Former President Donald Trump admitted on Thursday that he had not been told about the potential threat posed by a suspect who threatened his life in Arizona — or the manhunt that was underway at the time to find him.

Trump spoke with reporters after addressing the crowd on border security, focusing heavily on the violent crime that has been the unfortunate result of virtually unchecked illegal immigration and trafficking — of both drugs and humans — across the porous southern border.

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“I heard it’s dangerous, but I have a job to do”: President Trump responds to news that manhunt is currently underway for man who threatened his life in Arizona pic.twitter.com/68TQ3RYVIY

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One reporter asked Trump directly whether he’d been informed that someone had threatened his life — and that there was a manhunt still underway to track down the suspect — and Trump simply replied: “No.”

“For the Daily Mail, today there was a manhunt going on in this county, somebody made death threats to you,” he said. “Did you hear about that before coming?”

“No,” Trump said.

“What are your thoughts coming down here? Some people told me it’s dangerous for you to be here,” the reporter followed up.

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“I’ve heard it’s dangerous, but I also have a job to do,” Trump said. “I heard it’s very dangerous, I hadn’t heard about that. They probably want to keep it from me.”

“Thank you for telling me,” he added with a laugh, looking over his shoulder and joking to his Secret Service detail, “Let’s get outta here, right now. No, thank you very much for saying, but no, and I have great respect for Secret Service, the job they do — including a month and a half ago when they were jumping on top of me with bullets flying right at them, so … no, I haven’t heard that, but I’m not that surprised. The reason is because I want to do things that are very bad for the bad guys.”