White House Press Release - In Primetime Interview, President Trump Highlights America's Comeback

In a commanding primetime interview on ABC, President Donald J. Trump delivered a powerful recap of his first 100 days in office — showcasing his transformative achievements and confronting the mainstream media's distortions head-on.

Here's what you missed: 

• President Trump highlighted the single biggest accomplishment of his first 100 days: "The border is the most significant because our country was really going bad … You had murderers coming in, you had everybody coming in … Now, it's totally closed down … Nobody thought that could happen, and it happened quickly."

• President Trump roasted the media for covering up Biden's decline: "We had a President that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across the stage without falling. We had a President that was grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it, and everybody knew it, but you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news — and, by the way, ABC is one of the worst."

• President Trump distilled his first 100 days to a single statement: "I'm doing one thing: I'm Making America Great Again … Our country suffered greatly — and now, our country is coming back like nobody can believe."

• President Trump noted prices are already moderating in his first 100 days: "Our country had inflation that was worse than they've ever had it before ... Why don't you mention that? ... Now, grocery prices are coming down, the energy prices are coming down..."

• President Trump fact checked the interviewer on deported criminal illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "This is an MS-13 gang member ... Beat the hell out of his wife ... This is not an 'innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland … He came into our country ILLEGALLY!"

• President Trump outlined the stakes of his trade policy: "This is what I campaigned on. I said that we've been abused by other countries at levels that nobody's ever seen before ... I could've left it that way — and at some point, there would've been an implosion ... but I said, 'No. We have to fix it.'"

• President Trump discussed his success in securing the homeland: "We're doing something that has to be done … They've allowed 21 million people to pour into our country. Many of these people are criminals … We're getting them out, and I was elected to get them out."

• President Trump described meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the Vatican: "The moment was a moment of solace in a sense because tremendous numbers of people are dying ... and I feel very badly about it. That's a war that would've never happened if I were president."

• President Trump praised DOGE: "We saved $150 billion — BILLION. That's a lot of money ... There are things that I'm considering right now putting back, but overall, we saved hundreds of billions of dollars ... We also found tremendous waste, fraud, and abuse."

• President Trump addressed the measles vaccine: "I recommend it. Do I mandate it? No."