Former President Donald Trump lamented the worsening crisis on the southern border during a brief speech at a wedding party at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, over the weekend.
“What’s happening to the kids—they’re living in squalor. They are living like nobody has ever seen anybody,” he added. “It’s going to be—look, it’s a disaster. It’s a humanitarian disaster from their standpoint and it’s going to destroy the country. And frankly, the country can’t afford it because you’re talking about massive, just incredibly massive amounts—and that’s our school systems, our hospital systems, everything.”
President Joe Biden revoked or put on hold more than a dozen Trump-era immigration directives and policies. Some experts say the revocations are to blame for the flood of unaccompanied minors and family units crossing the border illegally.
“They have the airplane photos—they call them shots—and these things are showing thousands of people coming over from South America,” Trump said.
“So it’s a rough thing and I just say, ‘Do you miss me yet?’” Trump said to cheers from the crowd.
The former president also touched on the Biden administration’s handling of the relationships with China and Iran.
“China ... they never treated us that way right? You saw what happened a few days ago? It was terrible,” the former president said in an apparent reference to a rebuke a top Chinese official delivered on U.S. soil earlier this month to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The Trump administration had imposed massive tariffs on China and crippling sanctions on Iran.
“They’re telling me about China. They’re telling me about Iran. How are we doing with Iran? How do you like that? Boy, they were ready to make a deal. They would have done anything. They would have done anything and this guy goes and he drops the sanctions,” Trump said in reference to Biden withdrawing sanctions on Iran in February.
Trump also spoke about the election, raising doubts about Biden’s come-from-behind victory.
“We did get 75 million votes. Nobody’s ever gotten that,” the former president said. “They said, ‘Get 66 million votes, sir, and the election is over.’ Well, I got 75 million and you saw what happened.”
