OrangeVerse XXIII: Congratulations

Last Friday, the president spoke at the swearing in ceremony for his new Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen. She was previously chief of staff at DHS under then Secretary General John Kelly, who left that department to become Trump's chief of staff. Here's how the verse went down.

I

Well, this

is an honor. 

You've been with us

so long now. 

Anyway, I have no doubt.

And it's going to be incredible

what takes place.

II

I want to start

by thanking Elaine.

You've done so well

and we really appreciate it.

And I know 

you'll e here

for a long while and

working together

but this

is a very special occasion

because this

is an issue I ran on -- 

it's borders, it's 

homeland security.

And it's one of the

certainly important things.

I can't ever say

anything is the most important

because our military

is the most important

and lots of

other things.

But this is right here.

This is one of the

real big issues.

III

And I just want to

congratulate you on

such an important

day for our country.

The numbers have been

so incredible,

they're up to 78 percent.

if they used to have

a 1 percent or 2 percent number

they used to celebrate.

we're at 78 percent.

And it went down

a little bit because

actually,

a lot of people

aren't trying 

to come in so much

because they know

it's not easy.

IV

But you're going to

take it to new levels.

We're going to 

get the wall.

I know you want

the wall.

We're going to 

get the wall.

If we don't

get the wall, 

then I got a lot

 of very unhappy people

starting with me.

We're going

to get the wall.

And we need it.

We need it 

for the drug flow,

we need it

for the people

coming into our country. 

And we want

to have great people 

coming into our country.

We want to have

a merit-based system.

We have to get

rid of chain

migration --

all of these things

we've been talking about.

V

And in addition

to the wall, we

 have to toughen

up the borders

even more. And we

have to toughen

up air travel too.

It's not 

just walls; 

it's lots of people

fly in and

they come in through

other means.

VI

But I have

absolutely no doubt

you're going to be

so outstanding

And I'd like to

congratulate you

and I wanted to

be here

for the big moment.

VII

Congratulations.