President Donald Trump used his combative Tuesday night address to Congress as a stage for renaming a national wildlife refuge in Texas after 12-year-old murder victim Jocelyn Nungaray.
Amid heated denunciations of the “terrorists” and “savages” allegedly allowed into the United States during former President Joe Biden’s tenure, Trump took the time to sign an executive order changing the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge name that was first assigned in 1963.
In his remarks, Trump noted that Nungaray was a self-described nature and animal lover, and he described the Houston-area refuge that now bears her name as a “pristine, peaceful 34,000-acre sanctuary for all of God’s creatures on the edge of the Gulf of America.”
Trump deployed much more violent imagery in recounting what happened to her and blaming it on Biden.
