President Donald Trump mounted a defense of the “radical right” and bashed the left when asked by Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt about “fixing this country” in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk.
The stunning moment came roughly 20 minutes into a significantly newsworthy Friday morning appearance on the decidedly pro-Trump Fox News morning show. The conversation mostly focused on the political assassination of Kirk, the conservative firebrand shot dead in Utah on Wednesday.
“What do we do about our country?” Earhardt pressed, after Trump complained about the state of the nation he leads. “We have radicals on the right and left, people are watching videos and cheering, some people are cheering that Charlie was killed. How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?”
“I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” Trump replied. “Radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime.”
He continued with a jeremiad of political attacks on the left.
“We don’t want people coming in, we don’t want you burning our shopping centers, shooting our people in the street,” he said. “Radicals on the left are the problem and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone,
“I solved inflation,” he boasted, which isn’t entirely accurate as the consumer price index is flat from a year ago. “Worst thing is when we let 25 million people in, many of which and I say 80% should not be in our country, they empty their prisons into our country, they empty mental institution and insane asylum. That is a mental institution on steroids. They empty out insane asylums into our country by the millions, it is the hardest thing.”
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Editor’s note: This story was updated to better reflect President Trump’s comments.