U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed he was declaring a national emergency Friday in order to secure funding for his wall along the Mexico border.
However, during the announcement at the White House rose garden, Trump veered off topic on many other issues, such as solving America’s drug problem with the death penalty and former president Barck Obama’s apparent need to go to war with North Korea.
Here is a roundup of what Trump said.
Trump boasts about China’s death penalty
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Trump said the death penalty would stop America’s drug problem, citing China’s harsh judicial system.
During a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Trump said he was told China does not have a drug problem.
“I said you have 1.4 billion people, what do you mean you have no drug problem?” Trump recalled.
Trump said Xi told him China gives the death penalty to people who sell drugs.
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“What do we do? We set up blue-ribbon committees. Lovely men and women, they set up lunch, they eat, they dine and they waste a lot of time,” Trump said. “So if you want to get smart, we can get smart. You can end a drug problem. Can end it a lot faster than you think.”
He added that he is “most excited” about China reportedly deciding to give drug dealers the death penalty, specifically those who sell fentanyl, as part of a proposed trade deal with the U.S.
Trump says Obama wanted to go to war with North Korea
ABOVE: Trump says Obama told him he was on the verge of war with North Korea
Trump said he believes Obama would have gone to war with North Korea.
“When I came into office … I met with President Obama. And I sat in those beautiful chairs and we talked … and I said what is the biggest problem? He said ‘by far, North Korea,'” Trump commented.
“And I don’t want to speak for him, but I believe he would have gone war with North Korea, I believe he was ready for war.”
Trump says he doesn’t know what to do with ‘so much money’
Trump said he went through Congress for border security funds and made a deal to get “almost $1.4 billion when I wasn’t supposed to get $1.”
“Well, I got $1.4 billion but I’m not happy with it … I want to do it faster. I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn’t need to do this but I’d rather do it much faster,” he said,
He added that the Democrats did not fight the Republicans on what was mostly in the bill and now, “we have so much money we don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know what to do with all the money they are giving us, it’s crazy.”
Trump says you can’t traffic humans through ports of entry
Trump said a majority of drugs don’t go through ports of entry, something that his own administration said is false.
“They can’t go through ports of entry. You can’t take big loads because you have people. We have some very capable people, the border patrol, law enforcement, looking,” Trump said.
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He then said you “can’t take human trafficking, women and girls, you can’t them through ports of entry, you can’t have them tied up in the back seat of a car or a truck or a van.”
Border agents “open the door. They look. They can’t see three women with tape on their mouth or three women whose hands are tied? They go through areas where you have no wall,” Trump said.
Trump tangles with CNN’s Jim Acosta once again
ABOVE: Trump spats with CNN’s Jim Acosta over border wall
Trump once again sparred with CNN reporter Jim Acosta after he questioned whether the president was “concocting” a national emergency in order to get funding for his wall.
“There is a lot of Department of Homeland Security data that shows border crossings at a near-record low and shows undocumented immigrants committing crime at lower levels than native-born Americans,” Acosta said.
“You don’t really believe that. Do you really believe that?” Trump asked.
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“I believe in facts and statistics,” Acosta said.
“Your question is a very political one because you have an agenda,” Trump replied. “You’re CNN. You’re fake news. You have an agenda. The numbers you gave are wrong.”