El Salvador’s Pres, Nayib Bukele, wasn’t there for handshakes and headlines—he came with a message.

Looking Pres Trump dead in the eye, he issued this challenge:

“You have 350M people to liberate.”

“We turned the murder capital of the world—that’s what the journalists called it—into the safest country in the western hemisphere,” Bukele said.

Critics have attacked his mass arrests, but Bukele flipped the script:

“Sometimes they say we imprisoned thousands. I like to say we liberated millions.”

Trump couldn’t help but smile:

“That’s very good! Who gave him that line? Do you think I can use that?”

Bukele didn’t stop there. He got to the core of the crisis:

“To liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. That’s the way it works, right? You can’t just free the criminals and think crime’s going to go down magically. You have to imprison them—so you can liberate 350 million Americans asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism.”