‘We’ll Put It Up’: Trump Says He’s Getting Border Wall Materials Back After Biden Sold Them Off

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to complete the border wall with materials that former President Joe Biden sold off “for pennies on the dollar,” as The Daily Wire first reported in December.

The president spoke with the press on Wednesday at the Kennedy Center after announcing the recipients of the annual Kennedy Center Honors. Asked by The Daily Wire about reports that parts of the border wall will be returned to the federal government, Trump promised: “We are taking that wall back.”

The president pointed to the Biden administration’s efforts to sell off the wall materials. Videos obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in December showed trucks hauling away unused sections of the wall from a section of the border just south of Tucson, Arizona, a hotspot for illegal crossings during the Biden administration.

“They sold the wall,” the president said. “This is expensive stuff. Hardened steel, very expensive. 9,000-pound concrete and rebar. Rebar is very expensive. The hardest rebar. It’s very hard to cut. You have different materials. It’s very hard to cut. They cut it down if they can. It’s very hard to cut.”

“Biden sold it for pennies on the dollar, $0.03 on the dollar, $0.04 on the dollar, he sold it,” Trump added.

“Well, Pam Bondi has been working very hard on suing that company and I think they’ve reached a settlement where we’re taking the wall back,” Trump added, glancing at the attorney general, who was watching the president’s remarks along with other administration officials. “But they stole the wall from us. That wall was so expensive to build. And we had it, as you know, hundreds of miles of it. They came along and they basically sold it for scrap. What a shame that is.”

“But that was when I first realized that these people actually want to have open borders,” he added of the Biden administration. “No country — poor countries don’t have open borders. We had open borders where people just walked in, didn’t matter what they look like, who they were, they could have — we had 11,888 murderers. Half of whom killed more than one person. Literally. Killed more than one person. And this is who we took into our country. So the wall is the least of it.”

“We are going to take the wall back,” he said again. “We are paying a small amount of money, as I understand it, to get it back, to get rid of the litigation. We’ll take it back. We’ll put it up.”

.@MaryMargOlohan: Biden was auctioning off border wall materials, now they’re selling them back… Are you finishing the wall? @POTUS: Biden sold it for scrap… That’s when I first realized they really wanted open borders… We’re gonna take the wall back and put it up. pic.twitter.com/yfV26qvVhV

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 13, 2025

“I built hundreds of miles of wall and I was getting very close,” the president said. “I actually finished the wall but then I added another 200 miles…I got it to the specifications of the border patrol and ICE, they wanted steel they wanted concrete inside, they wanted rebar inside that, they wanted it to have wires, the walls are wired for all the internet stuff and security things.”

“And we built it, hundreds of miles,” Trump explained. “We did great. That’s one of the reasons even now we are able to have such good [illegal immigration] numbers at 0, essentially, very little people coming in … I was going to do another 200 because that’s the way it is. We were all set to do it, and then we had the bad election result, horrible horrible what happened to our country, what they’ve allowed to happen to our country.”

The Daily Wire’s Spencer Lindquist previously reported that GovPlanet, the government supply auctioning site listing the border wall materials, has said that it will expedite the return of the materials and expressed support for the Trump administration’s border security plans.

“GovPlanet has reached an agreement, working with the Office of the Border Czar, to return border wall materials that were previously deemed surplus and sourced by the federal government to GovPlanet via existing contracts,” the company explained. “We are expediting the transfer of these materials to support the administration’s border protection plans.”

GovPlanet did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.