Posted on 02/10/2020 12:20:04 PM PST by ransomnote
East Room
7:53 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much, everyone. Its great to have our governors with us, and spouses and friends. Please, sit. Please.
So this is my fourth one with our First Lady, and I want to thank the First Lady for having done such a beautiful job with the settings and all of the things. She works very hard on these things, so I want to thank her very much. (Applause.)
I also want to thank Mike Pence, Vice President. Fantastic person. (Applause.) Mike and Karen, thank you very much for working so hard. (Applause.)
So we have an incredible group of people. I know just about all of you, and we argue a little bit, but 90 percent of the time we get along. And I just said, Call the White House, call me anytime you have difficulty, because were all in this together.
Our states are doing fantastically well. We have a tremendous sampling of our governors. Great a great turnout tonight, which we appreciate. And anything I can do to help, youre going to let me know; youre going to call.
I thought wed do something a little different tonight thats never been done before, and rather than sitting and making small talk all night, I thought well have the press leave. When they depart, well start asking questions, making statements. You can make if you have any suggestions, wed love to hear them. If you have any questions, Id love to answer them for you.
But well have an exciting evening, and its a little bit different. That hasnt been done. Were meeting tomorrow morning, as you know, but this will take a little bit of the edge off tomorrow, but thats okay with me. Thats fine. (Laughter.)
So were going to have a tremendous evening. And again, Id like to thank the military, the bands the people who work so hard the chefs. Theyve been just fantastic. (Applause.)
We had a tremendous we had a tremendous week. The State of the Union was something that I think people really enjoyed. I very much appreciate the receptivity to what we all had to say. And some of you were there; many of you were there, actually. But I it was very exciting.
And then, of course, as you know, last week, we made our deal with China. We made our deal with Japan a couple of weeks before that $40 billion. We made a tremendous a tremendous USMCA deal Mexico and Canada. Weve totally renegotiated the deal with South Korea. It was not a good deal for the United States; now its a great deal for the United States. And many other things, all inuring to the benefit of your states and to you as governors.
So I just want to congratulate you on having done, in all cases, a great job. Most of the states, almost everyone, has set a record. Youve had a record virtually every state. I can almost not even have to put it down in a speech, because I go to states, I speak and I say, Youve had the best year youve ever had.
But the fact is youve youve all I know you very well. Youve done a tremendous job. Its not easy being governor. And its you just look at the way our country is doing: Weve never done as well as were doing right now.
So its an honor to have you all. And were going to be doing some questions and some statements in just a little while. To the media, thank you very much for attending. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.)
END
7:57 P.M. EST
I thought wed do something a little different tonight thats never been done before, and rather than sitting and making small talk all night, I thought well have the press leave. When they depart, well start asking questions, making statements. You can make if you have any suggestions, wed love to hear them. If you have any questions, Id love to answer them for you.
But well have an exciting evening, and its a little bit different. That hasnt been done. Were meeting tomorrow morning, as you know, but this will take a little bit of the edge off tomorrow, but thats okay with me.
Thats fine. (Laughter.)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Sanctuary states, sanctuary cities may be brought up?
What? No pictures?
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