President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One en route to the U.S. following his official visit with President Xi Jinping in China, May 15, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci
On Friday, President Donald Trump raised eyebrows with his misspelled invective against Fox News anchor Shannon Bream, who had the temerity to point out that former President Barack Obama’s ICE arrest numbers were “comparable” to those of the current chief executive.
Trump took to Truth Social to rant against Bream’s statement, posting, “It was just announced that, and I’m not necessarily thrilled to be talking about it because it does not exactly sound NICE, the Trump Administration has the Highest Average Daily Arrest Rate by ICE and CBP, including Total Detention, with Final Orders of Removal, than any other president, by far!”
As Mediate notes, this was a bit of a humble brag, as Trump has a history of advocating against “nice” behavior. During his first term, for example, he urged police officers to restrain themselves from being too “nice” to suspects.
Trump — who also has an obsession with inflating numbers — then took a moment to accuse his predecessors of padding their math, rambling, “The pending Final Orders are being seriously delayed by the Courts, but that is also a record. President Trump has the Highest 12 Month Removal Total, by far, of any president, despite the fact that they fudge their numbers by including people that never even tried to come into the Country. Likewise, the Average Daily Catch and Repatriation is, by far, the Highest under President Trump. No other president comes close.”
The president then turned his sights on his critics, including Bream, whom he targeted with a misspelling of the word “milquetoast,” raving, “So, when you hear these Anchors, Pundits, Dumocrats, and Communists, try to make the case that President Obama’s numbers are comparable to President Trump, it would be nice if people like ‘Milk Toast’ [sic] Shannon Bream, and others, would put up a little fight — Just a little. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
A second post took aim at Obama and former President Joe Biden, yammering, “For all of those who like to say that Barack Hussein Obama, and his Vice President, Sleepy Joe Biden, did as many Criminal ICE removals as President Trump, the figures are just in. Number One, they included hundreds of thousands of people that never came close to getting into our Country, a difference of perhaps 50 percent in the numbers. We don’t include such categories but, even if we did, ICE and CBP removed many more Illegal Aliens under President Trump than under Obama — It’s not even close! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
While support for Trump’s mass deportation effort was strong at the beginning of his second term, after a year of widely denounced brutality against immigrants and protesters, backing for his approach has fallen off steeply. As a recent poll revealed, over half of Americans now believe the Trump administration is “doing too much” on deportations.