When celebrity real estate magnate turned presidential hopeful Donald Trump said he would get Mexico to pay for a border wall, he came off to many as unrealistic and far from diplomatic. However, as he explained his thinking to Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly recently, the GOP candidate seems to feel that his plan is a viable one.

"I'm gonna say, 'Mexico, this is not going to continue, you're going to pay for that wall,' and they will pay for the wall,” Trump said, as reported by CNN, mocking the amount of money that would go into the project by saying, “it's peanuts, what we're talking about."

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration has taken the time to respond to Trump by saying that there is no truth to any notion that Mexico would pay for a border wall.

Talking to Bloomberg via telephone Eduardo Sanchez, a spokesman for Peña Nieto said, "Of course it's false," adding that the statement, “reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it."

Sanchez was clear that the Mexican government has not taken Trump's campaign statements seriously.

On "The Sean Hannity Show," Trump repeated that Mexico would, under his administration, be paying for the border wall, saying, “They’ll probably just give us the money.” Getting specific about how the U.S. might get the money for a border, Trump said, “if they don’t pay, we’ll charge ‘em a little tariff. It’ll be paid. But we need the wall.”

Speaking about how hard Mexicans in the U.S. work at their jobs, Sanchez said Trump’s words “reflect an enormous lack of knowledge of the reality in the U.S."

Talking about who might pay for the border wall on “Hannity,” conservative columnist Ann Coulter saw the situation as a kind of quid pro quo. "We send Mexico $14 billion in aid every year," Coulter said, "Of course they'll pay for the wall."