Trump insists he did ‘everything right’ after falsely linking New Orleans attacks to immigrants

President-elect Donald Trump claimed early Thursday that he was “right about everything,” hours after he mistakenly tried to link the New Orleans attacks to immigration.

“Our country is a disaster and the laughingstock of the world!” Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after midnight. “This is what happens when borders are open and leadership is weak, ineffective and almost non-existent.”

In a follow-up post, he declared in the third person: “Trump is right about everything.”

Trump reiterated his previous view that he was wrong about everything.

In a Truth Society post on Wednesday, the president-elect falsely tried to link the Bourbon Street truck attack — in which authorities said the attacker was a Texas native and U.S. military veteran — to immigration, while He has a long-standing hatred of immigrants.

“When I say the criminals coming in are worse than the criminals in our country, that statement is constantly contradicted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turns out to be true,” Trump wrote.

“Crime in our country has reached unprecedented levels. Our hearts go out to all the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans in investigating this act of pure evil.” And recover from it!”

Trump’s statement came after Fox News ran an erroneous report that said the rental truck used by the suspect in the New Year’s Day attack crossed the border from Mexico into Texas two days earlier, which has since been retracted.

In fact, the car entered the United States from Mexico on November 16, driven by a man unrelated to Wednesday’s horrific incident.

The FBI has identified 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the U.S.-born suspect who allegedly deliberately drove a truck into a crowd, killing 15 people and killing dozens more Injuried. Authorities said Jabbar was killed after a shootout with police.

Officials said Wednesday afternoon there was no evidence linking the attack to the border, despite Trump’s inflammatory posts seeking to link the two.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said the FBI was investigating the incident as an “act of terrorism.”

The FBI said an Islamic State flag was on the vehicle and that the agency was “working to determine the suspect’s potential ties and affiliations with the terrorist organization.”