Backing the US President’s record, one year on from his astounding election victory over Hillary Clinton, political commentator Mica Mosbacher blamed Washington for the delay in building the wall.
Speaking on Newsnight she said: “He will build a wall, it will go through Congress.”
Building a border wall with Mexico was a key promise of Trump’s election campaign that saw him shock the world as he became President of the United States.
But a year on from his election victory work has not begun on the border wall which remains a popular policy with his base.
During his campaign, Trump said: “I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me –and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
Although the US President has faced criticism with construction yet to start, several prototypes have been completed.
Ms Mosbacher: “There are prototypes underway right now for a wall, we do still have to get funding through Congress.”
The advisor attacked the Congress and the Senate for failing to get behind the policies that helped the Trump to the White House.
She said: “I will say as a Republican, I along with many Republicans, and Republican donors am extremely frustrated with our do-nothing Congress and especially the Senate for the fact that we did not pass Obamacare repeal.
“There is only so much the President can do, but what I feel he has done lately that is very important for this country is he is trying to reach across the aisle and that is how you get the best legislation in this country.”
Six companies submitted designs between 18 and 30 feet high, with the construction of eight prototypes completed in October.
Testing of the walls began earlier this month with an unnamed private company attempting to discover weaknesses in the designs.
The author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, Kurt Andersen claimed in 2016 Trump sensed America was weak enough for him to win.
He said: “I do think he understood it in some visceral sense that now was the time after having flirted with the idea of running for President for 30 years that it could work.
“That America’s sense of reality versus fiction had become iffy enough that he had a chance.”
Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis claimed that suggestion was far-fetched and that “Trump believed his own reality”.
Andersen said: “He lies and he believes… He simply has no fixed commitment to factual empirical reality”.