President-elect Donald Trump said he will act with “historic speed and strength” to fix the country’s problems as soon as he takes office Monday.

“We have to do it. We’re not going to have a country left,” Mr. Trump said during his Victory Rally on Sunday at the Capital One Arena in Washington.

“Before even taking office, you are already seeing results that nobody expected to see,” he said, adding that the changes are being called “the Trump effect.”

“Since the election the stock market has surged and small business optimism has soared a record 41 points to a 39-year high,” he said. “Bitcoin has shattered one record high after another.”

He touted other records, and mentioned corporations that would make big investments in the United States, specifically mentioning Tim Cook of Apple.

The rally iwas packed with Trump supporters celebrating the evening before his second inauguration.

Mr. Trump said the border measures he will take as president will be the “most aggressive sweeping effort” in the world.

“We have to set our country on the proper course,” Mr. Trump. “By the time the sun sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt and all the illegal border trespassers will in some form or another be on their way back home.”

He slammed the Biden administration’s open border policy, saying they let in “rough” people after Mr. Trump, at the end of his first term, had handed over “the best, safest border in the history of our country.”

He said some of the illegal immigrants let into the country are worse than the famous fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.