White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt came out swinging in her opening statement in the first Trump Admin 2.0 press briefing on Tuesday.
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Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in US history, came out swinging and highlighted Trump’s accomplishments after only one week in office.
Karoline Leavitt: Good afternoon, everybody. How are we? Good to see all of you. It’s an honor to be here with all of you. A lot of familiar faces in the room, a lot of new faces, and President Trump is back and the golden age of America has most definitely begun. The Senate has already confirmed five of President Trump’s exceptional cabinet nominees. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
It is imperative that the Senate continues to confirm the remainder of the president’s well qualified nominees as quickly as possible. As you have seen during the past week, President Trump is hard at work fulfilling the promises that he made to the American people on the campaign trail. Since taking the oath of office, President Trump has taken more than 300 executive actions secured nearly $1 trillion in US investments, deported illegal alien rapists, gang members, and suspected terrorists from our homeland and restored common sense to the federal government. I want to take a moment to go through some of these extraordinary actions.
On day one, President Trump declared a national emergency at our southern border to end the four-year-long invasion of illegal aliens under the previous administration. Additionally, President Trump signed an executive order to end catch and release and finished construction of his effective border wall. By using every lever of his federal power, President Trump has sent a loud and clear message to the entire world. America will no longer tolerate illegal immigration, and this President expects that every nation on this planet will cooperate with the repatriation of their citizens. As proven by this weekend, when President Trump swiftly directed his team to issue harsh and effective sanctions and tariffs on the Colombian government, Upon hearing they were denied a U.S. military aircraft full of their own citizens who were deported by this administration within hours, the Colombian government agreed to all of President Trump’s demands, proving America is once again respected on the world stage. So to foreign nationals who are thinking about trying to illegally enter the United States. Think again. Under this president, you will be detained and you will be deported every day, Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President Trump’s administration is removing from our communities.
On January 23, ICE New York arrested a Turkish national for entry without inspection who is unknown or suspected. On January 23, Ice San Francisco arrested a citizen of Mexico unlawfully present in the United States, who has been convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child aged 14 years or younger. ICE St. Paul has arrested a citizen of Honduras who was convicted of 4th degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor . ICE Buffalo arrested a citizen of Ecuador who has been convicted of rape. ICE Boston arrested a citizen of the Dominican Republic who has a criminal conviction for second degree murder. This criminal was convicted of murder for beating his pregnant wife to death in front of her five year old son. And ICE St. Paul also arrested a citizen of Mexico who was convicted of possessing pornographic material of a minor on a work computer. These are the heinous individuals that this administration is removing from American communities every single day and to the brave state and local law enforcement officers, CBP and ICE agents who are helping in the facilitation of this deportation operation. President Trump has your back, and he is grateful for your hard work. On the economic front, President Trump took immediate action to lower costs for families who are suffering from four long years of the Biden administration’s destructive and inflationary policies.
President Trump ordered the heads of all executive departments and agencies to help deliver emergency price relief to the American people, untangle our economy from Biden’s regulatory constraints, and end the reckless war on American energy. President Trump also signed sweeping executive orders to end the weaponization of government and restore common sense to the federal bureaucracy. He directed all federal agencies to terminate illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to help return America to a merit-based society . President Trump also signed an executive order declaring it is now the policy of the federal government that there are only two sexes, male and female. Sanity has been restored.”
WATCH:
.@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt’s first opening statement (1/2): “Good afternoon, everybody. How are we? Good to see all of you. It’s an honor to be here with all of you. A lot of familiar faces in the room, a lot of new faces, and President Trump is back and the golden age of… pic.twitter.com/2IMxFhYe8R
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 28, 2025
Video and partial transcription courtesy of NewsBusters
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