"So I heard [Florida Governor Ron] DeSantis saying: 'Oh, I get eight years, I get eight years.' He gets what. You don't need four, and you don't need eight. You need six months. Within six months, I said, things can be done," Trump told an Iowa town hall when asked how much time he would need to deal with the border crisis, and get prices, inflation and crime rates in the country down.
"We gonna drill. We gonna get our energy down. When the energy comes down, other things come down. And we're gonna take care of things. We gonna immediately close up the border."
The former president added that the US currently has "the worst border in the history of the world."
Trump, who announced his presidential bid in November 2022, also said we would have not voted for DeSantis because "he said you need eight years."
US media reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter, that former US Vice President Mike Pence was expected to announce his 2024 presidential campaign as early as June 7.