President Trump rattled off a long list of accomplishments on the anniversary of his first year back in office.
Tuesday, the one-year mark after his second inauguration, Mr. Trump took over the White House press briefing, slapping down a stack of papers that listed his achievements.
“I could stand here and read it for a week, and we wouldn’t be finished,” he said. “But we’ve done more than any other administration has done by far.”
First and foremost, he touted the success of his immigration crackdown. “Within one month, we had almost nobody coming in,” he said.
“Now, for the last eight months, nobody came into our country illegally. And I find that hard to believe, because you’d think somebody, because it used to be, millions of people just poured into our country,” he added.
The Trump administration has deported more than 605,000 illegal immigrants, with an additional 2 million self-deporting, according to the White House list of accomplishments.
But the list was much longer. From his One Big Beautiful Bill to the price of gas, he credited himself for a wide range of feats.
From Congress passing Mr. Trump’s rescissions package to cut “woke, weaponized and wasteful” spending to the Working Families Tax Cut delivering the “largest tax cut in American history,” the president made the economy a forefront of the press briefing.
When it comes to his tariffs, which have received mixed reactions on both sides of the political aisle, he doubled down on their benefits to Americans.
He said his accomplishments include keeping inflation under control, roughly a week after the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that core consumer prices rose less than predicted in December.
“So everyone said, ‘Oh, tariffs will cause inflation.’ We have no inflation. We have very little inflation,” the president said. “Biden had inflation, and he didn’t do tariffs. We had a huge problem.”
The Treasury Department has taken in over $235 billion in tariff duties since January of last year, his list of accomplishments says, citing government data.
He hammered his predecessor, former President Joseph R. Biden, saying that he and his fellow Democrats were the reason for high prices.
“They created the affordability problem,” he said, “And we have — we are solving it. We have solved a lot of it.”
Foreign affairs were on Mr. Trump’s podium agenda as well, with the president claiming that every U.N. leader nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dubbing himself the peace president, he said he has ended eight wars between Cambodia and Thailand; Kosovo and Serbia; Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda; Pakistan and India; Israel and Iran; Egypt and Ethiopia; Armenia and Azerbaijan; and Israel and Hamas.
He held 45 bilateral, trilateral and multilateral meetings with 46 leaders, including multiple visits from 12 world leaders, according to his list of accomplishments.
Domestically, he wrote his signature on almost 230 executive orders, from “closing the border” to “terminating radical government DEI programs.”
He also signed a slew of landmark legislation, including the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, the Laken Riley Act and the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act.
“It’s been an amazing period of time,” he said at the top of the press conference, referencing 365 days back in office.
