Trump rambles about paperclips as ICE question sends him drifting into bizarre anecdote
President Donald Trump told a historically inaccurate anecdote about paperclips to justify his decision to replace airport security personnel with immigration agents.
The 79-year-old president spoke to reporters Monday morning before boarding Air Force One to travel from Palm Beach, Florida, to Memphis, Tennessee, and he claimed credit for sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into airports during the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
"Mine, that was mine," Trump said when asked whose idea that was. "
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