Trump compares the border wall to the wall around Obama's home

President Donald Trump compared his border wall project on Sunday with a fence-like fence that surrounds Barack and Michelle Obama's home at Washington.

] "President and Mrs. Obama built / have a ten-foot wall around their home / Washington complex," Trump said in a tweet Sunday afternoon. "I agree, absolutely necessary for their safety. The United States needs the same thing, a slightly larger version!

According to TODAY, the Obama bought their home in the Kalorama neighborhood in 2017 for $ 8 million after renting it for two and a half years.

A couple built a fence-like wall and published photos showing what appeared to be the construction of a few brick columns. The project has since been completed.

Another photo of the house in Town and Country magazine showed a metal door and brick columns. The Obama has also added guard posts.

A spokeswoman for Obamas declined to comment, but in her book "Becoming," published in November, Michelle Obama wrote that the fact that Trump had adopted false theories of conspiracy had made him fear for the safety of his family.

"And if someone with an unstable mind was loading a gun to fire and went to Washington? "What if this person was looking for our daughters? Donald Trump, with his noisy and reckless insinuations, put the safety of my family at risk. "

Trump's tweet comes amid a partial government shutdown that began on Dec. 22 following his request that Congress fund a $ 5 billion wall against the US's southern border. He threatened to "close" the border if money was not approved.

Congress Democrats, who take control of the House of Representatives after their return to Washington next month, have showed little interest in funding what the new deputy chief of the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi A staff member described as "immoral, inefficient and expensive wall – the wall for which he had specifically promised that Mexico would pay "

After a meeting with Trump on Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C, told reporters that" on many fronts, the President is in a good mood. "

" He feels that he has to keep the promise of securing our border, "said Graham, adding," He is very willing to associate the financing of the walls with others make it a win-win for the country. "