Donald Trump marks 100 days in office on Tuesday in his second term as President. Much of the media fixated on a poll that proclaims the second Trump administration to have the lowest approval rating of any President in his first 100 days in the Oval Office since Harry Truman; the Trump administration, however, chose to accentuate one of the overlooked strengths of his second term. It was pretty hard to miss it, too- lawn signs decorated the North Lawn of the White House grounds, each one displaying the face and crimes of an illegal migrant captured by ICE. Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese and WOR White House correspondent Jon Decker both noticed the hard-to-miss display; they appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to discuss how the White House trumpeted the success of border security.
Reese told host Larry Mendte what Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt would point out at the 8:30 briefing: “She’s bringing Tom Homan, the White House ‘border czar,’ to the briefing. Lining the White House drive where the press walks up, there are photos of the illegal immigrants they’ve arrested in the first 100 days and the crimes that they have been wanted for, from murder to having fentanyl on them to sexual abuse of a child, etc., lining the drive. It really sends a message to the press who are crying about President Trump’s mass deportation effort.”
Decker attended the briefing; he said the border was the primary focus, but Leavitt did address other issues, including Trump meeting other world leaders over the weekend at the funeral of Pope Francis: “The President [is] expressing some real frustration, continued frustration, with [Russian] President Vladimir Putin because there’s no movement on his side, in terms of getting to the point of moving toward peace and ending the war in Ukraine.”
Photo Credit: Jon Decker