Jerry Brown Compares Trump’s Border Wall To Berlin Wall: “Are They Trying To Keep Me In?”

“I think Americans ought to be very careful when we make radical changes like a 30-foot wall keeping some in and some out,” California governor says 

Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown is comparing President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall to the Berlin Wall. 

“The wall to me is ominous,” Brown told NBC News’ “Meet The Press” in an interview that aired Sunday. 

“It reminds me too much of the Berlin wall,” he added. “When I see that 30-foot wall I worry somehow are they trying to keep me in or keep them out? I really think people ought to be careful because there’s a lot of odor here of kind of a strong man, a kind of a world where you want the ultimate leader here to be doing all of this stuff, and having a wall, locking the people in is one of those characteristics. I think Americans ought to be very careful when we make radical changes like a 30-foot wall keeping some in and some out.”

Brown said although California will fight construction of the wall, his administration will not bring “stupid lawsuits or be running to the courthouse every day.” 

“We’re going to be careful. We’ll be strategic,” he said, adding that opposing the wall is “the Christian thing from my point of view.” 

“You don’t treat human beings like that,” Brown said. “That is not what — Trump’s supposed to be Mr. Religious Fellow, and I thought we had to treat the least of these as we would treat the Lord. So I hope he would reconnect with some of his conservative evangelicals and they’ll tell him that these are human beings and they’re children of God, they should be treated that way.”

Watch the interview with Brown at the 35:00 mark in the video below.