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Trump Delivers Remarks at a Rose Garden Mother's Day Event, May 8, 2026

May 8, 2026 · The White House · 0:20:03

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What happened

President Donald Trump delivered remarks in the Rose Garden on May 8, 2026, ahead of Mother’s Day, honoring mothers — including, in his words, “many strong and truly heroic moms who have stood up for their children both in life and in a very profound loss,” the angel moms whose children died in the drug epidemic. He thanked “the brave moms fighting the epidemic of drug addiction here this afternoon.”

On interdiction, the President stated that drug flows by sea were down 97 percent under the current approach — “We’ve started a very strong — the sea was more difficult and now we’ve started land and it’s, you’ll see it coming down” — and said land routes through Mexico would be addressed next. He put the toll at “200,000 people a year through this poison that pours into our country” and said “the cartels rule Mexico.” He also walked the audience through the Rose Garden’s restoration, from waterlogged grass to the white stone surface and new roses.

Why it matters

The event ties the administration’s drug-interdiction posture to the families who carry its cost, in the President’s own framing, on the Border & Immigration hub: sea routes first, land routes next, with the angel moms as the moral witnesses for the policy.

Scoreboard watch

The figures as stated by the President — sea-borne drug flow down 97 percent and roughly 200,000 overdose deaths a year — are recorded here as the baseline claims for the interdiction record.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Delivers Remarks, May 8, 2026,” The White House, May 8, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by President Trump at the event.