Posted on 09/18/2020 5:16:35 PM PDT by ransomnote
South Lawn
4:01 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: So we have a very big crowd. Its already formed. I mean, it started forming yesterday, I guess. Were going to Minnesota. Some of you are coming, I guess, I hope.
Do you have any questions? Well do it really quickly because were a little bit late.
Q Mr. President, on TikTok, will you sign off on a on a deal that leaves ByteDance as the majority owner?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, were going to take a look. Theyre going to be showing me everything in a little while, on TikTok. And we have some great companies who want to buy it, and were looking at those companies. Were looking at, most importantly, the security, with respect to China. And were going to make a fairly fast decision. I dont think we have to delay it too much, but we have some great companies and some very great interests. Its a you know, its a pretty incredible asset.
Q Do you want to replace Christopher Wray?
Q On the FBI, do you have confidence in Director Wray?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, youre asking me a question. I disagreed with him on those, I think, very important points. Obviously, China is at the top of the list. And I think Russia and North Korea and many other countries can be talked about. But China would be at the top of that list, so I dont know why thats not mentioned. And obviously, Antifa these are thugs. These are bad people. These are people that hurt a lot of people a lot of good people.
And Antifa and that man is agreeing with me. Unfortunately are you a reporter? I wish you were a reporter. Hes not. Hes a good person, but hes back there shaking shaking his head yes.
The fact is that Antifa is a bad group, and theyre criminals and theyre anarchists and theyre agitators, and theyre looters and rioters and everything else. Theyre bad.
And when a man doesnt say that, that bothers me. I wonder why hes not saying that.
Q Do you agree with Bill Barr?
THE PRESIDENT: I think Bill Barr has been incredible. Right? Hes strong. Bill Barr is strong, hes tough, and hes smart. And I think he agrees with me on this stuff. Its he sees whats happening with certain locations.
Now, we can clean it out if the Democrat governors, who are just weak or something is wrong theyre weak on crime. They dont even want to mention the words law and order. If they called us like, in Portland, we would have that situation taken care of in a half an hour. All they have to do is call. We will be there in a half an hour.
Seattle only got straightened out because they knew we were going we were going in there the following morning. We were all set to go, and they they immediately raised their hands. They gave up. But if they would call us, we would straighten out their problems. That includes Chicago, it includes New York.
Now, I have to tell you, Chicago has a great police department; they endorsed me. New York has a great police department New Yorks Finest; they endorsed me. They dont need any help. All they have to do is let them do their job, Mr. Mayor and Mr. Governor. If they let them do their job, you will have very little crime in New York, very little crime in Chicago.
But these liberal politicians Democrats they wont let the police do their job.
Q A lot of businesses in Minnesota do business with Canada. The closing of the border has been extended until October 21st. When do you want the border to be reopened?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, were going to see that. Were looking at the border with Canada. Canada would like it open, and, you know, we want to get back to normal business. We have the USMCA all done the new trade deal replacing NAFTA, which was probably the worst trade deal ever made by anybody. It was grossly incompetent. We have a great trade deal right now, and so were going to be opening the borders pretty soon.
Q Toward the end of the year, you hope?
THE PRESIDENT: Say it?
Q Toward the end of the year?
THE PRESIDENT: Could be. Yeah, were working with Canada. We want to pick a good date, having to do with the pandemic. And I happen to think were rounding the turn. Were doing very well. And the vaccines are coming. But even before the vaccines are coming if you look at Florida, if you look at Texas, if you look at Arizona some places that flared up a little bit we are doing really well. Theyre all doing very well.
Q Mr. President, just to clarify: Cristopher Wray would you like to replace him, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: No, were looking at a lot of different things. And I dont I did not like his answers yesterday, and Im not sure he liked them either. Im sure that he probably would agree with me.
Antifa is bad really bad. And if you look at it whos the big problem? The big problem is China. And we can have others also, and Im not excluding anybody, but the big problem is China. And why he doesnt want to say that, that certainly bothers me.
Yeah.
Q Youve been saying, sir, and you just said now that were turning the corner. How do you say that, given that 200,000 people have died?
THE PRESIDENT: Have died. And projected if you look at the initial projections, it was up to 240, 250 thousand if everybody did their job. If they didnt do their job, it would be two and a half, three million people, three and a half million people. But you saw the same chart.
So heres the bottom line: We shouldve lost nobody. China shouldve never allowed it to come out. Shouldve never, ever allowed it to come out. But the projections would be if we did a really good job, with the shutdown, which we did, it would be 240 up to 240, 250 thousand people. Youve seen those numbers, and so have I. If we didnt do our job, it would three and a half, two and a half, maybe three million people million people.
We have done a phenomenal job with respect to COVID-19. We have done a job that was incredible. Look at the other side of it. Look at Biden, Sleepy Joe Biden. He had a thing called swine flu. It was a disaster. Much easier to handle. Much less severe. But it was a disaster. And his own man that was in charge of it said it was a nightmare, it was a disaster, they did a poor job, they didnt know what they were doing. Joe Biden doesnt have a clue. All he does is criticize.
Weve done an incredible job, whether its the vaccines which are coming, the therapeutics, which are already here therapeutics. Theyre already here, and they started remdesivir and others. The plasma is working out incredibly well.
Look at what happens. Look how much better people do if they do have to go and they do end up in serious condition. Look at how much better theyre doing now because of what weve done therapeutically. Its been amazing. The numbers are amazing.
Weve done a great job. But then you have to take a look at swine flu H1N1, okay? which Biden calls N1H1 because he doesnt know the name. The H comes before the N. Its very easy to remember. Take a look at the job he did, where his own people and the man that was in charge said it was a total disaster. A total disaster and worse than that. And they got very, very poor marks.
We have done an incredible job. Throughout the world, I get called by prime ministers and presidents saying, Sir, the job youve done is amazing.
Q Which ones?
THE PRESIDENT: On testing on testing Ill give you a whole list.
Q Which ones?
THE PRESIDENT: On testing, we have the greatest testing anywhere in the world. Were, I think, 60 million tests more than India 1.5 billion people. Nobody has done the job that weve done.
All right, thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
END
4:09 P.M. EDT
Question: Mr President. How can you live with yourself because of all the mean things you do?
President: Would you like to go for a ride in my helicopter?
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