President-elect Donald Trump posted a stately photo of himself and a top adviser on Thursday, vowing he’ll be “back in 18 days,” amid a deadly terror attack and another possible terror act carried out on New Year’s Day.
Trump, 78, shared the picture of himself standing beside his adviser Dan Scavino, his former White House deputy chief of staff for communications, as he’s been itching to return to the Oval Office to carry out his Day One policies.
The president-elect has already booked a major Washington, DC, rally on Jan. 19, the day before his inauguration, to whip up support for his second administration’s agenda to secure the border, crack down on crime and give no quarter to terrorists.
Trump made several statements vowing to crack down on crime, which he attributed to the massive influx of illegal migrant crossings into the US, after a driver ran over New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans and a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside one of the incoming president’s hotels in Las Vegas.
Neither incident has yet to be tied to an illegal migrant, though the former has been characterized by the FBI as an act of terror and the latter is being investigated by the bureau as such.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US Army veteran from Texas, drove his vehicle through crowds of bystanders on Bourbon Street in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least 14 people.
Jabbar posted videos before the attack saying he was inspired by ISIS. A banner for the terror group was also recovered from his truck, according to the FBI.
A Cybertruck driver also pulled up outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on Wednesday morning before the vehicle burst into flames, killing the driver and injuring others nearby.
The driver has been identified as Matthew Livelsberger, an Army remote and autonomous systems manager.
Investigators have no proof that the attacks were linked, but both vehicles were rented using the app Turo.
“The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the New Orleans attack.
“The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!”
He also argued Thursday that the Biden administration’s open-border policy led to a rise of “Radical Islamic Terrorism.”
“With the Biden ‘Open Border’s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” the soon-to-be 47th president said.
“That time has come, only worse than ever imagined. Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER. What he and his group of Election Interfering ‘thugs’ have done to our Country will not soon be forgotten! MAGA.”
