Trump slams Biden over border executive order: 'He knows we have a debate coming up'

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused President Joe Biden of issuing an executive order designed to restrict illegal entry into the U.S. to provide a talking point on the issue at their upcoming debate.

The White House announced the executive action on Tuesday, blaming Republicans for their alleged inaction on the border. Trump, for his part, blamed Biden for the situation.

“Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country by far, has totally surrendered our southern border,” Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social. “His weakness and extremism have resulted in a border invasion like we have never seen before. Other countries have emptied out their prisons, insane asylums, and mental institutions and sent us drug dealers, human traffickers, and terrorists.”

“Millions of people have poured into our country and now, after nearly four years of his failed, weak leadership, pathetic leadership, crooked Joe Biden is pretending to finally do something about the border,” he went on. “But in fact, it’s all about show because he knows we have a debate coming up in three weeks.”

“The truth is that Joe Biden’s executive order won’t stop the invasion. It’s weak and it’s pathetic. It will actually make the invasion worse,” Trump went on. “Millions of people a year will continue to pour across our border and be released into our country. And we recently learned Biden is secretly granting mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands of these illegal aliens along with welfare, government benefits, work permits, and jobs.”

"He’s not doing that, however, for our veterans. He’s not doing that for our homeless," he said. "He’s giving illegal aliens far more than our veterans get. Far more than our homeless get. Many of the left are even pushing for illegal aliens to vote in our elections, which is what this is all about. That’s why they’re allowing up to 20 million people since he took office."

“When I was president, we built over 500 miles of border wall, stopped the flood of criminals, and we had the safest border in the history of our country," Trump went on. “We need to secure our border once again. We need to secure our border once and for all. Crooked Joe will never get the job done,” he continued. “He doesn’t want to get the job done… He could have done it very easily. All he had to do was say ‘close the border.’ That’s the power of the presidency.”

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter.