It wasn't a speech, it was a news conference and not a slick 'performance', but spoken from the man's humble heart!
As to the rest of you with the border comments, can you for a moment put your complaints aside and support this man? The burden he is bearing is incredible. I live on the border and next door to a border guard and I can tell you that the amount of effort to strengthen this border has been enormous compared to what it was pre 9/11 - it didn't get porous overnight and it is going to take time and concerted forces to fix it, but can't you quit griping at this man that he hasn't fixed everything that needs fixing?
Remember the effort, a few years back, called Hands Across America? Perhaps we could have a few gazillion border guards and volunteers form such a line across the vast, empty stretches of our various borders, eh? /sarcasm