Former President Trump spoke at a rally in Nevada on Sunday, slamming President Biden’s recent executive orders on the US southern border as “ridiculous.”
Speaking to supporters in Las Vegas, Trump claimed Biden’s border executive orders “support invasion,” encourage human trafficking and “support drug traffickers.”
“What he signed is weak, ineffective and bullshit,” Trump said, with the crowd chanting “bullshit” in response.
President Biden announced an executive order on Tuesday regarding asylum seekers at the U.S. southern border. If the seven-day average of border crossings at ports of entry exceeds 2,500, the executive order will mean that most asylum seekers will be turned away at the border, with some exceptions.
The president said Tuesday he had “no choice” but to use executive orders to address the border crossing problem on the U.S. southern border after Republicans again opposed efforts to revive a bipartisan border bill.
“Republicans in Congress, not all of them, ran from this issue. Why? Because Donald Trump told them to,” Biden said. “He told Republicans he wasn’t going to solve this issue and that he wanted to use it to attack me. That’s what he wanted to do. It was a cynical, deeply cynical political move. It’s a complete disservice to the American people who look to us to solve the border, not weaponize it.”
But Trump said what Biden has achieved has come “too late,” is “pointless” and is a “PR ploy.”
“If Joe Biden really wants to sign an executive order to stop the invasion, all he needs to do now is say, ‘I am immediately reinstating all of the border policies of a gentleman named Donald J. Trump,'” Trump said.
An average of Nevada polls compiled by The Hill/Decision Desk headquarters showed Trump leading Biden in head-to-head polls with 49 percent approval, to Biden’s 46 percent. Add to the matchup Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent candidate who narrowly missed out, and the average changes to 43 percent approval for Trump, 38 percent for Biden and 9 percent for Kennedy.
