After receiving Fox Information’ “Patriot of the 12 months Award” Thursday night time, President-elect Donald Trump spoke about latest conversations with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, promised a overview 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.
Concerning 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 throughout the FOX Nation’s Patriot Awards on the Tilles Middle on December 05, 2024, in Greenvale, New York. (Picture by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photos)
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Trump once more advised Mexican 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 lady — 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 numerous tariffs on since you’re permitting criminals to pour into our nation and we will not permit that anymore.’ And it stopped. It stopped. It was so quick,” Trump mentioned.
Railing in opposition to 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 huge to rig.”
“We gained the favored vote by hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of votes. We gained all seven swing states, and we gained essentially the most votes ever gotten, by hundreds of 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 nice night time” and a “very unfair scenario.” He added, “We’ll 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 tackle, Trump repeated his marketing campaign guarantees of increasing U.S. oil manufacturing and decreasing vitality costs. He additionally once more promised to battle crimes and deport undocumented immigrants.
“It may be extra profitable than ever earlier than. We’ll be extra revered all through the world than ever earlier than. Nations are going to respect us once more,” he mentioned.
