos on display show walls or fences? At this point, he got defensive and said: “That is called a bollard wall. That is called a levee wall. There are various types of wall that can be built, under the legislation that was just passed.”

[See Also] Meet the woman who rejected Barrack Obama’s proposal twice

There was some more agitated back and forth with the press. Under the spending bill, Spicer promised, a chain link fence visible in the photos would be replaced with a bollard wall. Another journalist interjected: “It’s not the wall the president promised.”

Spicer insisted: “What I’m telling anybody is that the president said he was going to build the wall and he’s doing it, and he’s using the best technology.”  It seems the Trump administration is confused about the concept of a border wall and so is the United States.