Trump blasts Biden on border and inflation in rebuttal to expected State of the Union address

Former President Donald Trump released a rebuttal Thursday afternoon to President Biden’s expected State of the Union address, slamming Biden’s immigration and economic policies and casting the upcoming speech as a “sad excuse.”

“Joe Biden is on the run from his record and lying like crazy to try to escape accountability for the horrific devastation he and his party have created—all the while they continue the very policies that are causing this horror show to go,” Trump, 77, began in his video address published on X.

“We cannot take it any longer as a country. Joe Biden’s sad excuse for a State of the Union address aside, here are the facts.”

Biden, 81, is expected to speak extensively during his speech Thursday night about the border and the economy — two issues that are top concerns for voters leading up to the 2024 election.

The president will likely call on Congress to pass a bipartisan bill that would give him more authority and funding on immigration, which he did during his border visit last week.

In his rebuttal, Trump reiterated his argument that the migrant crisis is due to Biden erasing the border policies he implemented during his tenure, including Remain in Mexico, “Safe Third Agreements, the Asylum ban, Title 42, 571 miles of border wall, Rapid Deportations, and much more.”

“Over the past three years, Biden has actively aided and abetted the importation of millions and millions of illegal alien migrants and resettled them into your communities,” Trump claimed.

“At ANY TIME during the past three years, Crooked Joe Biden—and he is crooked as you can be and the most incompetent president we’ve ever had—could have called off the invasion—but to this day, he is keeping the hordes of illegal migrants and illegal aliens pouring into the country.

“By the time his term is up, we could have close to 20 million people in our country. We have no idea from where they come, we have no idea who they are. They have no identification. Many come from mental institutions, many come from prisons, they’re terrorists. We have a calamity the likes of which we’ve never seen before.”

“The VERY FIRST BILL Joe Biden sent to Congress was a plan to turn illegal aliens into voting citizens. That’s just what we need. No matter what Crooked Joe says, his actions prove his priority is to import a colossal new illegal alien population and let them all stay—my priority is securing our border, and sending Crooked Joe’s illegals back home,” Trump said.

The former president then said Biden using the term “shrinkflation” to describe what is happening under his tenure is “one of the most ridiculous things this country has ever seen.”

“Shrinkflation is just another way of saying INFLATION—it means that you’re losing a lot of money because these people don’t know what they’re doing. It was all caused by Crooked Joe and the people that surround him—and they are radical Left Marxists and Fascists and Communists and Socialists. We have people running our country the likes of which we have never seen before.”

“It’s time to tell Crooked Joe Biden, ‘YOU’RE FIRED,’” he concluded.

Trump said he would do a “play by play” of Biden’s SOTU speech, which is expected to start at 9 p.m.