Statements by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

In an unprecedented violation of US sovereignty and national security, Joe Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to surveil sensitive American military installations. In an effort to distract and deflect from their own weakness and failures, the Biden regime has resorted to peddling disinformation.

The Biden Administration allowed the spy balloon to travel across the country, viewing sensitive military installations as it drifted along. If not for local reporting in Billings, Montana, we might have never known.[1]

Watch President Trump’s policy video on confronting Chinese aggression.

President Donald J. Trump rebuilt America’s military, increased readiness, and destroyed our nation’s enemies. Joe Biden has weakened America’s national security, emboldened our adversaries, and betrayed our allies.

Biden presided over a tragic and embarrassing military withdrawal in Afghanistan, which took the lives of 13 U.S. servicemembers. Joe Biden left 10,000 to 15,000 Americans behind in Afghanistan.[1] This was among the most embarrassing acts the United States has presided over.

Watch President Trump announce his plan to strengthen America’s national security and build a new missile defense shield.

President Donald J. Trump secured America’s southern border and will wage war on the deadly cartels once he returns to the Oval Office. Meanwhile, Joe Biden has handed over complete control of the U.S. southern border to the dangerous cartels and put American communities in danger.

The U.S. Border Patrol has reported three times as many illegal border crossings under Joe Biden than while Donald Trump was President. The Biden administration continues to break records for historic illegal border crossings, tallying an estimated 5.5 million illegal border crossings since taking office.[1]

President Donald J. Trump reduced violent crime across the country and stood strongly with America’s law enforcement. On Joe Biden’s watch, violent crime has skyrocketed in virtually every American city.

In Joe Biden’s first year in office, twelve major cities broke all-time high murder records.[1]

Since Joe Biden has taken office, American cities have become violent crime havens. More than 779 people have been murdered in the city of Los Angeles, a 44% increase from the first two years of President Trump’s term.[2] Robberies, assaults, auto thefts in Los Angeles have increased every year since Joe Biden took office.[3]

Watch President Trump discuss the importance of supporting law enforcement and preventing riots from destroying our communities.

Joe Biden’s Education Department is more focused on social justice indoctrination than teaching students. President Donald J. Trump protected the rights of parents and ensured children have every opportunity to receive the best education possible.

The Biden administration abandoned their responsibility to parents and students by allowing teachers unions to install policies that delayed school reopening post-COVID. [1]

President Donald J. Trump achieved American energy independence for the first time in nearly 70 years, lowering costs for consumers, and creating thousands of American jobs. Joe Biden has demolished America’s energy independence through radical policies, excessive regulation, and anti-fossil fuel fiction.

In 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy projected that American consumers wouldn’t see gasoline prices over five dollars a gallon until the year 2040.[1] Clearly, their report failed to factor Joe Biden and his energy-killing policies into their projections.

In reality, gasoline prices doubled in Joe Biden’s first two years in office[2], and diesel prices increased 75%.[3]

Americans are experiencing a massive budget crunch with health services, premiums, and essential medications thanks to Joe Biden’s inflation disaster and mangled supply chains.

From July 2021 to July 2022, the cost of more than 1,200 medications increased by an average of over 30 percent. Some drugs in 2022 increased by more than $20,000 or 500%.[1]

Watch President Trump’s policy proposal to protect Medicare and Social Security.

Joe Biden has overseen the worst economic decline since the Great Depression. When President Donald J. Trump returns to office, he will deliver economic opportunity and prosperity for Americans of all backgrounds, lower inflation and cut wasteful government spending. He did it before and he will do it again.

Through Biden’s energy-crippling policies, Americans suffered the highest national average price of gasoline ever recorded in American history.[1]