Trump marks 100 days by spreading migrants and attacking opponents

President Trump marked the first 100 days of his second term on Tuesday at a rally in Michigan in which he celebrated his repression of the border and boasted of the remuneration he made against his perceived enemies and the inability of his opponents to thwart his program.

The president spoke to around 3,000 of his supporters in Macomb Community College, in an area near Detroit considered as the key to his electoral victory in the state and emblematic of the passage of the Democrat’s union workers to the Republican Party.

Trump was in campaign mode, swiveling his sentences with false statements – like the lie that the 2020 elections had been stolen – exaggerations, jokes and insults. He made fun of the way his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., looked in a swimsuit and encouraged the crowd to applaud to indicate which nickname disguising for him, they preferred: “Sleepy Joe” or “Crooked Joe”.

“I miss the campaign,” Trump said at some point.

The speech had been presented as a means for the president to take a momentum for his economic policies, which led him politically. The area in which Mr. Trump spoke held signs that said “buy American. American hire ”.

His extensive prices harmed the scholarship and contributed to a fall into his approval rating. The majority of Americans approved Mr. Trump’s performance in January and February, but he is now having trouble with what polls show is greater public disapproval.

The people in the crowd applauded Mr. Trump’s agenda, and the participants said they were supporting their efforts to use prices to try to bring manufacturing jobs in areas like Detroit, the House of the American automotive industry. The city has lost a third of its population since 2000.

Brian Pannebecker, a retired car worker who supports Mr. Trump’s prices, spoke during the rally, declaring that “the county of Macomb is the House of Democrats Reagan”. Approximately 56% of County votes In 2024, he opted for Mr. Trump.

Outside the place, however, demonstrators gathered with signs saying: “I dissipate”. Two demonstrators who participated in the rally were removed by security, and the president laughed after calling one by bad sex.

A large part of the speech focused on the repression of Mr. Trump’s borders, which led to a sharp drop in level passages but also concerns about a lack of regular procedure for those who have been arrested. Trump reheeded from a cinematographic video using images of drones who represented men with military -style equipment taking the migrants expelled into a Salvador prison while their heads were shaved.

Since coming to power, the Trump administration has made an in -depth effort of public relations to promote its expulsion policy. President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador helped for effort. The two administrations have published sensational videos of deportations on social networks.

Trump exaggerated the extent of his repression during his speech, falsely affirming at one point that only three people had slipped by his border agents.

Trump also presented himself as a man of action, highlighting the rapid rhythm of his decrees. He has Signed more than 130 decrees this yearAlmost as much as Mr. Biden throughout his mandate.

He seemed particularly proud of the way in which he had exerted an extraordinary executive power to reduce the federal workforce of what he called “bureaucrats of the incompetent and useless deep state”.

Fifty percent of voters in a Recent New York Times / Siena College survey said the upheavals Mr. Trump had brought to the country’s political and economic systems was a “bad thing for the country”. Only 36% said the changes were good. And the voters said that he had “gone too far” on the issue after the question: prices, the application of immigration, cuts on federal workforce.

During the rally, Trump showed little concern about his drop in survey numbers, rejecting them as faked.

The National Democratic Committee published a statement responding to Mr. Trump’s rally. “While Donald Trump lives in his delusions, the families of Michigan – as well as millions of families of workers across this country – are forced to live with the consequences of his dangerous, chaotic and destructive agenda of the economy,” said Ken Martin, president of the DNC.

Before the rally, Trump attended a bipartite event at the base of the nearby selfridge air guard. There, he held a more serious tone and announced a infusion of new resources, including 21 new fighter planes, considered key to keeping the base open.

“This will keep selfridge at the forefront of northern America air power,” said Trump.

During the event, Trump credited Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, a democrat who criticized for His recent visit to the White HouseWith pushing to save the base. Ms. Whitmer appeared on stage with the president.

“I’m really happy that we are here,” said Whitmer after the president’s announcement.