At Fox Nation awards ceremony, Trump boasts about current conversations with international leaders, guarantees to ‘have a look at’ election system

After receiving Fox Nation’s “Patriot of the 12 months Award” Thursday night time, President-elect Donald Trump spoke about current 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 profitable the Nov. 5 election.

Relating to his assembly with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau final week, Trump boasted, “And as you already know, I spoke with Canada and Justin got here flying proper in as a result of we talked about 25% tariffs — that is just the start.”

Trump once more steered 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 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 a variety of tariffs on since you’re permitting criminals to pour into our nation and we won’t permit that anymore.’ And it stopped. It stopped. It was so quick,” Trump mentioned.

Railing towards what he referred to 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 assist was “too massive to rig.”

“We received the favored vote by tens of millions and tens of millions of votes. We received all seven swing states, and we received probably the most votes ever gotten, by tens of millions, by a Republican candidate,” Trump mentioned.

Recalling the 2020 election, when President Joe Biden defeated Trump by greater than 7 million votes, Trump referred to as it “not a nice night time” and a “very unfair state of affairs.” He added, “We’ll get issues straightened out on this nation, together with elections.”

He then promised to “have a look at elections,” as he argued for one-day voting, voter IDs and proof of citizenship.

All through his quick 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 combat crimes and deport undocumented immigrants.

“It’ll 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.