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Trump’s Opioid Speech Goes Off the Rails When He Starts Talking About … Melania’s Dress
Donald Trump touted his administration’s border security efforts, including a southern border wall, as a great deterrent to drug smuggling at a drug abuse summit in Atlanta today.
“In the past two years Customs and Border Protection seized, of meth and cocaine and heroin and fentanyl at the southern border are up 45%. They’re going up much higher. We are seizing it all over. You probably saw the numbers today. We are detaining, capturing, call it anything you want, more people than ever before,” Trump said.
“A lot of it is drugs and drugs are being gotten by us,” he added. “We are stopping the drug flow as much as we can. Soon we’re going to have a wall that’s very powerful … it will have a tremendous impact on drugs coming into our country.”
Trump called the US’s immigration laws “horrible, obsolete, weak, pathetic” and blamed the Democrats for not changing them.
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“We could solve the entire problem I’d say 45 minutes, but it could do a lot quicker than that … If the Democrats would agree to do basic, common-sense things” Trump said.
But the speech often went off the rails, with Trump at one point talking about the dress wife Melania wore on the day he announced his candidacy for president.
Trump's opioid abuse prevention speech has gone completely off the rails. Now he's musing about the dress Melania wore the day he launched his campaign and chastising Democrats for not changing immigration laws. pic.twitter.com/XgcDhV4Blb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
Then there was this…whatever this is:
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
And this:
wut 😳 pic.twitter.com/s6co2EWL4c
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
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