Trump asks NBC host if it 'sounds good' to report the border crossings are at record lows during interview

President Donald Trump posed a question to NBC host Kristen Welker during a lengthy interview on Sunday and petitioned the Meet the Press moderator if it sounded good to summary that the frontier is the largest part secure it's ever been after being abused during the Biden administration Welker noted that edge crossings were at record lows and solicited the president if he felt the boundary was secure Trump noted it's really secure before asking Welker the question When you say that doesn't it just sound good After being abused for years by an incompetent president that allowed people to pour through an open demarcation criminals from all over the world murderers insane people from mental institutions and insane asylums isn't it a beautiful thing when you say it's the majority of secure it's ever been in the history of our country Isn't that a nice comment Trump solicited during the interview TRUMP REPORTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ENCOUNTERS AT HISTORIC LOWS DURING FIRST FULL MONTH IN OFFICEWelker then pivoted to another question about Trump's urgency declaration over the frontier problem and when he planned to lift the order The perimeter now is not the urgency he reported Welker when she solicited whether he would lift that determination The boundary is it s all part of the same thing though The big crisis right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out and we have several judges that want everybody to go to court Trump explained he had no plans to lift the crisis order The president also shot down rumors that he's planning to seek a third term during the interview It s something that to the best of my knowledge you re not allowed to do I don t know if that s constitutional he announced But this is not something I m looking to do CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREThe White House celebrated the president's first days in office by highlighting its efforts to combat illegal immigration on Monday Confines czar Tom Homan joined White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at an early morning briefing Monday where the pair touted massive decreases in territory line crossings as well as new executive orders aimed at deportations and further dividing line enforcement The Trump administration reported in early April that it had already deported illegal immigrants though officers did not offer a new total at Monday's briefing Fox News' Anders Hagstrom contributed to this review