Three Key Takeaways:
- Nayib Bukele criticized the U.S. crime situation during a meeting with Trump, advocating for harsher imprisonment of criminals to protect citizens.
- Bukele’s leadership transformed El Salvador from the murder capital of the world to one of the safest countries, highlighting his success in crime reduction.
- Trump criticized Biden’s open-border policies, emphasizing a tougher stance on illegal immigration and potential collaboration with Bukele to combat crime and terrorism.
El Salvador’s President just gave Donald Trump a roadmap to victory over America’s crime wave.
And it’s driving the radical Left insane.
Nayib Bukele stunned the White House press corps with his brutal message about American criminals.
El Salvador’s anti-crime President delivers shocking truth in the Oval Office
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele didn’t mince words when meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.
The straight-talking foreign leader told Trump point blank that America has a serious crime and terrorism problem that requires immediate action.
“Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate,” Bukele declared during their Oval Office meeting.
The El Salvador leader delivered a message that shattered every liberal talking point about crime and punishment in America.
“You cannot just, you know, free the criminals and think crime is going to go down magically, you have to imprison them so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism, and it can be done,” Bukele told Trump.
This blunt assessment directly contradicts the pro-crime policies pushed by Democrats for years.
From murder capital to safest country
Bukele knows what he’s talking about. Under his leadership, El Salvador has undergone a remarkable transformation.
“We actually turned the murder capital of the world – that was [what] the journalists called it – the murder capital of the world to the safest country in the Western Hemisphere,” Bukele told Trump.
This astounding turnaround caught Trump’s attention, who has been working with Bukele to address America’s illegal immigration crisis.
The Trump administration has been coordinating with El Salvador on deportation flights, sending hundreds of criminals, including alleged Tren de Aragua gang members, to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who visited CECOT last month, thanked Bukele for his partnership, saying Trump has sent a “powerful message of consequences” to keep criminals, rapists, murderers, gang members, and terrorists out of the United States.
Trump criticizes Biden’s border failures
President Trump didn’t hold back in criticizing his predecessor’s disastrous border policies during the meeting.
“This was allowed by a man who – what he did to our country is just unbelievable,” Trump said of former President Joe Biden.
Trump blasted the previous administration for allowing people to “come freely into our country” from South America, Africa, Asia, and “rough parts of Europe,” claiming many of those entering were criminals.
“So we’re straightening it out. We’re getting them out. But what they did and what that party did to our country, open borders, anybody could come in. As soon as I heard that, I said, ‘every prison is going to be emptied out into our country.’ That’s what happened. And we’re straightening it out,” Trump explained.
When asked how many illegal immigrants his administration would send to El Salvador, Trump’s answer was clear: “as many as we can get out of our country that were allowed in here by incompetent Joe Biden through open borders.”
Taking on woke policies
The conversation between the two leaders wasn’t limited to immigration and crime. They also addressed controversial progressive policies that have been pushed by the Left.
“Do you allow your men in women’s sports? Do you allow men to box women?” Trump asked Bukele, referencing transgender policies that have become a flashpoint in American politics.
Bukele’s response was unequivocal: “That’s violence.”
Trump agreed, stating, “That’s abuse of a woman,” Trump agreed. “But we have people that fight to the death because they think men should be able to play in women’s sports.”
Bukele pointed out the irony that the same people who once pushed for laws to protect women from abuse are now advocating policies that harm women.
“We’re big on protecting women,” Bukele said, noting that most of his Cabinet members present in the Oval Office were women, jokingly adding, “they’re not DEI hires or anything.”
Trump highlighted the powerful women in his own administration, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, whom Trump described as “The most powerful woman in the world, according to magazines. I think she probably is.”
Looking toward aggressive solutions
The meeting demonstrated that Trump is considering bold measures to address America’s crime and immigration problems.
Trump didn’t rule out the possibility of sending U.S. citizens or fully naturalized immigrants who commit violent crimes to El Salvador, though he noted that Attorney General Bondi and the Justice Department were still “studying the law” on that potential course of action.
“They’re as bad as anybody that comes in. We have bad ones, too. And I’m all for it because we can do things with the president for less money and have great security,” Trump said. “I’m talking about really bad people.”
This meeting shows that President Trump is taking a dramatically different approach to crime, immigration, and national security than his predecessor – and finding like-minded partners on the world stage.
