President-elect Donald Trump slammed America’s direction as a “disaster,” blaming the open borders and poor leadership.
“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective and virtually nonexistent leadership,” he wrote in a Truth Social post in the early hours Thursday.
“The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself,” he said.
The post comes after the first day of the new year saw terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
A Texas Army veteran, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, drove into a crowd on Louisiana’s Bourbon Street on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people. He died in a shootout with police shortly after. The FBI said an ISIS flag was found on the back of the truck.
Later that day, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, killing the man inside and injuring seven bystanders. Law enforcement officials identified the man as Matthew Livelsberger, a Coloradan who served at the same Army base as Jabbar.
Jabbar and Livelsberger rented the vehicles they used in the attacks through Turo, an app that lets people rent cars directly from another driver.
In his post, Mr. Trump said Democrats “should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our Country. The CIA must get involved, NOW, before it is too late.”
“The USA is breaking down — A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation,” he wrote. “Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it. See you on January 20th.”
Mr. Trump made borders a main issue of his campaign, and illegal immigration is expected to be a focal point in his second administration. He has said he will plug the southern border on Day 1 and start mass deportation.
In a Truth Social post later Thursday, the president-elect said he had warned that with the open borders, “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. That time has come, only worse than ever imagined.”
He called Mr. Biden “the worst president in the history of America, a complete and total disaster” in all caps. “What he and his group of Election Interfering “thugs” have done to our Country will not soon be forgotten!”
Mr. Trump is planning a victory rally on Jan. 19, the day before the inauguration, at the Capital One Arena in Washington.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.