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

After receiving Fox Information’ “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 evaluate 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 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 only the start.”

Trump once more prompt 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 lots 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 known as an “invasion” of the U.S., Trump praised his choose 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 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 “have a look at elections,” as he argued for one-day voting, voter IDs and proof of citizenship.

All through his brief 10-minute deal with, Trump repeated his marketing campaign guarantees of increasing U.S. oil manufacturing and decreasing power 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.