Tristan Bergen’s flag during the Inauguration in Washington D.C. Photo Credit: Daniel Braz
WASHINGTON — Tristan Bergen, a 28-year-old gas station worker from Washington State, came to the nation’s capital Monday to celebrate her new president and is eager to see President Trump improve the economy, deport millions of undocumented immigrants and buy Greenland.
“I’m looking forward to the economy, hopefully getting that a little bit better, and it may sound a little bit rude but getting those 20 million people deported,” said Bergen.
“I don’t even care if they gotta do 16,000 [undocumented immigrants] a day for it to logistically work,” he said.
“Back when I was in high school, I said why don’t we have Greenland, why don’t we have the Gulf of Mexico be ours, why is Panama not even ours and now Trump wants that, it’s like, hey, he’s saying the same s— I was saying in high school!”
To improve the U.S. economy, Trump has talked about lowering prices after years of inflation, but his plans for tariffs on imports from foreign countries could have the opposite effect, say economists.
In his inauguration speech Monday, Trump said he would begin by declaring “a national emergency at our southern border” and immediately halting all illegal entry. “And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.”
On Greenland, Trump said in his speech that he would lead a government that “expands our territory,” a reference to his goals of acquiring Greenland from Denmark and restoring U.S. control of the Panama Canal. The president claims the U.S. needs Greenland “for national security purposes.”
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