The US president made the suggestion to Spain's foreign affairs minister Josep Borrell, according to Spanish media reports.
The conversation between the two politicians is believed to have taken place when Mr Borrell visited the States with the king and queen of Spain in June.
Mr Trump is said to have cited his own project to construct a divide with Mexico, which is yet to get off the ground itself, to stop illegal migrants from crossing the border into the US.
The wall was one of Mr Trump's dominant campaign promises, but few believe building it along 2,000 miles of the US border is realistic or feasible.
"The border with the Sahara cannot be bigger than ours with Mexico," the president reportedly told Mr Borrell.
However, if Spain was to build a wall as suggested by Mr Trump, it would be complicated by the fact that it would have to be built on foreign territory.
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Spain has two enclaves - Melilla and Ceuta - on the north African coast.
Both are separated from the Spanish mainland by the Strait of Gibraltar and share a border with northern Morocco.
They are situated a considerable distance north of the Morocco/Algeria border - across which the Sahara lies.
The world's biggest desert stretches 3,000 miles across several international borders in North Africa - including the Morocco/Algeria border.
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