Former US President Donald Trump has touted his foreign policy achievements while reinforcing his stance on immigration in a speech that seemed to target his core Republican conservative supporters.
Trump is anticipated to secure victory in the Republican primary race across 16 states, with the exception of Vermont, where his fellow Republican contender Nikki Haley unexpectedly triumphed on Super Tuesday.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden appears poised to clinch victory in the Democratic primary race across all 16 states.
Although neither candidate has officially secured their party’s nomination, both are positioned to do so in the coming weeks.
Characterizing Joe Biden as the “worst president in US history,” Trump drew parallels to Adolf Hitler by accusing immigrants entering the US illegally of “poisoning the blood of our country.”
“We have people coming in from such, such bad places and we are going to have to get them out. We have murderers that are being deposited into our country. We have drug dealers at the biggest highest levels that coming into our country,” he remarked.
Trump also expressed his preference for calling Covid the “Chinese virus.”
Speaking from Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump criticized the US forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 as a “horrible, horrible surrender.”
Reflecting on his own foreign policy achievements, Trump lauded the Abraham Accords—a series of treaties signed in 2020 normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco—and lamented the lack of recognition for his role in it.
“I got rid of ISIS 100 per cent,” Trump claimed, referring to the Islamic State terror group, while also highlighting Washington’s purportedly positive relations with China and North Korea during his presidency.
Trump reiterated his hardline stance on immigration, describing the influx of migrants across the southern border as an “invasion” and suggesting that the number of migrants could be as high as 15 million, though he provided no evidence to support this assertion.
