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Trump opens Easter Egg Roll with talk of border wall

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Donald Trump has launched this year’s staging of one of the oldest White House traditions – the annual Easter Egg Roll.
By Darlene Superville, Associated Press
April 22 2019 7:50 PM
Donald Trump has launched this year’s staging of one of the oldest White House traditions – the annual Easter Egg Roll.
The president blew a whistle and sent spoon-wielding children into a frenzy as they used the wooden utensils to coax hard-boiled eggs to the finish line.
“This is 141 years that we’ve been doing this,” Mr Trump said, addressing the crowd from the Truman Balcony, where he was joined by first lady Melania Trump before they went downstairs to mingle with guests on the South Lawn.
Today, @FLOTUS Melania and I are honored to host the 2019 @WhiteHouse Easter Egg Roll! pic.twitter.com/dKxSefCl7H
“I don’t remember the first one,” he joked of the tradition that began in 1878 under President Rutherford B Hayes.
After blowing the whistle to begin one of many egg rolls taking place throughout the day, he joined children seated at a picnic table, where they coloured cards for US troops.
He appeared to answer a question from one youngster about the wall the president wants to build along the Mexico border.
“Oh, it’s happening. It’s being built now,” Mr Trump said at the table. “There’s a young guy just said, ‘Keep building that wall’. Do you believe this? He’s going to be a conservative some day.

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