Trump weighs in on New York City mayor, vaccines and drones [Video]

PALM BEACH, Fla. –

In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, declared the country was “not going to lose” the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey.

Holding court with reporters for the first time since he won the election and secured a second term, Trump also called on the Biden administration to stop selling off unused portions of southern border wall, threatening legal action.

“We’re going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on building the same wall we already have,” he railed. “It’s almost a criminal act.”

Trump’s performance Monday underscored how he has already forced his return to the centre of the national political conversation, weeks before he is set to return to the Oval Office. The session was notably less combative than some of the …