Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha celebrated President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office Tuesday by pointing out his success at the border.
After consecutive months of border crossing arrests totaling over 100,000 every month under former President Joe Biden, March saw only 8,000 arrests. While on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria, host Maria Bartiromo said Trump told her April saw only 3 arrests, and Concha joked there were more people in the studio at the time.
Concha also cited his own conversations with Trump in writing his book The Greatest Comeback Ever: Inside Trump’s Big Beautiful Campaign.
“I interviewed the president for the book. He talked about how just the right messaging alone will make it known to everybody in Mexico, Central America, all these other countries: do not come here. It’s not going to be pleasant,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria Bartiromo Tuesday. “It’s amazing it’s down 99% despite no more wall being built right? Nothing in terms of legislation being passed, just a new president and new message and a guy like Tom Homan who is as serious as a prison fight.”
The difference between Biden and Trump was more stark than their immigration policies. On Fox News’s Hannity Monday, Concha pointed out the “insulting” media coverage of Biden’s mental acuity, while Americans could plainly tell something was wrong.
“You didn’t need a White House source or a source close to the president; all you needed were eyes, years, sanity, and sobriety to simply observe Joe Biden. Never speaking outside of a teleprompter, he became a human Chernobyl,” Concha said.
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER AWARDS BIDEN COVERAGE
These comments come on the heels of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where Axios reporter Alex Thompson won the Aldo Beckman Award for his coverage of former President Joe Biden‘s mental decline during his time in office, which was the topic of his book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Thompson originally had a contract with Simon and Schuster to release the book last year, but the publisher withdrew. Following Thompson’s public plea to find a new publisher and release the book in 2025, Penguin Press took on the project.
The Award for Excellence in Presidential Coverage Under Deadline Pressure went to Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller of the Associated Press for their coverage of Biden’s “garbage” comment. The comment came after Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden. There, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke at the expense of the country of Puerto Rico that crowds poorly received, referring to it as a “floating island of garbage.” The president appeared in a virtual rally on Vice President Kamala Harris’s behalf to respond, “The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump’s] supporters.” Madhani and Miller reported on the White House’s attempt to scrub the comment from its transcripts.