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Cabinet Room
February 27, 2020 5:22 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I want to thank you very much. Were here with some of the black leaders of our country and people that are highly respected and people that have done a fantastic job and, for the most part, have been working on this whole situation with me right from the beginning. And weve done a lot. Weve done Opportunity Zones. Weve done criminal justice reform. Weve done things that people didnt even think possible. Criminal justice reform weve let a lot of great people out of jail. (Applause.)
And, you know, Alice Johnson is, really, just such a great example. A fine woman. And she doesnt say she didnt do it; she made a mistake. But she was in there for 22 years when we let her out, and she had practically another 20 left. And thats not appropriate.
MS. KING: Her children grew up, her grandbabies.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, I know. So incredible. And you couldnt produce theres nobody is Hollywood that could have produced that last scene of her. That was the real deal of her when she saw her kids. So its really a fantastic thing.
So what I think I do is Id like to for the media, Id like to go around the room, and we can do just a quick introduction of each other.
And Ill start with me. My name is Donald John Trump. (Laughter.) And Im President of the United States. (Applause.)
PARTICIPANTS: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: We have a lot of great things in store and a lot of interesting times. And youve been seeing the polls. The polls have been incredible. Weve had some polls with and I could say black, I could say African American, or I could say both. But Ill tell you what: The polls are at a level that people have never I dont think theyve seen, in terms of Republican.
And I wont be satisfied until I get 100 percent, because nobody has done more for black people than I have. Nobody has done more. (Applause.)
And so, I appreciate it. Weve been in this together and what weve accomplished for black people for the country, but for black people has been unprecedented, I believe.
Terrence? Please.
MR. WILLIAMS: Well, I am comedian Terrence K. Williams, and I am sitting next to the greatest President since Abraham Lincoln! (Applause.) Yes.
MS. STANTON-KING: Angela Stanton-King, founder of American King Foundation, recently pardoned by the greatest President ever. (Applause.)
PASTOR SCOTT: Pastor Darrell Scott, Cleveland, Ohio. New Spirit Revival Center. Black Voices for Trump. Urban Revitalization Coalition. Im a Johnny-come-lately here, but I believe in what this guy is doing. (Applause.) Im onboard the Trump Train now.
MR. BERTO: Im Andre Berto, two-time world champion. Im here with my man, Jack Brewer, to support Trump and were here to make great things happen. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thats great. Hes a great fighter. I didnt see you down there. (Laughter.)
MR. LITTLE: Mr. President, its an honor. You truly are the best President since Abraham Lincoln.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.)
MR. LITTLE: My name is Marc Little. Im the chairman of the Board of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education run by Star Parker, and its an honor to be with each and every one of you. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.)
MR. TURNER: Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. My name is Scott Turner, and I serve as the executive director for the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Inaudible.) (Applause.)
MR. SMITH: All right, good afternoon, everybody. My name is Rob Smith. Im Americas favorite black gay Republican. (Laughter.) I had my second coming out a couple years ago in support of this administration and all the amazing things that are happening. So, Mr. President, I would like to thank you for having me at this table.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. (Applause.)
MS. ROLLINS: Im Brooke Rollins. I have the amazing honor and blessing of serving this President now for two years and focusing on forgotten communities and communities that have never had a shot at the American Dream until this man was elected President of the United States.
So it continues to be my greatest honor. Thank you. And these are amazing friends here. (Applause.) So what a great day.
MS. BORELLI: Deneen Borelli. Im with Black Voices for Trump and Women for Trump. And I just want to say: Ive taken a lot of arrows for you, but I am proud to do it because I appreciate everything you have done for the country. (Applause.)
MR. KUSHNER: My name is Jared Kushner. I know all of you here (laughter) and I just want to thank you all for coming. I tell my I tell the President all the time how proud I am of the job hes doing, but I want to tell all of you that Im very proud of you. Youve been great partners of this White House. Youve come with ideas; youve come with suggestions. And every time I bring these ideas to the President, he always says, If these are the things that need to get done, lets do it. Lets spare no resource. Lets get it done.
And what weve done together is weve found pathways to really revitalize a lot of communities, but also revitalize a lot of people and create a lot of opportunity for people who didnt feel it before. So I just want to thank all of you for your leadership in your communities and for helping us work to accomplish what we have under this Presidents leadership. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Jared. Right behind you, I see, through all of these cameras, we have one of our great stars. Will you please stand up? (Applause.)
MS. PIERSON: Katrina Pierson, Senior Advisor to the Presidents Reelection Campaign, here in support of all of the great work that President Trump is doing. One of the reasons and I dont even know if Ive ever shared this with the President that I supported Donald J. Trump, the candidate, from the very beginning was because I knew that he would fight for forgotten communities, and I knew that if we elected Donald Trump as President, we could deliver a generation of black children from poverty. (Applause.)
MS. WASHINGTON: Im Stacy Washington, and Im the host of Stacy on the Right. And Ive been supporting you from the moment you were the nominee.
THE PRESIDENT: Thats right.
MS. WASHINGTON: And after that, I have been amazed by the absolute way you have youve banished all of your naysayers when it comes to the pro-life issue, the religious freedom issues, the things that are nearest and dearest to my heart. Im wearing my baby feet and then also my defense pin because you are the first President since Ive been an adult Im a veteran whos ever said we need to bring our troops home from Afghanistan.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. And were doing it. Were doing it.
MS. WASHINGTON: And I believe in what youre doing, and I thank you for it. We pray for you and we are just ready for you to have four more years. So, thank you for letting me come into the Peoples House and sit with you today. (Applause.)
MS. KING: Im evangelist Alveda King, executive director of Civil Rights for the Unborn and founder of Alveda King Ministries. People ask me all the time, What do you do for the President? I pray for the President. (Laughter.)
Now, the other thing is, What has he done for you lately? And we dont have time, but: promises made, promises kept; saving little babies in the womb; bringing steel mills back; bringing jobs back to America; helping with the economy; reuniting our families. And the list goes on and on. Promises made, promises kept.
And Im old enough to say Im 69 years old. But having seen this saying Ill do it, mostly with a smile, and getting it done. So, Im very grateful. And getting that girl out of jail. Jesus. Not a jail pardon Angela King. Pardoning Angela. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: (Inaudible) your reference your reference was so important for Angela, and you told me what a wonderful person she is. And she was there for a long time and was going to be there for a long time. Do you want to mention that?
MS. KING: Shes pardoned. And the first thing she did because she cried I dont remember; Jared remembers. I called one day. I said, They chain women to the bed when theyre having babies in jail. Oh! So that stopped. And then Angela called one day, crying: (Inaudible), the immigrants, the immigrants but they separate us from our children here in America. I say, Jared! Jared! (Laughter.)
MS. KING: So, the day you called and said she was getting out, I said, Sir, after I get up off the floor, Ill talk to you. So Im just grateful. Ill be quiet. But thank you. Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Thats great. No, Im very happy you told us about it. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Jack?
MR. BREWER: Im Jack Brewer, former NFL player. Currently, Im a professor at Fordham Gabelli School of Business. I have worked my entire life for underserved black communities, teaching my brothers and sisters from the NFL, now at Fordham, in the inner cities, doing community work.
And I got to say, Mr. President, I ran the NFL Players for Obama, and Ive been a Democrat all my life (inaudible). And you changed me. You changed me. You touched me. And you made my work go to another level. You inspire me.
And every time I go into those prisons and I ask my guys, you know, How many of you have had your sentence reduced? and they raise their hand, I know Im doing Gods work. So I thank you for that. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
MR. HARRIS: Mr. President, you had me at hello. (Laughter.) When you started debating and you were talking about you were talking about unborn babies, and I saw you championing those babies, while, on the other side, which is just like today, the Democrats, they dont want to give any chance to unborn babies at all, I made a video; it went viral. I wound up writing a book about what I believed I saw that was taking place in our country called, Why I Couldnt Stay Silent. And I just continue to be impressed and honored at how much you have stood up to your word, how much youve done for all Americans, and how thats risen the black community as well, how you champion the lives of unborn babies.
And it is a privilege and an honor. David J. Harris, Jr., by the way; I think I forgot to say that. But its a privilege to be in airports and wear my hat (applause) and show everybody. And I travel all over the country. I speak. I travel all over the country. I love showing folks that black Trump supporters do exist.
And even more than that, it gives me an opportunity I did just last night in Nashville the opportunity to speak to black folks and Hispanics, but especially blacks that look at my hat and say, Why do you support this President? And when I rattle off all the things that youve done and why I support you, they say, Wow, I didnt know that, because theyre listening to mainstream media.
So thats why Im also a news source at DavidHarrisJr.com to give the people the real news and not the twisted, liberal, left-driven news that is the mainstream media of today.
Its an honor to support you 100 percent. Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, David. Thats really nice. I actually saw you walking through the airport. (Laughter.) You know, I it was all over the place; you know, that is a very famous clip. That was great. But I appreciate it, David. Thank you very much.
Heres a guy doing a great job.
MR. SMITH: Mr. President, its been an honor to serve with you from the beginning of the administration. Youve made African Americans a priority. You gave me an opportunity to kind of work and do things that I didnt even know I could do. But we have results and were creating opportunity now: historic investments into HBCUs, historic criminal justice reform, historic numbers for black unemployment rate, as well historic investment in some of our most distressed communities.
We have all the tools to create a renaissance in this country, and its under your leadership. And all I got to say is: The best is yet to come. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: You knew you could do it. (Laughter.) I didnt know you knew you could do it. You had no doubt. Great job.
MR. LANIER: Kareem the American Dream Lanier. (Laughter.) Urban Revitalization Coalition. I work with Dr. Darrell Scott.
Mr. President, from day one from day one, youve kept your word to our community. Youve done your job with your policies, with the criminal justice reform, with Opportunity Zones, with HBCUs. Now its our job to get the word out about what youve done for our community.
We have a simple job. Youve done the hard work for us, and now we just have to get out and push the message because the mainstream media will not tell the people the great things youve done for our community. And we thank you. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
MR. GRADENIGO: My name is Derrick Gradenigo, from Houston, Texas oil and gas exec, whos been doubling as an influencer because Im so motivated by this President. Thank you for having me here.
THE PRESIDENT: (Inaudible.)
MR. GRADENIGO: Yes. Seems were having a competition: one person said 2016; Kareem says day one. As a kid, I knew. (Laughter.) Let me tell you why.
I grew up in a different California, in the 80s: a Reagan-esque California. Grew up in Sacramento. Somewhat affluent means, in a predominantly white neighborhood. And I remember times when there were affluent people, white people, who would say, Donald Trump, you know, he shouldnt be hanging out with Mike Tyson. Shouldnt be hanging out with Don King. Shouldnt be on a plane with Michael Jackson.
So, the lies that I heard today, they really bother me, because the Donald I knew enlightened me that a man of his means could not see color, and see a man and give a man a chance give a man a true chance to show himself, not judge him. Thats what makes me able to sit at this table. Im not a perfect male, but at the end of the day, Im still here because I matter.
And I want to thank you for motivating me from when I was a child. And now I sit here, all these years later, around the table, with the man that motivated me. Thank you. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
PASTOR WHITE: Mr. President, Pastor Paula White. Its been my honor. And, Derrick, I wont take it back any longer, but to stand with you for 19 years in life and watch you whether it was at Trump Tower invite people of all different walks of life, from the lowest to the highest in society, of every different type of person, and now to serve you in this administration, I agree: You are the greatest President, and will go down in history as you create history for all Americans. (Applause.)
MR. LEVELL: Its hard not to get choked up. My name is Bruce LeVell, and Ive been with the President since day one. Pastor Darrell, I love you and thank you for introducing me to Pastor to President Trump.
You know, when he said he wanted to defend the babies, Im a rescue baby from an orphanage. And when this President came out and said, What about adoption? I wonder where I would be, and I wonder what it would be like if this man wasnt in office, just defending the babies in the womb or someone like me that was left abandoned in a home. And thats very dear to me.
You know, Im one of the largest black-owned jewelry store owners. My wife that runs it, shes the boss in Atlanta. And, guys, let me tell you, its for the press Im just going to for the record, this President is about to resurrect and restore black generational wealth like you have never seen before. (Applause.)
Okay? Not only are we talking about building you know, creating jobs in the community, not only we talk about prison reform yeah, Opportunity Zones but how many Presidents says, You know, you build the grocery store. You build your business. You create your generational wealth. You restore your 401(k).
The disconnect and all the candidates that are leading the Democrat Party, especially Biden, are the ones that started the prison reform bill. He sponsored it in 94 for crying out loud.
No flag on the stage. Where is the flag for the where where is that? Thank, God, we have 100 flags when hes on the stage. Thank you, Jesus.
You know? So, guys, you know, this yes, he will and is the greatest President for the African American community, the black community, brown, mocha give me another one, Alveda. (Laughter.) Okay? Can I get one witness at the table?
And the other thing, how are you out in the press for 45 years with all these friends traveling everywhere and I was privileged to travel with you in the beginning. Opened the rallies. Thank God for Pastor Darrell. All the things weve been through. Now he runs for President; now, all of a sudden, hes a racist. How is that? Yall know thats a lie. Yall need to stop that. Im so tired
MS. KING: It is a lie. And, Bruce, he is not colorblind. He can see.
MR. LEVELL: I Alveda, I know that.
MS. KING: He loves us.
MR. LEVELL: I know that.
MS. KING: But hey, color is good, not bad.
MR. LEVELL: You you know why?
MS. KING: He could see Jesus (inaudible). (Laughter.)
MR. LEVELL: Because he loves God and he loves Christ
MS. KING: Yes.
MR. LEVELL: and that is through Him. And yall know what Im talking about. Dont be afraid to say it. Come on. (Applause.) Come one. You know?
Im tired. Im tired. It irks me. It irks me when you call this man a racist. My skin crawls right now. And Im tired of it. (Applause.)
My leg hurt. I got a new knee. I dont feel good. (Laughter.) Look! Look! Look! Im hurting. You attack him, you attack all of us. (Applause.) And Im tired.
PARTICIPANT: We all are.
MR. LEVELL: Im sorry, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: (Inaudible.)
MR. LEVELL: Hey, I love you.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Appreciate it.
MR. LEVELL: Jared and family, we pray for you and we pray for the family. Thank you for sacrificing.
Guys, hes losing money. He is the only President that comes to the and loses money. Everybody else that serves makes money. He loses money. And everyone knows that, sir. Myself all of who serve at the pleasure of the President lose money. It doesnt matter what level youre at. Dont forget that.
There is no pay to play. There is no special interest. There is nothing that he owes anyone. I will run for President and I will not take special interest money and not be beholden to anyone except God. (Applause.) Im sorry. Im sorry. (Laughs.) Im sorry. Im sorry.
THE PRESIDENT: I will say this: I do lose a fortune being President (applause) because were doing very important work.
But it is and, you know, something I dont talk about but I give my salary its $450,000. I give it. And surprisingly, it now, it may be back in George Washingtons day, but they dont think any other President has ever given the salary. Its $450,000.
PARTICIPANTS: Wow.
THE PRESIDENT: So, no its money. And I give it. I never had a story I dont think Ive had a story that I give it. But I guarantee if I was ever late because it comes in quarterly if I was ever late, it would be a front-page story (inaudible).
And to be the best of our knowledge, we have not found another President that gave. But I appreciate what you just said. I appreciate it very much. (Applause.)
MR. DENNARD: My name is Paris Dennard. Mr. President, thank you for appointing me to a commissioner on the White House Fellows Commission. I serve on Black Voices for Trump and the advisory board. I worked for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which represents the publicly supported historically black colleges and universities.
And, sir, your first Black History Month celebration event there was a small group of us who came to the White House. We meet in the Roosevelt Room. Dr. Scott was there. JaRon was there. And at that meeting, I told you that you could you had the potential to go down as one of the greatest Presidents for the black community.
I didnt know if you were going to be able to do it, to be quite honest, because theres a great challenge, moving from campaigning to actually governing and being the President.
But people can talk about all the things that you promised on the campaign trail, but that doesnt matter. The things that matter are the things that youve actually done in your position as the President. For the black community, sir, you are changing lives. Youre changing lives for generations.
There were thousands of people, millions of people out there that will never get a chance to meet you, but they meet us, they see us, and they tell us all the time how appreciative they are. And their minds are opening.
The things that Candace is doing with Blexit and everything that the campaign is doing with opening up these centers that are going to be in dozens of cities across the country, its because you are leading by example and youre changing lives for the better. And I am so proud and Im honored to defend you, to support you because its easy. Its easy because the policies are making a difference.
So on behalf of the millions of black people that will never have this tremendous opportunity like weve been given today, I want to say thank you from my family, from my friends. Thank you for what youre doing because you are changing lives.
And in Black History Month, we are here to celebrate black history, but were also here to celebrate the fact we have a President whos making black history. And we thank you. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
MS. OWENS: My name is Candace Owens. According to the New York Post, I am Democrats worst nightmare. I take great pride in being that. My I obviously run the Blexit organization. I started the Blexit movement because I really just wanted to develop a route for all of the black Americans to follow me away from the liberal ideas that I espoused in my youth.
I honestly, I know people are hitting at the mainstream media, but I got to tell you: I thank you all for waking me up, for calling everything racist to the point that it made no sense and I had to start digging. (Laughter.) Because every single thing the man said couldnt have possibly been racist if he had been loved and celebrated for decades.
So it is thanks to the lies, it is thanks to the left constantly overplaying their hand that so many black Americans are waking up today.
Theres a fatigue setting in. Were genuinely just tired of being told that everything is racist and everything around us is white nationalism and white supremacy. You may have seen me testifying in Congress against the absurd hearing of Democrats pretending to care about whats hurting black America at the same time that they murder millions of our babies, and at the same time that they remove fathers from the home systematically, via their welfare policies that they established, at the same time that they incarcerated our men for decades.
So what I say to you all is: Thank you, keep going, and we will meet you at the finish line when weve cracked the black vote. Thank you, Mr. President. (Applause.)
MS. HARDAWAY: I love it. Hey, Im Diamond with Diamond and Silk. And, Mr. President, there are those that write history. Theres those that read history. And I want you to know that you are making history. (Applause.)
MS. HARDAWAY: Now, I need you to understand that we not new to this; we true to this. From day one
MS. RICHARDSON: Day one.
MS. HARDAWAY: we have been on your side and weve never left it.
You know, I keep hearing the left talking about they a champion for this and a champion for that, but when is a champion going to win? Because they aint winning.
But we done already found a champion. A true champion.
MS. RICHARDSON: Thats right.
MS. HARDAWAY: Right here in our President, President Donald J. Trump. Thank you so much. Thank you, first of all, for making Diamond and Silk famous. (Laughter and applause.) (Inaudible.) Making us famous! I cant even go to the grocery store no more.
THE PRESIDENT: (Inaudible.)
MS. HARDAWAY: And let me tell you all two things. First of all, the first time we met him, he brought us on the stage and we didnt know what was going to happen. And the first thing that this businessman billionaire did was looked at us and said, I hope you monetize this.
MS. RICHARDSON: Yes.
PARTICIPANTS: Wow.
MS. HARDAWAY: Now, wait a minute, you all. This billionaire businessman, who happened to be white I aint never had a black man come up. Obama didnt come and say, Hey, I hope you monetize it. You couldnt have been sitting at this table of up under an Obama administration. But here, we sit here up under a Trump administration. This is a true champion.
Now let me say one more thing because I could talk forever and then Im going to let it go. President Trump is not a racist.
PARTICIPANT: No, hes not.
MS. HARDAWAY: What he is a realist. And the only color he sees is green and he wants you to have some of it. Okay? (Applause.)
He sees red, white, and blue.
PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible.)
MS. HARDAWAY: Thats right. Because hes very patriotic. He loves this country. He loves America and he loves Americans.
Here is my last thing: I want everybody to make sure that you vote right so you wont get left. (Applause.) Vote red. R-E-D: Remove Every Democrat by voting them out. (Applause.)
MS. RICHARDSON: Wow. Im Silk with Diamond and Silk. And Im usually the quiet one and the silent one. But, you know, silence can be violent. Allow me to say this: First, I want to say thank you for allowing me, as a black woman, a seat at the table.
PARTICIPANT: Thats right.
MS. RICHARDSON: You know? Because this would not have happened under Obama administration. It happened under Trump administration.
You know, they always say, Mr. President, that, Well, hes a little rough around the edges. But I always reply back and let them know that we need those rough edges to cut through all of the B.S. that be going on on the Hill, in Congress. We need somebody thats not going go along just to get along with some smooth edges. We need somebody that dont have a problem with going toe to toe against the status quo. And thats exactly what you did, Mr. President.
Were in the middle Diamond and Silk is the middle of writing a book, Uprising: The Awakening of Diamond and Silk. You know, when I when I while we were writing this book theres little things thats coming back to us, because weve been in this since 2015, from day one.
And one of as were writing, and Im looking at a lot of different things Mr. President, weve come a long way. A long ways at winning, winning, and winning. And you know what? They say the - they sing the song I Dont Feel No Ways Tired. But I havent gotten tired of winning. (Laughter and applause.) I dont feel it.
So I just want to say thank you, Mr. President. I love you from the bottom of my heart. And November the 3rd, 2020, you will be the President of these United States. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Great, huh? You know, my wife, the First Lady, said this a long time ago now; its like four years ago she said there are two people that she was watching on the Internet. Theyre the most incredible two people shes ever seen. I said, Big deal. What is it? You know, she said, You have to see this. And I saw its, I guess, almost five years and I watched them and they had such a spirit. And they were for me before I was even running. (Laughter.) They were so early. And you have been such great friends, and I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
And Candace, I will say that youre another one. She saw you too. She said, I just saw somebody with the fastest, sharpest mouth and mind. (Laughter.) By the way, you know, Ill tell you: I know a lot with fast mouths, but they dont have
And I said, Let me take a look. And I looked. And it was a long time ago already. You were really young. Youre young; you were really young.
But we appreciate it. We appreciate everybody in this room. And people have made such progress and were making tremendous progress.
You know, something that happened recently that the press doesnt write about but, every year a group of wonderful people from the black colleges and universities would come up to my office. A lot of people 40, 35, 50 one year. And after the second year, I said, How come you keep coming back? And they came back for money, Deneen. Money.
And I said, Why do you have to come back? Other colleges have money. You dont do you dont come back every year. And one of the gentlemen, who is a great guy, from one of the schools good school, very good school he said, We come back because we have to, because we need money. And we come back and other schools dont have to because we they want us to come back every single year. They want us to beg. He used that word. They want us to beg.
PARTICIPANTS: Wow.
THE PRESIDENT: And I said because I was (inaudible). You know, it was the first year they came, and I didnt think anything unusual. And the second year, and they come into the Oval Office and a big group. I heard of almost every one of the colleges and universities.
And after the third year, I said, You know, you shouldnt have to be coming and while Ill miss you if you dont come because theyre very good people I said, You should have a long-term deal. You shouldnt have to come back in like this. This is demeaning to you. He said, It is. We love being in the Oval Office, but nobody has ever had us in the Oval Office before. But it is demeaning to us to come back.
And we just passed a bill where theyre all set. They got the money and its long-term. They dont have to see me. Ill miss them. Ill miss them. And theyll miss me. But you know what? Now theyre all set. And they have a long-term future.
They were saying things like, We cant even fix up areas, even if we have the money because were not sure that the next President or even you are going to approve it next year. Maybe, for some reason, youre not going to approve it.
So thats one thing. And, you know, youve been hearing all about this, aand theyre very theyre a big heart of this nation. Thats they do a fantastic job. I got to know them a little bit and I said, So, were going to fix that up for you and were going to do it. And we did it I dont know what the length is, but its very long-term now.
PARTICIPANT: Ten years.
THE PRESIDENT: Its 10 years.
PARTICIPANT: Its the FUTURE Act.
THE PRESIDENT: So I dont know where Im going to be in 10 years. I probably wont be seeing them. But it was very I thought it was very unfair.
Now, the press isnt going to write that and theyre not going to write a lot of the things that were said in this room today because they just choose not to. I dont know why they choose not to, but so many nice things were said.
We have tremendous media in this room. We have tremendous media no matter where I go, I guess. And I can honestly say thats been true before I was President too, so I dont know what it is. Someday, somebody will explain that to me, but thats what its been. I guess thats how I got to be President, to a certain extent.
But they dont explain those stories. They dont explain Opportunity Zones, where Tim Scott, from South Carolina hell be with me. Im making a speech tomorrow a rally. And sells out immediately; we have tremendous popularity in South Carolina. Were going to go down.
Some people have said Im trolling the Democrats. And maybe I am. (Laughter.)
PARTICIPANT: I am!
THE PRESIDENT: Because we did in Colorado; we did it in, you know, New Hampshire. We no matter where we go Iowa no matter where we go, we have much bigger crowds. If one of the Pocahontas has 2,000 people 2,000 people. And they say, Oh, what a crowd. And Ill have 15,000 people inside and I tell you, you saw Colorado we had 20-, 25,000 people outside and 12,000 people inside. They dont say anything about the crowd. And the cameras dont cover the crowds.
My wife said, How how was it tonight? And I said, Great. Didnt you see? She said, I heard it. But they never go around to show the stadium. They never do. So we put it on the Internet. Thats the great thing with the Internet.
But, as she said but as I said, you cant disguise 25,000 or 15,000 or whatever it is. You cant disguise that. Because when you hear that sound, it sounds like an Ohio State football game, or an LSU or Alabama football game. So its pretty amazing. Its pretty amazing. But they dont talk about it.
And yet, when a Joe Biden, whos not sure whats happening but when he has an event, if hes got a crowd of a small crowd, just a small crowd theyll talk about how magnificent that was. And yet, well have 25-, 30,000.
We went to South Jersey and they actually reported it, which was shocking we had 175,000 requests for tickets. One hundred seventy-five thousand. And South Jersey is closed during the winter, essentially. I mean, people are opening up their hotels or opening up their homes. But we had 175,000 requests for tickets, and the place was just swamped with tens of thousands of people outside, and they dont want to talk about it. The whole thing is sort of crazy.
And I dont get it because its so good for our country, whats happening. And whether its black or white or any other group Asian, because you see whats happening with Asian; you see whats happening with Hispanic the best unemployment rates for every group. For very importantly, for black the best unemployment weve ever had by far and getting better. And getting better. (Applause.)
So weve set every record. Poverty numbers the best youve ever had. The best weve ever had for a number of groups. But black people, right now, are having the best statistically, the best numbers that youve ever had, and its really an honor.
We have a situation with the virus. Weve done a great job. The press wont give us credit for it. We have in a world that has some big problems you look at China and you look at industry between the two countries. And I did something that had never been done before because it had never been done before: I closed our borders to certain areas of the world. I wont be specific, because its not nice to be spe- you know, specific. But you understand where.
And I closed the borders to certain areas of the world very early. Wed never closed a border before. Weve never done that before. And flights coming in and people coming in because they had a very early problem. And I closed them.
I took a lot of heat from the Democrats. They said, Whats he doing? Because anything I do, theyll do the opposite. Like with the wall. We want security in our country. If I would have said, We will not build a wall, they would have insisted. And I should have done that. (Laughter.) I should have done that, David. If I did that, we wouldnt have had no problem. Right, Jack? So I should have said
PARTICIPANT: Im waiting for you to (inaudible).
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, youre right. I should have said, We will not have a wall. And they would have insisted. I would have had the wall. We would have been perfect.
But, anyway but weve done an incredible job because we closed early. And actually, the Democrats said I was a racist. Not from black-people standpoint, but from Asian-people standpoint, from Chinese-people standpoint. They said I was a racist because I closed our country to people coming in from certain areas. They called me a racist.
These people are really in trouble. Ill tell you what: Theyve got problems. And now they say, Oh We have 15 people in this country that, right now and then we brought in 40 from these were Americans that were in trouble way outside, near Japan. And we brought them in and they were in quarantine and theyre getting better. That was 40 or 42. We brought them in, which I felt we had to do.
So they immediately said, It jumped from 15 to an extra 40. (Laughter.) Headline. And everyone no, we brought them in, Jack, because if we didnt, I mean, were not going to let something happen. We had to do it. And I knew immediately that the press would add it and say this like its catastrophic, its ba- but weve done a great job.
Those people are all doing well. Theyre doing very well. The 15 of the 15, most of them are doing very well. One is quite sick, frankly. Most of them are doing really well. And the 15 will soon be down to 3 or 4 because we take them off the list as they get better and theyre recuperate. Like, if you had the flu, you recuperate. You get better. And theyre recuperating. But were think of it: Were at 15 people, and we would have been at many, many people had we not closed the border.
So we dont get credit for it. The press doesnt write it. They wrote a story today I gave a press conference last night that I thought was very good. It went very well. I know when it goes badly. I know better than anybody in the world if we say something I know better than anybody.
I mean, I dont go around like Biden, where Im in Ohio and I say, Thank you very much, the people of Iowa. (Laughter.) And they start screaming at him, No, no. Youre in Ohio. (Laughter.) This happens time after time. I dont say, We shot and killed 150 million people last year with guns which is exactly half of our population. And nobody talks about it. And then they say, Terrence, Oh, its fine. He did wonderful tonight. (Laughter.)
You know, thats one of those things not recoverable. If you say as an example, Im in New Hampshire and I say that Im in Iowa, youre dead. He gets away with it. If you say if I ever said or Jack, if I ever said that we have to do something about guns; last year we killed 150 million people. I guess he meant a tiny you know, a lot; but still, a tiny, tiny fraction of that number.
But if I ever said that, it may be career-threatening. But he said I mean, you heard him. He said in fact, when he said it, I said, Man, that was a big mistake. He was going to get he didnt get killed. They said, He did very well tonight. (Laughter.) He was fabulous tonight. He said we killed 150 million people. He makes some gaffes. He makes some gaffes. Hes gaffe-prone. (Laughter.)
Im actually not gaffe-prone. You know, if you think about it, I make these massive speeches. Id say 70, 80 you know, the best speeches are the ones where Im not on teleprompter. But teleprompter does make it a little bit easier. But you know, I make them I dont make gaffes. I get no credit for it. I dont get credit for these big crowds. I never get credit. But people are starting to figure it out because the job numbers are so good and things are so good.
But what where have really done a great job, I think, was what happened over the last couple of weeks with this and it just you know, this is life. Things come up that you never even think about. Who would think that this was going to happen?
You hear it starts with a problem that they have in China. And you say, Thats too bad. And then it gets bigger and starts mushrooming. And then I closed the border. I said, Just in case. And we have 15 people instead of thousands of people. Okay? It could have been thousands of people. I said, Just in case. And we have 15 people instead of thousands of people. Okay? It could have been thousands of people. But we have 15 people who are almost all better now.
But we do things. And it would be really nice if we could be recognized by the press fairly. And you know what? It would be really nice if we do something wrong, we get criticized by the press.
But I gave a press conference yesterday that was really a very good press conference. And some people thought it was great and most of you people saw it. It was covered live. One of the advantages is that I get covered live all the time. And I like that better because they cant chop it up and make it look Id rather be live.
But it was a very good press conference. And basically it was a calming press conference. It was a conference to say were doing well. It was a conference where I took out the statistics, which were recently done from Johns Hopkins, which is one of the great places in the country, where it says the United States is the most prepared nation think of that: Countries best prepared to deal with a Pandemic. So this was done by Johns Hopkins and it was put out. (Applause.) But they dont cover it. They dont cover it.
The second is United Kingdom, then the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Thailand, Sweden, Denmark, South Korea, Finland. Okay. So this is it. Were number one. And then the Democrats go out I see Schumer going out and these guys just a talking point. Frankly, I may do it if I was them, okay? To be honest. (Laughter.) Ive been known to do this too. And they ask you, How is he doing? Terribly. Hes doing terribly. Its horrible. Horrible. (Laughter.) Its so bad.
And I did say yesterday first time, because I understand politics. I think Im pretty well Ive only been doing it for a few years and I think, to the best of my knowledge, were in the White House. Right? (Applause.)
But I know politics. And, you know, politics is fine. But when it comes time to talk about pandemics or whatever you may want to call it, you got to get away from politics. And the Schumers Cryin Chuck and all of these people they cant Nancy you cant go out and just say, Terrible. Its terrible.
Were doing incredibly. Think of it: 15 people. Out of billions of people, 15 people. Theyre getting better and soon theyre all going to better, hopefully. One is in very serious shape, and we understand that, and we understand it very well, but but we also have the other group and theyre all getting better. So I think its an incredible achievement that our country has done.
And one thing I have to pay tribute, we have whether its Dr. Fauci we have the best people on Earth. We have the most talented people on Earth. Were giving whatever other countries need. Were helping them. Sometimes its over phone; sometimes were sending people. But we have to run our country too. A lot of people say, Why isnt he in China? Well, you know, China has to want that. And other places have but theyre running it and theyre working very hard, I will tell you. And were in very constant communication President Xi and myself. Very, very constant.
But we are doing and, by the way, their numbers seem to have maybe they look like theyre coming down which, eventually, hopefully, thats whats supposed to happen. But its gone to other places and those numbers will come down.
Weve done an incredible job in this country and the professionals and me, but forget me I did one thing that a lot of people disagreed with, including many of the professionals: close the borders. Because they said its too serious a move. I took tremendous heat. Tremendous heat. It was called everything, including, David, racist, okay? I was called everything. And for a while, I said, Maybe I shouldnt have done that. And now, it turned out to be great because we have so few people that have been affected.
But, I just think its really important for the media to report stories accurately. And they dont have to go overboard, but Ill tell you, they shouldnt go overboard the other way because they are trying to build this up and they are doing things and saying things that are absolutely crazy. And they are really hurting our country the fake news media. And its not all fake, but much of it is. And they have to cover this very accurately. You know, its different than covering other things.
This country is doing great. We are in a position that few countries would be in. And if we didnt have the talent running this country and all the way down, from top to bottom, the job that these doctors have done, the job that the professionals are doing. And were working with local hospitals, were working with the states all over the country.
And, you know, I got criticized because I said $2.5 billion. Thats a lot of money. See, $2.5 billion is a lot of money. And the Democrats said, How dare he only ask for $2.5 billion? But this never happened to me before. Usually, I ask for $2.5 billion, and they said, Were going to give you 10 cents. (Laughter.)
And I asked for $2.5 billion. My people came, This is what we need: $2.5 billion. And I said, Thats a lot. Thats a lot of money. Because, you know, if youre in business and you say, $2.5 billion, what I can build for $2.5 billion what I can do for that, Deneen.
So what happens is, Schumer says, He needs $8.5 [billion]. You know what I said, Jack? I said, Ill take it if you want to give it to me. (Laughter.) I thought, you know, Ill ask for a lot, and if I get a piece
So I they criticized me because they say $2.5 billion, he needs more. What they should do is say, Why does he need so much? But they dont say that because they have inverse thinking.
But the way they make you look bad is to say, How dare he only ask Think of that: How dare he only ask for $2.5 billion. We demand that he take $8.5 [billion.] Ill accept $8.5 [billion]. Ill take it if they because this never happened to me before. All my life, I ask, and I get a piece of it.
But the Democrats are screaming, How dare he do that? And theyre not doing a good job; were doing a great job. While theyre working on impeachment, we were working on doing this because we were hearing about it while they were wasting the countrys time and the worlds time, talking about the impeachment hoax. And they got shut out, except for one very foolish, frankly, not a very good senator. A man who got in on a false premise and hes not very popular in his own state. And I guess I got half of it. I say 52. We got 52 and half out of 53 votes, right?
But hes not a very popular guy, I can tell you. A lot of people arent liking him too much. And he shouldnt have done what he did. But we did nothing wrong. So we had to work through an impeachment hoax. Thats what they were doing.
In the meantime, we had already started preparing because we started hearing rumors. We are so prepared like we never have been prepared. Now, theyll come up with a certain amount of money whether its two and a half, Ill be satisfied with that; whether its eight and a half, well take that too. And well have a lot money left over, and well do a great job. Well probably do about the same job.
But I just want to say, this is really above politics. They have to take its easy for, you know, Schumer. What kind of a job do you think theyre doing? He should say, Theyve done a great job. And you know what? Hed actually pick up votes. People would respect him for that. Instead, What kind of job Theyre doing a terrible job. He has no idea.
We had a trade deal. I talked about it a little bit yesterday. A phenomenal deal with China. Billions and billions of dollars of worth is going to come into our country. Many billions of dollars. Its a great deal. And they went to Schumer and they went to others. Talking points. They went to the Democrats and they said, What do you think of the deal? Oh, its terrible. Terrible. They didnt even know what the deal was. In fact, he said, They took off the tariffs. They didnt want the tariffs. I put the tariffs on when he thought I took them off. We didnt. (Laughter.) We have $250 billion. Look at it. We get 25 percent on $250 billion, then we get more above that. And I left them on. People said, Thats amazing.
But the Democrats didnt know that. They said, He took off the tariffs. And you know what? They got killed. But the press doesnt report that. So the natural instinct and again, I should say, I do it too. Theyll ask me and, you know, you do it too. I guess its a natural political instinct. But when they say, What kind of deal is it? Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. And people get it.
With what were talking about now with the virus, we cant do that. We have to do it differently. If were doing a great job, we should congratulate these professionals that are the best in the world.
And you know what? If we were doing a bad job, we should also be criticized. But we have done an incredible job. Were going to continue. Its going to disappear. One day its like a miracle it will disappear. And from our shores, we you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. Well see what happens. Nobody really knows.
The fact is, the greatest experts Ive spoken to them all. Nobody really knows. But we have done and our professionals have done a fantastic job. Were working with other countries. Were trying to help some other countries. A couple of them have gotten hit pretty hard. South Korea and Italy, in particular. Theyve been hit pretty hard. And itll all work out. And I just want to thank all of the people that have worked with us in government and some of these great professionals because they have been incredible the job.
To think of it with all of what you see going on 15 people. We brought in the others, but and theyre doing good. But 15 people is almost, I would say, a miracle.
Also, what I want to do, though, is I want to thank the black people of America. Because, frankly, you people, what youve gone through over the years, and now youre making a comeback like youve never and I had a phrase I had a phrase during speeches, during rallies, and Id use it whenever I saw, whenever we had a lot of black people in there, okay? And I have to say, Id go through a list: You had the worst crime. You had the lowest housing ownership. You had and Id read 10, 15, 20 points.
And, look, a couple of them NBC just left because they dont want to hear this because they dont want (laughter). She just left. No, she just left, from NBC because its owned by Comcast. And theyre the racists because theyre (inaudible).
But I know this. I mean, she (inaudible). As Im talking, Im looking at her, shes not writing anything down because she knows shes not going to report any of this. She only wants to report something bad and theres nothing bad in this room. Whats going on in this room is incredible. (Applause.)
PARTICIPANT: Its amazing!
THE PRESIDENT: But when you look when you look at whats happening and I used to use the expression, What do you have to lose? It was much more effective when I said, What the hell do you have to lose? which I did a lot, but some people said its a bad word. Okay? If somebody else said it, its okay. If I say it, its a bad word.
PARTICIPANT: Hell is in the Bible.
PARTICIPANT: It is in the Bible.
THE PRESIDENT: (Laughter.) But it was much more when I said, What the hell They talked about it. You have tremendous crime. Tremendous lack of ownership. The worst schools. The worst this.
I read, like right? 10 points. And one day Im saying you know, I had that on the teleprompter, which are always a little boring. But here Im reading these points and Im looking at the audience, I said it wasnt like written. I said, The Democrats have ruled for 110 years. And you have all these horrible statistics. I said, Vote for me. What the hell do you have to lose?
You know, I came off the stage. And my people said, Sir, that was quite disrespectful. (Laughter.) I said, It was true. So I said, What do you have to lose? So now you look what Tim Scott has done with the Opportunity Zones. I mean, those Opportunity Zones are incredible. Your colleges and universities that weve just talked about. So many things.
But criminal justice reform this guy walked in. (Inaudible.) Jared. (Applause.) People could not get it approved. Obama couldnt get it approved. And nobody could get it approved. And I had to call in a lot of chips because we needed some very conservative Republicans to get this approved. And yet, we had some very we had Mike Lee. We had Ted Cruz. We had guys that were already onto it. Its one of the reasons I said, Whoa. But Chuck Grassley was already there.
And I said, Thats incredible that you have some of our toughest, most conservative people already there. And I was able to get other people, plus we were able to get it through, and it was a great achievement. And I want to thank Jared, because Jared came in and said (inaudible). (Applause.)
And just to finish, though, Ill tell you why people tend not to do things. Normally, people would be happy with that and the people that know are. You know better than anybody, Alveda, because you are sitting next to us and shes the one. (Applause.)
MS. KING: Yes. We have proof. We have proof.
THE PRESIDENT: But and you heard this story maybe. Van Jones was in my office, almost in tears and he was actually in tears asking for help. And I think thats good. I think thats noble and thats a good thing. And he was there because of Jared.
And there was a group, and they were saying, Its dead. Were five short. And a couple of the ones that were not against us were going to delay the bill and then it goes to asunder, right? Its goes to ashes.
When you delay it for a period of time its, you know, they were going to do things to delay it. Very easily to do very easy to do. I got them to be good. I didnt get their vote; I didnt need their vote. But they were great because they didnt delay it.
And, I mean, they were going to filibuster the bill so it wouldve gone on and on. And then, it would have just gone away, and people say, Hey, everybody has to go home. We have to start this again.
And they didnt do that. They were great. And we got the votes necessary. We got it done. Nobody else could have done it, in this case, but me. Nobody else could have done it. And Jared came in and he said, Youre the only one. And I got it done. He felt it was so important.
And I was getting mixed reviews. Now, Im getting tremendous reviews. But some of the people that didnt vote for it, theyre saying, I wish we voted for criminal justice reform.
So Van Jones is up making a speech. I said to my wife, Come. This will be going to be very nice. Look. (Laughter.) Hes on MSDNC, right? (Laughter.) The station. All right? Do you ever hear that one: MSDNC? No, its a natural right? Thats a natural. The worst. I mean, these people.
Ill tell you what: NBC is worse, in my opinion, than CNN. Theyre worse. Theyre absolute bad people. And they paid me a lot of money and I made them a lot of money with The Apprentice. They paid me a lot of money over the years. And I cant believe it. Theyre just bad theyre bad people. Theyre really bad people. And they dont report the truth. And neither does CNN. And neither does a lot of the media.
But so Van Jones is on there. I say to my wife, This is going to be great to watch. Lets watch this. Hes going to be so nice to us, because without me So he wanted to thank the Reverend Al Sharpton. (Laughter.) And then he went through a list of many people. He went through a list of many people. He went through a list he didnt mention your name either, by the way.
PARTICIPANT: He did not mention them?
THE PRESIDENT: He didnt mention anybody in this room. But and, by the way, maybe people in this room, maybe he wasnt aware. Maybe, you know but he went through a list of people that I never heard of. And he said, at the end it was the end of the show, which I think nobody watched because I dont think is the show still on? I dont think so. But it was the end of the how and he thanked a whole lot of people. I said to my wife, He never thanked me. (Inaudible.) Thats why I talk about it. You know why? Because I dont talk about it, people arent going to know.
I said to my wife, Nobody could have done it. President Obama couldnt do it. Bush couldnt do it. Nobody could do it but me. I got it done. Im good at getting things approved. Im very good at this. Like youre good at things, Im good at things. Hes good at football. This is guy is good at I never to follow him speaking. (Inaudible.) Right? (Laughter.) Ill ask Scott.
But I got it done. And he didnt mention my name. But Ill tell you what he did do. At the end of the show, he mentioned all of these names. And then he said, Now, look, we have one thing we have to do this year. We have to defeat this President of the United States. And you go out, and we have to defeat this President of the United States. I never forgot it. That was a few months ago.
I will never forget it. Its I have the great memory of all times. I will never forget that because it was bad and very, very it very terrible. Not mentioning my name was bad. Its not that I want I get enough publicity. But you know what? This was an important thing. To my family, it was an important thing. I mean, this guy worked so hard on getting that done and he didnt even mention or your name, by the way. But he didnt mention our name. We were like nothing. We were like nothing.
And I know how some of you feel. You do things and you dont get mentioned. Okay? But its the same thing. But then, on top, the indignity of saying, We must now focus on one thing. We must defeat this President of the United States.
And then the show ended. My wife said, That wasnt too good, was it? Its a disgrace.
So I just want to thank everyone. Youre a very special people to me, and I really do appreciate your being here.
And all of this you know, these stars, I hope youre making a hell of a lot of money. (Applause.) Because Ill lose billions of dollars. Im doing I lose a fortune between what I dont do and what it costs me.
You know what my legal fees are? Tens of millions of dollars. I spend tens of millions of dollars on legal fees, defending myself against scum because theyre scum. And then they say I get rich on this. If a man from an Arab country goes into one of my hotels, they say, Trump is getting rich.
They dont realize I dont even take foreign if somebody gets in, you lose billions of dollars, but if a person rents a hotel room for 300 bucks, its like a major event. These are very dishonest people.
Hopefully, out of all of this, the press will become much more honest. Theres no other word honest. And if they do, we have achieved something that will be great.
But we have our press, because (applause) our press is the Internet. Our press is being with you. Our press is as much as they hate all of us, I guess but they cant put the cameras although I did notice the one that did leave was NBC, which is pretty pathetic.
But were going to go into another room. Were going to celebrate because we have a whole group of people.
I want to thank the people at this table. Youve been so incredible. And beyond this table where is she? Shes back there. Shes
PARTICIPCANTS: Katrina!
THE PRESIDENT: I dont know what happened. She is so great. Thank you, honey. Im pointing at you. These big guys are standing right these great photographers are in front of you.
But I want to thank you all because youve been fantastic.
MS. RICHARDSON: May I just say
MR. LEVELL: Can we all say a prayer with you before you leave?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, go ahead. One second. Well do this.
MS. RICHARDSON: May I just say one thing that you did ask, four years ago, What the hell do we have to lose? But if we dont vote right this time, were going to have a hell of a whole lot to lose. I just want to say that.
PARTICIPANTS: Make sure you vote right, so you wont get left.
THE PRESIDENT: (Inaudible.) Youre going to have a lot. This could be overturned easily. We need that four years because, you know, I say its like a tree. You plant it, but takes a while to grab root. When this grabs root, theyre not going to be able to destroy (inaudible). (Applause.)
MR. BREWER: I dont want to interrupt, but I got to fade in because this is Black History Month. Man, youre the first black President. (Applause.)
MR. LEVELL: Father God, in the name of Jesus, we thank you, oh God, for this group holding up the arms of this President, oh God a President who cares, oh God, not just for black folks, but for every American, oh God. We pray his health. We pray his strength. We thank you, oh God, by the power of your holy spirit that youre protecting him. Youre protecting his family. And youre filling him, oh God. And we thank you for what you have done and what you have yet to do to through this, your vessel. In Jesuss name. Amen.
PARTICIPANTS: Amen. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you everybody. Thank you. Thank you everybody.
Were going over now. Were going over to the East Room.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, what?
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think the press has been really out of line. And I think theyre also very worried that, you know, were going to be running against somebody. And they see these characters up onstage and, you know, anything can happen in an election. And they see these people. And if any of these people ever did happen to assume the presidency, you would have a crash like youve never seen before.
And I think the market is also putting that into the equation. But the virus were doing a very professional job. We have the best people. Our Vice President is working very hard. We have tremendous people involved. And were doing as I said, were at 15 people and theyre getting better. We have one thats quite ill. We got them late. And but we have a country thats pulling together and pulling together really well.
I think the Democrats should not try and make this or the Republicans should not make this a political issue. This is above politics.
Again, we closed the borders very early. We didnt let certain regions of the world come in. By doing that, we really saved a lot. We made a great decision. I took a lot of heat over that decision, but it turned out to be the right decision. And thats why were at 15, and other places have many more.
So I just want to thank you, and thank the media too. Thank you very much.
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6:23 P.M. EST
President Trump: Excerpt: "And I’ll start with me. My name is Donald John Trump. (Laughter.) And I’m President of the United States. (Applause.)
PARTICIPANTS: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: We have a lot of great things in store and a lot of interesting times. And you’ve been seeing the polls. The polls have been incredible. We’ve had some polls with — and I could say “black,” I could say “African American,” or I could say both. But I’ll tell you what: The polls are at a level that people have never — I don’t think they’ve seen, in terms of Republican.
And I won’t be satisfied until I get 100 percent, because nobody has done more for black people than I have. Nobody has done more. (Applause.)"
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Thanks for posting this. Pics helps.
Just awesome. Too bad the Jim Crow Democrats won’t report any of it.
Too bad also that neither of President Trump’s African-American Month events on Thursday was carried on CSPAN.
OANN had the reception but made two failed attempts to air the video of this meeting.
Nothing on either Fox News or Fox Business as well.
The inroads President Trump has made into the black community obviously are experiencing a literal media “blackout!!!”
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