John Kerry admits Trump ‘was right’ about the border: ‘Without a border protected, you don’t have a nation’
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during a press briefing at the White House on January 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
OAN Staff Blake Wolf 1:25 PM – Thursday, July 10, 2025
John Kerry, former President Joe Biden’s “climate czar,” admitted during a Thursday interview that President Donald Trump is “right” about the need for border security, while the Democrats allowed it to fall “under siege” during Biden’s presidency.
Kerry, who also served as former President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, in addition to being the Democrat presidential nominee in 2004, admitted that Trump “was right” to prioritize border security — unlike his prior Democrat colleagues.
After leaving the Biden administration, he joined Galvanize Climate Solutions, acting as co‑executive chair to help direct investments into decarbonization projects globally, according to the Financial Times. His work centers on “bridging the gap between public ambitions and the trillions needed from private investors to push the clean-energy transition.”
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“The first thing any president should say, any president, or anybody in public life, is, without a border protected, you don’t have a nation, you have to have a border that means something,” Kerry stated. “We have a system. I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, ‘I’m going to enforce the law.’”
During Kerry’s interview on BBC’s “Reflections” podcast, BBC correspondent James Naughtie asked if Trump was spot on in regard to the border issue, to which Kerry responded: “He was right.”
“The problem is we all should have been right. Everybody should have been right, doing the same thing, all moving in the same direction,” he continued. “They just allowed the border to continue to be sieged, under siege.”
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Former Obama Secretary of State and Biden Climate Envoy John Kerry says Trump was right and Biden and the Democrats allowed the southern border to be “under siege” pic.twitter.com/TMxwDMNvyv
Within the first six months of Trump’s second term, the U.S.-Mexico border has seen record low numbers of illegal crossings, in contrast with the Biden administration, in which millions of illegal aliens from a slew of countries crossed into the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection data revealed that there were 9,000 apprehensions of illegal aliens at the border, with non-citizens attempting to cross into the U.S., which is in stark comparison to the roughly 118,000 attempting to cross the year prior under the Biden administration.
Additionally, President Trump secured additional funding for the subsequent mass deportation program, funding for border patrol enforcement and additional agents, and funding to complete the border wall on the Southern border — through the passage of the “One, Big Beautiful Bill.”
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