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Donald Trump has attacked the late former first lady Barbara Bush in a newspaper interview a day after posting a satirical alt-right meme of ex-vice-president Joe Biden on Twitter.

“I see that you are on the job and presidential, as always,” Mr Biden responded to the tweet, which sits pinned to the top of the president’s Twitter profile. The video in question sends up Mr Biden’s apology after he was accused of inappropriate conduct towards women while on the campaign trail, and was circulated by Donald Trump Jr earlier on Thursday.

Mr Trump then made a stop in Calexico, California, to inspect construction work on his US-Mexico wall after rowing back on his threat to close the border, the trip providing a timely change of focus for the president after thousands of protesters campaigned outside the White House and in New York’s Times Square to demand the release of the Mueller report in full.

While in southern California, Mr Trump heard from officials who praised his leadership and promised to build some 400 miles of border wall in the next year and a half.

Mr Trump, during a round table with Border Patrol officials, said that the US has no more room for immigrants — and thanked Mexican officials for what he described as new efforts to stop migrants from making it to the US-Mexico border.

The White House, prior to Mr Trump's visit to the border, hailed the 2-miles of fencing there as the first completed section of the president's border wall.

But, Mr Trump cannot take full credit for the construction: Border barriers have existed there for decades, and plans for the recent renovations first began to develop during the presidency of Barack Obama.

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Key Points

• President lays into Washington Post day after New York Times attack
• Trump en route to California to visit border wall construction site
• Joe Biden hits back after Trump posts alt-right meme spoofing apology
• Trump mocks late first lady Barbara Bush: 'Look what I did to her sons'
• Protesters in cities across US demand release of Mueller report

[5 April 2019 21:31 · Clark Mindock]

"Governor Newsom honestly is living in a different world," Mr Trump just said when asked about critiques of the president from the California governor.

"If he keeps living there lots of problems for the people of California," Mr Trump said.

[5 April 2019 22:03 · Clark Mindock]

Mr Trump is now shaking hands at the border wall.

He says the wall "looks great", and that it is more effective than the previous stretch of wall.

[5 April 2019 22:11 · Clark Mindock]

The sheriff of Pima County, Arizona just said that his deputies find 100 bodies a year along the border, bolstering the argument that the border situation is a humanitarian crisis.