Trump Celebrates Person of the Year Award with ‘Days of Fury’ Declaration
Donald Trump has called his comeback election triumph “72 Days of Fury” and says he was returned to power because “the country was angry.”
In a ‘Person of the Year’ interview with Time magazine, the president-elect said his defiance after the July 13 assassination attempt, rising bloodied and raising a fist in the air, turned the tide in his favor.
“A lot of people changed with that moment,” he said.
Trump told Time that one of his first official acts after his Jan. 20, 2025 inauguration will be to pardon most of the Jan. 6 rioters.
“It’s going to start in the first hour. Maybe the first nine minutes,” he added.
He will sign further Executive Orders to resume the construction of a border wall and launch his planned mass deportation attempt to force more than 11 million undocumented immigrants out of the country.
Trump added that he will call in the military if he deems it necessary. “It doesn’t stop the military if it’s an invasion of our country,” he said, adding: “I’ll only do what the law allows, but I will go up to the maximum level of what the law allows.”
And he claims he will force other countries to take back their citizens. “I’ll get them into every country or we won’t do business with those countries,” he told Time.
He said he didn’t have any plans to restore the policy of separating children from their families at the border, but doesn’t rule it out, explaining: “I don’t believe we’ll have to, because we will send the whole family back. I would much rather deport them together.”
A key turning point in the campaign was when he was warned that his stance on abortion bans could cost him the election. According to Time, he pivoted quickly to leave the abortion issue up to the individual states to decide, lessening the risk of losing votes on the touchstone issue.
Trump says he’s determined to press ahead to get his Cabinet nominees confirmed, but abandoned his plans for controversial former Rep. Matt Gaetz to run the Justice Department, telling him: “Matt, I don’t think this is worth the fight.”
A senior Trump adviser told the magazine: “He’s not going to accept being d***ed around.”
The incoming president said he was “sad” his final election campaign was over, adding: “It will never happen again.”
