Disjointed press conference | Trump touts his achievements one year after his return

(Washington) Donald Trump held a disjointed press conference where he attacked illegal immigrants, while lamenting that his economic message “does not reach” Americans.

In an unusually low voice, the American president began his speech from the podium of the crowded White House press room, showing photos of “unbalanced assassins” arrested according to him by the immigration police (ICE) and deported from the United States, particularly in Minnesota, the scene of demonstrations against the government’s immigration policy.

Minneapolis, the largest city in this state, has been under tension since an American woman was killed on January 7 by an ICE agent during an operation.

Mr. Trump, who repeated his diatribe against Somali immigrants, alternately spoke about his economic program, claimed to have cleaned up the federal government, and vilified his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden.

“We inherited a construction site. The figures we inherited were rising sharply, and now we have brought them, almost all of them, much lower,” he said, citing inflation in particular.

“We brought them down considerably. I mean, I don’t understand… Maybe my public relations people aren’t very good, but we can’t get the message across,” he conceded, while White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt remained unmoved.

Speaking of the Venezuelan opponent and Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, whom he has excluded for the moment from his strategy in this country, he praised “an incredibly kind woman”.

“We’re talking with her, and maybe we can get her involved in some way.” I would love to be able to do that,” he added.

Donald Trump was speaking shortly before his departure Tuesday evening for Davos, Switzerland, where he is to participate in the Economic Forum, which risks being dominated by his threats to acquire Greenland.