“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said on the South Lawn of the White House as he prepared to leave for his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. “Other people handled it. But Marco Rubio’s done a great job. And he wanted them out, and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”
Trump’s signature appears on the digital image of the proclamation available for viewing with the Federal Register, the government repository of official documents. And White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said late Friday that Trump did personally sign the proclamation.
But rather than say that the president misspoke, Cheung said Trump’s claim that he “didn’t sign it” was a reference to the law passed 227 years ago and not the more recent document — an explanation immediately questioned on social media given that reporters had specifically asked about the newer proclamation.
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