Donald Trump has touted his efforts to secure the homeland, telling a raucous rally crowd in Florida that his administration is "taking care of our citizens at home" by defeating IS abroad and expelling violent street gangs from the US.
Trump said the US military is dealing IS "one brutal defeat after another".
"We (are) defeating these killers, these savage killers, horrible, horrible," Trump told hundreds of supporters at a rally in Pensacola.
The Florida region helped Trump win the White House.
"You don't even want to say people," Trump said.
"These are savage killers over there, but we sure as hell don't want them to come over here."
Trump also said he is expelling members of the violent street gang known as MS-13, which has its origins in Central America.
"America is being respected again abroad and we are taking care of our citizens at home and we're going to have safety and we have a lot more now," said the president, who appeared buoyed as he headlined his first campaign rally in more than two months.
Before arriving in the Florida panhandle, Trump reinforced his support for embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.
Trump told voters four days before they go to the polls that the "last thing" he needs in the closely divided GOP-controlled Senate is a "Liberal Democrat" who opposes his agenda.
The White House said the rally was a campaign event for Trump.
But the location, near the Alabama border and feeding television markets in the state, stoked speculation that the rally was a backdoor way for the president to give Moore's campaign a boost without actually setting foot in the state.
Moore, 70, has been dogged by multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including accusations that he molested two teenage girls and pursued romantic relationships with several others while in his 30s.
He has denied the allegations.
Trump, who overcame allegations of sexual misconduct to win last year's presidential election, looked past the charges against Moore and formally endorsed the former Alabama judge this week for the seat once held by Jeff Sessions, now the US attorney-general.
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