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Trump Recaps ABC News Interview on Border and 100th Day in Office

April 30, 2025 · The White House · 0:03:00

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What happened

The White House published excerpts on April 30, 2025 from President Trump’s ABC News interview in the Oval Office marking his 100th day in office, according to the White House. The president called the border the most significant issue, saying the prior policy allowed people in from prisons, mental institutions, and gangs from all over the world, and that the border is now totally closed down, with a figure of 99.9 percent announced the previous day, as he stated it. He said 11,888 murderers had come in, some believed to have murdered more than one person, as he stated the figure.

The president said the United States is a respected country again after being laughed at around the world, and criticized his predecessor’s competence and the press, as he stated it. He said he had been persecuted more than any president in the country’s history by crooked and dishonest people, and that this had been proven, as he stated it.

On Ukraine, the president called it Biden’s war, not his war, said it would never have happened if he were president, and said he wants to see if he can solve it, as he stated it. He said 21 million people had been allowed to pour into the country, many of them criminals who are being removed, and criticized judges he described as radical left for protecting criminals, as he stated the figures.

Why it matters

The 100th-day excerpts fix the president’s own stated first-term scorecard — a 99.9 percent border figure and 21 million entries under his predecessor, as he stated them — the baseline claims his second hundred days were argued against.

Scoreboard watch

The president stated border crossings had fallen 99.9 percent, as he stated the figure at his 100th day — checkable against Customs and Border Protection encounter data for the period.

Sources: The White House, “ICYMI: On the 100th day, Trump sits down with ABC News, ‘We’re a respected country again.’ 🔥”, 2025-04-30 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-04-30). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.