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Donald Trump: “When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe. The last Administration created the worst inflation in 48 years…”

On the recordAugust 1, 2026
When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe. The last Administration created the worst inflation in 48 years, the most dangerous and insecure border in history, and exploding trade deficits like we have never seen before — rampant crime, men in women’s sports, transgender mutilization of your children, and chaos and bedlam all over the world… In less than 18 months, we’ve turned around four years of disaster and we now have the strongest border in American history… The murder rate saw the single largest drop ever recorded, to the lowest in 125 years.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Opening remarks at Cabinet meeting

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