During a speech to supporters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump praised North Korea ’s frontier as “one of the strongest borders anywhere in the world,” describing a barrier of “seven walls of wire” electrified with “a million volts,” while claiming the United States has now achieved its “tightest border we’ve ever had.” He linked the remarks to his longstanding attacks on former President Joe Biden’s immigration record and his own vow to “close the fricking border right now.”

Why It Matters

Trump has made border security the defining theme of both his presidencies and political brand, repeatedly arguing that the U.S. had “the strongest and safest border in U.S. history” under his leadership and “the worst border anywhere in the world” under Biden. Those claims

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