After receiving Fox Nation’s “Patriot of the Yr Award” Thursday night time, President-elect Donald Trump spoke about latest conversations with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, promised a evaluation of U.S. elections and repeated his marketing campaign promise to deport undocumented immigrants.
It was one of many few TV appearances Trump has made since successful the Nov. 5 election.
Relating to his assembly with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau final week, Trump boasted, “And as , I spoke with Canada and Justin got here flying proper in as a result of we talked about 25% tariffs — that is only the start.”
GREENVALE, NEW YORK – President-elect Donald Trump speaks through the FOX Nation’s Patriot Awards on the Tilles Heart on December 05, 2024, in Greenvale, New York. (Photograph by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs)
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Trump once more advised Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to close down the U.S.-Mexico border regardless of her denying the declare final week.
“I spoke the opposite day to the president, the brand new president of Mexico — very good girl — and we had a really good dialog. However she mentioned, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ I mentioned, ‘I am not. I am simply placing plenty of tariffs on since you’re permitting criminals to pour into our nation and we will not enable that anymore.’ And it stopped. It stopped. It was so quick,” Trump mentioned.
Railing towards what he known as an “invasion” of the U.S., Trump praised his decide for border czar Tom Homan, calling him “central casting.”
Trump additionally boasted about his victory whereas criticizing the U.S. election system, claiming his political opponents tried to rig the 2024 election however failed as a result of his help was “too large to rig.”
“We gained the favored vote by thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of votes. We gained all seven swing states, and we gained probably the most votes ever gotten, by thousands and thousands, by a Republican candidate,” Trump mentioned.
Recalling the 2020 election, when President Joe Biden defeated Trump by greater than 7 million votes, Trump known as it “not a pleasing night time” and a “very unfair state of affairs.” He added, “We will get issues straightened out on this nation, together with elections.”
He then promised to “take a look at elections,” as he argued for one-day voting, voter IDs and proof of citizenship.
All through his brief 10-minute handle, Trump repeated his marketing campaign guarantees of increasing U.S. oil manufacturing and decreasing power costs. He additionally once more promised to battle crimes and deport undocumented immigrants.
“It’ll be extra profitable than ever earlier than. We will be extra revered all through the world than ever earlier than. International locations are going to respect us once more,” he mentioned.
