‘Are you stupid?’: Trump SLAMS reporter for questioning why he blames Biden for letting in Afghan charged with shooting 2 National Guardsmen

"Why do you blame the Biden administration?" the reporter asked.

"Because they let him in," he replied. "Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people, that shouldn’t be here, and you’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person, and we—there’s a law passed that it’s almost impossible to get them out. You can’t get them out once they come in. And they came in and they were unvetted. They were unchecked.”

"There were many of them, and they came in on big planes, and it was disgraceful. And if you look, you'll see there was a law passed. It makes it almost impossible not to let them in, not to certify them, so to speak, once they come in, and they shouldn't have come in.”

He continued, calling "the whole thing a mess," adding that the "whole Afghanistan situation was a mess."

"It should have never taken place. If we're going to go out, and we would have gone out, because I had everybody ready to go, we were going to go out with strength and dignity and precision, and we would have left for Bagram. And we would have kept Bagram, by the way, because of its very close relationship to China and where they make their missiles. But when you let the people come in by the thousands and thousands and thousands, they made a terrible mistake, but they were incompetent. Yeah."

The suspect arrested for the shooting of two National Guard members, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who came to the US in September 2021 under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, launched amid the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Trump announced on Thursday, "I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization."

Parole, asylum, and other programs were frequently offered under the Biden administration. In late 2024, it was revealed that nearly one million “asylum seekers” had applied for entry into the United States in fiscal year 2023. Earlier the same year, it was revealed that the administration closed over 350,000 asylum cases for migrants without criminal records or for those not deemed to be national security threats. Case closures mean these migrants' asylum claims are "terminated without a decision on the merits," and effectively removes them from the legal system by neither granting nor denying their claims.

Earlier in the Biden administration, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland ruled that immigration judges could take into consideration the mental health of asylum seekers convicted on "particularly serious crimes." The administration also brought hundreds of thousands of people into the US under the CHNV refugee program, giving out over a billion dollars in benefits.