thank you everybody very much
thank you
so as we begin labor day
weekend america's unprecedented
economic recovery continues you see
what's going on
it's been pretty amazing the united
states economy headed
today announced this morning 1.4 million
jobs last month
bringing the total to over 10.6 million
jobs created
in just four months that's a record by
far
in august we added 249 000 retail jobs
174 000 leisure and hospitality jobs
and 29 000 new manufacturing jobs
the unemployment rate plummeted to 8.4
percent
the second largest single month drop
ever recorded
surpassed only by our big
decline in june last month we saw large
declines in the unemployment rate for
african americans hispanic americans and
asian americans very big declines we're
witnessing the fastest labor market
recovery from any economic crisis in
history
by far by contrast the last
administration had the slowest weakest
and worst recovery in american history
that was
well documented as you know this year
the united states
has seen the smallest economic
contraction of any major western nation
and we are recovering at a much faster
rate than
any other nation business confidence is
higher today in america than
in any other g7 or eu country
that covers a lot of territory so we
have the business confidence is higher
than many in any of those countries
in july retail sales not only recovered
but reached
a new all-time high so think of that
retail sales that's a very
basic statistic and it's a big statistic
it not only recovered but reached the
highest level ever auto sales have
surged to an incredible 74 percent
since their april low and are nearly
back to their
pre-virus levels and that's been a
tremendous thing
used cars and new cars have been both
doing incredibly well mortgage
applications were 27
higher in august then during the same
period last year
homebuilder sentiment reached the
highest level on record indicating that
more
high paying construction jobs are on the
way
home building has been great and lending
has been
really incredible u.s manufacturing
activity reached a 19-month high in
august
while my administration has fought every
day to restore
prosperity however nancy pelosi and the
democrats in congress
are holding additional china virus
relief
hostage to
to reasons that nobody understands i
guess i do i think i understand it's
called politics
and speaking of politics i think north
carolina i think that
michigan and pennsylvania and other
states they should open the governors
the democrat governor should open the
states they'll open them on november 4th
but that should open them now it's very
unfair to the people to have those
shutdowns continuing
at the level that they're continuing
democrats are insisting on a massive
taxpayer
bailout of badly run blue states
stimulus checks for
illegal aliens and the mass release of
inmates from jail
they want to release a lot of inmates
some of them for very serious reasons
they want to release them from jail they
want that par as part of a stimulus
package can you believe it
it's time for the democrats in congress
to start working across the aisle and
put the american people first now
we have 300 billion dollars in a an
account that we didn't use
300 billion and we are
willing to use that i would be willing
to release it subject to congress and
use that as stimulus money
and it would go right to the american
people
so we have 300 billion dollars sitting
in an account
that we didn't need because things are
going so well with the economy
but it would be a very appropriate thing
to release that to the american people
and i am willing to do it all we need is
a sign off
but that doesn't mean that we're going
to release prisoners
some prisoners some very vicious people
actually we're not going to put them on
the streets like the democrats
want us to and we're not going to give
stimulus checks to illegal aliens they
came into the country eagerly and
now we give them a check we want to give
the checks to
the american people so remember we have
300 million it's there we don't need the
money we don't need anything just let
that money
get released to the american people
as our economy rebounds there's only one
thing that could stop the extraordinary
economic comeback and wipe out
the future of american workers and
that's what the democrats want to do
with a four trillion dollar tax hike
implementing things that will be
really bad for our country and this will
uh just absolutely cripple what we're
doing on regulations and so many other
uh elements of success we had the
greatest economy in history prior to the
china virus coming in now they want to
stop regulations they want to
bring up regulations to a level stop the
things that we're doing which are at a
much smaller level and bring up
regulations at a level that nobody's
ever seen before they want to do things
that will
make it impossible for any economy to
grow they want to ban
fracking and as you saw a ban ban
ban and all of a sudden he sees his
polls going down and now he says well i
was only
talking about not maybe banning fracking
but he wants to ban fracking
and it doesn't matter what he wants to
bend the people that control him want to
ban fracking
and whether it's pennsylvania texas
oklahoma
north dakota so many other states you
can't ban fracking that would be a
disaster ohio
want to abolish american energy i mean
that's what's going to happen adopt
disastrous trade deals and inflict a
devastating shutdown
uh as you know he said we want to shut
it down we would be willing to shut it
down
and you don't shut down when we're
setting records and by the way we're
rounding the corner
we're rounding the corner on the virus
joe biden's blanket shut down would
collapse our economy would cause
countless deaths from
suicide drug alcohol abuse heart disease
and more
you know shutdowns cause a lot of
problems
a lot of very serious problems more so
than the virus itself
biden's plan is not a solution it's a
virtual surrender
and our country is doing so well we're
starting to do so well i think we're
going to have a great third quarter i
mean you're going to see for yourself
because the numbers will be announced
sometime prior to the
election on november 3.
and as you know joe spent his entire
career sending american jobs to china
and other far
far away countries for 47 years
people were pillaging our country taking
our jobs taking our companies
and that's never going to change with
that
mindset and with that group
biden is not going to be standing up to
these foreign countries is not going to
be standing up maybe more importantly to
the people that run the democrat party
he doesn't have the strength to do that
he refuses even to condem
antifa a bad group a far-left domestic
terrorist organization he doesn't want
to say anything bad about it
his plan to appease the domestic
terrorists is
the exact opposite of what i'm doing
and i think you saw that last night
yesterday
the u.s marshals we sent them in u.s
marshals
we were waiting for a local government
to
take care of it but they didn't do that
so the u s marshals
one in law enforcement they took down
the antifa member who murdered a man in
the
middle of a street in portland the
suspect was killed
after drawing a weapon when officers
attempted to
take him into custody they wanted to
take him in the u.s marshals
credible people so i want to thank them
for their strength their bravery and i
really do wish that the
mayor of portland and the governor of
oregon would
get going and stop the crime in that
city
be so easy to do well we're focused on
creating good paying jobs the radical
left is focused on
unleashing by really violent mobs and
you see that
whether you're conservative a liberal
republican democrat
or independent we must all agree the
need for peace and order and safety
under my administration law enforcement
is conducting
arrests nationwide of rioters looters
and domestic terrorists the reasons we
didn't put
chicago into our list where we're
holding back funds from
some of these states and cities that are
doing such a poor job
such an incompetent job
a job that nobody can even imagine how
bad
and we're holding it back until they get
their act together and we are
having a lot of people in chicago right
now and you notice that their numbers
are going down rapidly but we have
we've deployed a lot of federal law
enforcement inside of chicago and
they're taking out quite a few people
and they're being arrested they're being
put in jail and that's why you see those
numbers going down that's why you see
that
with respect to the mayor we did not
haul back funds
in chicago but new york is experiencing
a tremendous crime wave
in some cases up over 300 percent
and they have to do something quickly we
just spoke to mayor bowser and she's
willing to do whatever is necessary
and we have very good talk with her
that's in dc
and uh the other places they speak for
themselves
we're working with the state and local
authorities to comb through
hours of videotape identify and arrest
suspects and prosecute lawbreakers we've
already got over 300 in jail
and we have tremendous evidence and i
want to thank the
media for helping us out because they're
taking
different angles we have it from every
different angle you can't probably have
any better than what we've got
we see it from the sky and the ground
and
from the right and from the left so when
they say they didn't do it we say well
what's this so we get that from the
media free of charge under
operation legend we've surged federal
law enforcement to cities plagued by
violent crime
the initiative has already resulted in
tremendous success
and nationwide we have over 2 thousand
arrests
and we don't talk about it too much but
now we might as well
so we've arrested over two thousand
criminals the criminals and in a single
month murder rate in chicago as you know
and as i said it was cut in half
actually so on the china virus front
the nations of europe have experienced a
38
greater excess mortality than
the united states 38 percent more
greater
excess mortality than the united states
a lot of you don't want to report that
and if we took new york out of the
equation there's nobody even close the
job we've done is incredible and
we don't get any credit for it but we've
done an incredible job
through operation warp speed we have
three vaccines in the final
stage of clinical trials yesterday
pfizer announced i just spoke to the
head of pfizer
great guy they announced that it expects
to have the results of its
trial very very shortly next month
but very shortly we remain on track to
deliver a vaccine before the end of the
year and maybe even before
november 1st we think we can probably
have it sometime
during the month of october and pfizer
is
among the leaders as you know and it's a
great company
johnson and johnson also doing very well
moderna we have some really great
companies they're all doing very well
they're all in
final stages and i think you're going to
see results that
are shockingly good finally i want to
provide you with a brief update of the
virus cases in the united states have
declined 28
nationwide over the last month and
hospitalizations and deaths have
continued to decline over the past week
very substantially declined
thanks to america's medical genius the
mortality rate has been reduced by
85 in april
mortality rate reduced by 85 percent
hospital lengths of stay are one-third
of their average length
in april so the hospitalization is down
the length of stay is way down
in order to keep making progress against
the virus
we ask all americans to remain vigilant
especially over labor's
labor day you know you have the labor
day weekend
coming upon us immediately i guess we
can say pretty immediately
and we need everybody to be careful to
apply common sense and
do all of the things that we've told you
to do
as quickly as much as you can
social distancing wearing a mask when
ever the distancing is not
possible and staying like
staying with a group that you know let's
just try and get through this
one weekend and i think we have a chance
of doing that just
social distance wash your hands all of
the hygiene things that we speak about
and we're really rounding the turn and
the vaccines are coming
the therapeutics have already come but
they continue to come
the convalescent plasma has had a
tremendous
impact already you see what's happening
there and remdessevier has been
incredible so we have a lot of things
happening we have a lot of
therapeutics coming out i think from the
standpoint of common sense
i guess therapeutics to me right now
you're going to a hospital you give
somebody a shot or
or transfusion it might be a transfusion
uh probably more than 50 percent are
actually transfusions and
they'll leave the hospital shortly
thereafter i mean to me that's
more important in a certain sense in the
vaccine but the vaccines will be
great over the long term the
therapeutics over the short term and
also knowing you have the therapeutics i
think is great
from the standpoint of mind from the
standpoint of the mind
that's great so i want to thank
everybody for being here i'm going to
ask
larry kudlow to give a couple of
examples of how
strong our economy is
recovering how strongly it's recovering
and
it's setting records at every level and
we're doing better than
every other country and we're very proud
of all of the people for
doing such an incredible job this is a v
it's a super v
again we have 300 billion dollars ready
to go all congress has to do is say use
it if they say use it
i'd like to use it without their
permission but i guess i'm not allowed
to do that i did ask that question
so congress has to just say use it all
they have to do is say use it 300
billion dollars gets
immediately put into our system
and will really help the american people
there's nothing else to do just a very
quick statement
so i'm going to ask larry to come up i
want to thank
another man for being here today there's
a man that's a
incredible leader lou holtz i've known
him for a long time he's been a friend
of mine and i think i've received
letters from every football coach
almost in the nation and that's a little
exaggeration but
some some of the greats nick saban wrote
a letter
coach o and coacho is central casting i
said we're gonna have to put him in a
movie right as a football coach
he'd really be good playing a football
coach like you
and urban meyer wrote a beautiful letter
and so many of
the other great legendary coaches not
only coaches though
people in sports and people in life and
even
great political people recommending lou
for the
presidential medal of freedom and we've
analyzed it very closely we've looked at
all of those recommendations we've
looked at lou's life and his career and
what he's done for charity and
the football is obvious he was a great
coach but what he's done
beyond even coaching so lou will be
getting the presidential
medal of freedom and the date is being
picked it won't be in the
too distant future lou was married to a
great woman right lou
great woman and she just passed away a
few months ago
is an incredible woman she was stronger
i knew her
i knew her well she was stronger than
lou i think she was stronger than you
i hate to tell you you're strong too but
she was special right
so i just want to congratulate coach
luhls on soon to receive the
presidential medal
of freedom and we look forward to that
lou thank you very much and you can stay
around and listen to larry for a couple
of seconds or
go to your friend you probably know half
of the people in the room
i'll bet they treat you better than they
treat me they treat him good
i wish you'd treat me that way uh larry
come on up
all right thanks sir appreciate it again
coach many congrats
many many congrats um just to underscore
uh the president's assessment of the
economy
very strong jobs report today 8.4
unemployment rate 1.4 million
payrolls increase but i want to add 3.8
million
3.8 million increase in the important
household survey
which aims at small businesses
particularly and from which the
unemployment is calculated
in the past four months we've generated
a 10.6 million
increase in payrolls and a 14 million
increase in households so we've restored
basically half of the jobs that were
lost
in the pandemic contraction today's
report also
included the lower wage industries and
minority groups across the board
the diffusion index was a whopping 69
percent
so these gains are very very uh
broad-based
there's still too many people out there
still too much hardship still too many
unemployed
and we're working on that and we're
moving in the right direction
and that's why today's numbers are
encouraging and optimistic
now other areas that the president
mentioned just to underscore
we are in a housing boom there can be no
disagreement about that
sales mortgage applications prices home
starts
up 23 annually in july we're in a car
boom automobile boom
we've gone from 8.7 million in sales
to 15.2 million in sales in the recent
four months
that's a big jump as president mentioned
the leading indicator of that is used
car sales and prices
the manufacturing indexes are very
strong this
recovery includes manufacturing the isms
running in the high 50s the new order
indexes at 68
production index is 63. we had a
manufacturing report for
durables core durables
over the past three months orders of 35
shipments up 35 so these are very strong
numbers
new business applications from twenty
five thousand to sixty six thousand it's
a hundred and sixty percent gain
through august and as the president
referred consumer spending is booming
we're up eighty four percent annually
over the past three months
my view of course we are in a v-shaped
recovery
it is a self-sustaining recovery high
demand
increased production and manufacturing
along with
decline in inventories will give us a
tremendous
momentum going into the second half of
the year
i still reckon that the third quarter
will be at least 20 percent growth
the atlanta fed's gdp now index is
close to 30 percent i think 20
is a good number i think the whole
second half and next year
provided that economic policies remain
uh pro
growth and i just want to mention one
thing on the policy front
i simply don't understand the other side
wanting a four trillion dollar
tax increase after a deep pandemic
contraction and on this point
i believe vast majority of economists i
don't care if you're a keynesian
demand cider supply cider you just don't
raise
taxes by this amount or by any amount
really but four trillion
really picking the pockets of taxpayers
who are returning to work now
and need all the resources they can get
you just don't do it
the profession should be have a complete
consensus
on that and so i'm quite surprised and i
think that is a potential obstacle
and people are beginning to speak about
that but all i can say is
factually the numbers are coming in very
positively
there's a lot of optimism going on more
work to be done
but um we're rolling in the right
direction thank you appreciate it
okay thank you president trump
if i could first ask you a clarifying
question about the 300 billion
yeah i you've ruled out doing that
unilaterally you're going to wait for
congress to repurpose it
for stimulus checks yeah what about it
oh is that correct you're you're waiting
for nice
there's a theory that i can do it uh
without the approval
but i'd rather get the approval so that
we have it
but there's a theory i could take the
300 billion it's money that we have
money that we've built up and money that
we haven't spent and i
would love to give it to the american
people as a very powerful stimulus so
yeah i think there is a theory that i
could do it
without having to go back but i think it
would be appropriate to go back and
i would ask congress to approve it it's
a very simple approval
it's uh literally it's a one sentence
approval
and the democrats should do that the
republicans will do that
they'd be glad to do that so we'll see
whether or not they do it
okay please lean back uh yes um mr
president
our editor-in-chief john solomon had an
exclusive interview with the head of the
delaware fraternal order police chapter
um he said that they were going to
endorse you instead of their native son
joe biden i like your response as well
as the national organization of the
fraternal order of police
is endorsing you as well well i'm
honored that delaware because i don't
see biden anywhere but delaware he's
and i like delaware too but to have the
law enforcement in delaware give their
endorsement to me is uh
really a great honor it's really it just
shows you how
how pathetic the democrats are when it
comes to
crime when it comes to law and order so
would you please extend my
very great thanks it's a great honor to
get it from
delaware law enforcement we've gotten it
from
almost all law enforcement but uh that's
that's because every time i see biden
speak it says delaware delaware delaware
he never leaves
i'm all over the country i'm all over
the place uh
yeah go ahead did you have yeah go ahead
thanks mr president
um germany has said that alexei navalny
the russian opposition leader was
poisoned
what do you think should be done to
russia about that what is your message
to russia about that
and how should the international
community and the united states respond
well i think we have to look at it very
seriously if it's the case
and i think we will there's nobody been
tougher in russia than i
have we get along i get along with
almost all countries i get along with
north korea remember we're supposed to
be going to war with
north korea if hillary got elected you'd
be at war right now with north korea
that would be a very messy war very bad
war many millions of people would be
killed
in the meantime we've gotten along with
them we didn't get to war everyone said
that if i was elected i'd be at war in
one week it's been just the opposite
uh we're doing very well in afghanistan
bringing the troops down
very low level and other things are
happening very interestingly we have
a great peace deal going on in the
middle east actually with uae and
israel and that's been received like
probably
very few things that many people have
done it's been very well received
and we'll be having other countries
announcing soon they're joining that
and you're gonna have a lot of countries
and then a lot of countries are saying
hey why didn't you
bring us in right from the beginning
they would have loved to have been there
but they want to
they want to be in so we're doing a lot
of things i think that
i was the one that alerted
the united states and the world
nordstrom 2.
i said why is germany spending billions
and billions of dollars to russia
to get their energy from russia and then
we're supposed to protect germany from
russia what's that all about
and the sanctions and everything else at
the same time with russia we're right
now
negotiating a nuclear non-proliferation
treaty which is very important
it's a very important thing to me it's
the most important thing
some people say global warming i don't i
say this is
far more important and we are the
biggest they are the second biggest
nuclear-wise china's third
they're actually a distant third but
they're building pretty rapidly
and at some point we'll include china
into those talks but we're doing very
well with russia on nuclear
non-proliferation
so i don't know exactly what happened i
think it's
it's tragic it's terrible it shouldn't
happen uh we haven't
had any proof yet but i i will take a
look
uh it is interesting that everybody's
always mentioning russia
and i don't mind you mentioning russia
but i think probably china at this point
is
is a nation that you should be talking
about much more so than russia because
the things that
china's doing are far worse
if you take a look at what's happening
with the world
look at what happened with the china
virus look at what they did by not
keeping that within the confines of
china they should have kept it in
the confines of china look what they've
done to 188 countries all over the world
but you never ask about china always
asking about russia so
i would be very angry if that's the case
and we'll take a look at the
uh at the numbers and the documents
because we're going to be sent
a lot of documents over the next few
days
uh mr president mr president please
we're back
thank you mr president bring the
conventions
uh thank you during the conventions
kimberly and don julia
had a outreach to the indian americans
community with a video called
four more years for you which has gone
viral among indian americans
the battleground states so my question
is would kimberly don junior and ivanka
trump who are very popular non-indian
americans
would be campaigning on your behalf
among the indian americans with your
views on india u.s relationship
well i didn't understand everything you
said i know india and i understood
those young people that you mentioned
they're very good young people
and i know their relationship to india
is very good and so is mine and
prime minister modi is a friend of mine
and he's doing a very good job nothing
easy
nothing easy but he's doing a very good
job
we're talking i mean while we're at it
we're talking about china and india
we're pretty going at it pretty good on
the border as you know
it's been very nasty it's been a very
nasty situation and
we stand ready to help with respect to
china and india if we can do anything we
would
love to get involved and help and
we are talking to both countries about
that
but i appreciate your nice sentiments
they think a lot of india and so do i
and i think a lot of
your prime minister thank you so my
question was about indian americans
do you think they are voting for you are
you are they supporting you
i do we had a uh an event in
houston as you know and it was a
fantastic event i was invited by
prime minister modi and this was a
massive this was at the
where they play football the houston
football team
and it was uh it was it was incredible
it was actually incredible and
the prime minister could not have been
more generous we have
great support from india we have great
support from
prime minister modi and i would think
that the
people uh indian people would be voting
for
trump i also as you know went to india
just prior to the pandemic setting in
because india's been hit very hard
left really about a week before that
and we had an incredible time what what
we saw the people are
so incredible it's really an incredible
place an incredible country
and it's definitely big it's definitely
big but you've got a great leader and
he's
he's a great uh great person thank you
do you think
china is bullying india
i hope not i hope not but they're
certainly going at it
they're going at it much more strongly
than a lot of people even understand
yeah please go ahead
go ahead please thank you sir just to
follow up on alex i know
you just said we you haven't had any
proof yet do you have any reasons to
doubt
the results from john no i don't i mean
i don't i i hear germany
uh has made a was it definitive or
almost definitive but we have not seen
it ourselves no
but we have not seen it ourselves but i
would certainly be
okay with that they want to do something
they want to take action
shouldn't happen shouldn't happen but
again
we are working very closely with a lot
of countries and a lot of different
things
we've taken stronger action against
russia than any other country in the
world
as you know i'll tell you president
putin would tell you that
right now but the fact that i the fact
that i get along with
russia and that i get along frankly with
everybody right now
i'm not getting along with china but
that's my choice i don't like what
happened with respect to the pandemic
with respect to the china virus i don't
like it at all
what they've done to this world and this
country and europe and every place else
is
terrible but i do get along with uh
with president putin
but i've been tougher on russia than
anybody else by far if you look at
the obama administration they were weak
look at the land they gave up look at
what happened with respect to
look at what happened with respect to
ukraine such a big part of ukraine given
up during the obama
administration and i don't think they
would have done that with me
i don't think they would have done that
with me at all
we gave tank busters and they gave
pillows did you ever hear that
expression
they sent pillows and we sent tank
busters
to ukraine so uh
but with that being said if we can do a
nuclear non-proliferation agreement that
would be a great thing no but i would
not be uh
at all happy if that were the case and
it looks like it might very well be the
case i mean based on what germany
based on what germany is saying that
seems to be the case john
mr president i want to ask you about
something you said a while back that's
been talked about many many times
um back in 2015 you said that you didn't
think john mccain
was a hero that you prefer people who
don't get captured
uh in light of all that's happened since
then
and all you've learned do you regret
saying that is that something you wish
you had not said i say what i say and
i never got along with john mccain i
disagreed with john mccain you know that
better than anybody frankly
i wasn't a fan i disagreed with
many of his views i disagreed with his
views on these ridiculous endless wars i
disagreed with the way he
handled the vets the va the va is
running much better now and we
did with the mission act and the
accountability and all the things we've
done for the va he was not able to do
that but i disagreed with john mccain on
a lot of things that doesn't mean i
don't respect him i respected him
but i really disagreed with him on a lot
of things and i think i was right i
think time has proven me right
to a large extent
thank you mr president um earlier in the
statement that you've read before
questions you spoke about how you
believe that we're
as you put it rounding the corner on the
corona virus
yesterday as well and i think everybody
would love to see the pandemic come to
an end there's no doubt about that
but i wanted to ask you about a forecast
that has come out from the ihme
at the university of washington and they
are forecasting by january the 1st
of next year that will have 410
000 american deaths from coronavirus
which is
225 000 from where we are right now
so can you explain how you see us
rounding the corner based upon that
projection
if i didn't close up our country if i
didn't stop
china highly infected from coming in i
didn't stop europe from coming in
far sooner than anybody else including
dr fauci and
others wanted to and dr fauci was very
nice he said
president trump made a great decision we
would have far
more than that but maybe even more
importantly if i didn't close up we
would have instead of the number that
you mentioned or whatever it may be it
were
about 180 we would have
perhaps one and a half or two million
deaths right now
if i went a different direction which
some people wanted me to do
and i decided not to do it we'd have two
million deaths
now a lot of countries don't report
their deaths obviously china's not
reporting because they had
far more than we did china had far more
deaths than we did in my opinion just my
opinion
but they don't report their deaths or
they don't report them accurately and i
could
i don't want to embarrass other
countries but i can tell you there are
other countries where the death
toll is far higher than the united
states but they don't report that so we
report it
to a level that nobody reports it we
also do testing in cases i i watch your
broadcasts and your i read your
information your
media outlets very very carefully and i
look at
the word cases and the reason you know
it's i say it a hundred times nobody
wants to
pick it up but we do testing at a level
that nobody ever dreamed possible we
have the best tests that we have by far
the most test
actually india as per your question
before
india is number two and they've done a
good job but they're
about 40 million tests behind us
and they're a country of 1.5 billion
people
now because of all these tests we have
far more cases
if we cut our cases in half if we if we
cut our testing in half
we'd probably have about half the number
of cases if we cut it down to levels
there are some countries that
don't test they test when somebody walks
into a hospital that's the test you get
they walk into a hospital they're sick
that's your test uh we have tested more
and and better and you just see where we
now have uh
millions of tests coming in from a
certain company that's done a fantastic
job and it's going to be anywhere from 5
minutes to 15 minutes on the spot very
accurate test
but if we had much less testing no
testing we would have
you wouldn't be reporting cases but you
saw this i don't want to go over the
statistics you all wrote it down but you
see how we're doing compared to the rest
of the world and you see and if you took
out new york which has been a tragic
situation
with the amount of people that died in
the u.s you can't actually take out a
major state in the us it's still a part
of the united states new york is
no i'm just taking it to the point i'm
just saying
new york has been in particular
run whether it's badly incompetently
whether it's unfortunate and i
appreciated
governor cuomo saying that i've done a
phenomenal job
and he said very good things said bad
things too you know
later on when he had no real other
choice but
if you took out new york from those
numbers you can multiply our
tremendous success by by a lot but look
the bottom line
is that the job we've done
on kovid 19 or the china virus
china plague call it whatever you want a
lot of different names
but it's been incredible we've also
helped a lot of other countries
especially with ventilators
because we are now you know we build
ventilators a level that nobody ever
thought possible
so uh forecast being accurate
the one that i cited for you yeah but
you didn't hear me if we didn't do what
i said
we would be at 2 million deaths right
now taking that into account it's just
going forward no they're not taking that
into account
i had a choice to make if we made the
wrong choice
the number that you have which is less
than other countries but the other
countries don't report deaths
they don't report them to the extent and
they're not accurate you know that and
so do i
because we have you take a look at some
of the things happening in certain other
very large countries
first of all we're a very large country
but you take a look at
things happening with respect to the
reporting of deaths in other countries
and i say
give me a break so it's been amazing but
we made some moves at the beginning
china
big europe big but the biggest of all
was
closing it down understanding the
disease and we did and now we know it's
the elderly it's
especially elderly if they have heart
diabetes if they have problems
and we're watching it and we're watching
it very closely and by the way we're
doing super testing
with respect to that super testing uh
but if we did it a different way instead
of the number that you said but the
basically the number that we're at now
is approximately 180 000
we'd be at 2 million people right now
could be higher than that
about the regular thing the russian mr
president
i don't know anything about the russian
vaccine i'm not sure we have our vaccine
and our vaccine is uh i think it's going
to be the standard it's going to be
great these companies are incredible
they've come up with the great vaccines
over the years and
that's the vaccine that uh probably most
of the people in this room are going to
want to take right
thanks mr president a quick
clarification of my question
the 300 billion dollars is that from the
main street lending program or is that
from a different party where are you
it's sitting in an account
uh has not been spent but we're willing
to spend it no we're willing to spend it
i'd like to get approval from congress
there's a theory that i don't have to do
that but i'd rather be upfront and i'd
like to get
approval from congress let it go
directly to the people it would be a
great stimulus
it's actually more stimulus than we're
asking for in terms of pure stimulus
this would be pure stimulus
i wouldn't have to let prisoners go some
very
evil prisoners go like think of it
the democrats in order to get what they
want and in order to give us what we
they're talking about allowing prisoners
to be
released prisoners that we don't want to
be released
so in order to that that we get money to
the american people
they want to say release prisoners and
and other things like that that are very
bad
and we just can't do that we don't want
to do that and then just to follow on
john's question i know you spoke earlier
about the atlantic story and you've
referenced the number of administration
officials who have come out
to support here we have 11 people i was
just told i was just
we have 11 people there is nobody that
feels
more strongly about our soldiers our
wounded warriors
are soldiers that died in war than i do
it's a hoax just like the fake dossier
was a hoax
just like the russia russia russia was a
hoax it was a total hoax
no collusion just like so many other
things
it's a hoax and you'll hear more of
these things
totally unrelated as we get closer and
closer to election
the magazine is a failing magazine and
nobody called me nobody called me from
the magazine said you have a comment
about it no they just write whatever
they want to write
because they figure you can't get sued
you can get sued but it's very
it's a very hard bringing lawsuits but
we have many witnesses
and it's a total it's a total
it's just a continuation of the witch
hunt
so that it can hopefully affect the
election
but the american people are too smart so
whether it's the fake dossier that
turned out to be a total fraud
or so many other things so many other
things have turned out
i've been under investigation from
before i even got elected
these people have gone after me more
than any president in the united states
in history
in the history of the united states and
it's a shame
it's a shame and despite that we've done
more in the first three and a half years
than any administration there's been no
administration that's done more when you
add it all up there's been no
despite all of the horrible political
games that have been played
but there's nobody that's been
that's been able to do what i've done
and that includes the great mission act
because what obama passed was a joke
it was a joke and we took it to a level
that nobody thought possible
and that includes accountability so
it's a disgrace that somebody's allowed
to
write things like that it could have
been you know a lot of times the sources
aren't sources that don't exist and
sometimes the sources are just
people that are disgruntled former
so-called employees
my question is sort of about that i mean
the notable voice that's been missing
from the denials
is your former chief of staff john kelly
who was obviously
intimately involved in this what how are
we supposed to read the fact
i know john kelly he was with me didn't
do a good job had no temperament
and ultimately he was petered out he got
he was exhausted
this man was totally exhausted he wasn't
even able to function in the last number
of months he was not able to function
he was sort of a tough guy by the time
he got
eaten up in this world it's a different
world than he was used to
he was unable to function and i told him
john you're going to have to go
please give me a letter of resignation
and we did that
and now he goes out and badmouths now
there are people that are
jealous there are people that are upset
that they're not here anymore
there are people we've done an
incredible job the virus came in and now
we're doing an incredible job again
we're going to build it up bigger than
it was before the virus came in
but i don't know that it was him i
haven't seen that i mean i see anonymous
but it could have been a guy like a john
kelly
because he was because just so you
understand
he was a very
you look at some of his news conferences
what happened to him he got eaten alive
he was unable to handle the pressure of
this job this job
was a tough job mark meadows doing a
great job
but kelly was unable to do that and as
far as that day
i mean we have so much proof
as to going to the we i went to
paris and the environs and i was all set
to go
they had a rainstorm the likes of which
you've rarely seen the fog was so great
it was it was as dense as i've ever seen
and i almost
knew that you couldn't use the
helicopter and because they had to drive
through i guess certain parts of paris
uh the secret service who by the way we
have people
here that were on the trip they're
writing a report
unable to even think about it and i said
nope i want to go
i insist on going it would have taken us
forever
the paris police said please you can't
do this they'd have to shut down
various parts of paris and it just was
not a possible situation
the helicopter would have been very
quick they had the helicopter all set
but the helicopter could never fly in
that kind of weather
so and that turned out and that's all
documented by the way
we have all of the information from and
probably will release that information
but i think it's a shame when a second
rate magazine i don't read it i know
very little about this magazine but
when a second-rate magazine can write
things like that about somebody that's
done
much so much for the military can write
things like that
and get away with it when you actually
ask questions on it
it's a disgrace and you ought to be
ashamed of yourself and let me just tell
you
uh i watched the interview with sleepy
joe biden
and he didn't ask questions you didn't
ask questions like that
read the questions yes they were like
meant for a child
those questions were meant for a child
smiles on faces of reporters
not like you and you there were smiles
on
the report what do you think take a look
at those questions that they asked him
they were not meant for a grown-up they
were meant for a child
so i just want to just tell you i just
want to tell you
it's a disgrace because you look at what
i've done for the united states military
i love those people i've gotten them pay
raises when they didn't get
anything near what i've been able to do
and i've rebuilt
2.5 trillion dollars i've rebuilt the
united states military now we're
including space force
nobody's done more for them and then
when i have to have
a report read like that from a
third-rate magazine that's not going to
be in business much longer i look at
that
and i think it's a disgrace and then
when i watch
biden getting asked
questions that it really meant for a
child
to answer anybody could answer and i
look at the level
of question that you people ask i mean
honestly it's disgraceful
so i want to thank you all very much we
appreciate it
and we're doing very well we're very
very proud of what's happened with
respect to the economy and i think that
before the election you're going to see
a third quarter announced
the third quarter will be at a level
that our country has never seen before
next year we're going to have a year
that was better
than last year and i feel very certain
it'll be better than last year it'll be
the greatest year we've had
and the whole reason this is working out
this way is because we set a foundation
for this country like we've never had
before
so next year is going to be a fantastic
year but remember this the third quarter
is going to be announced sometime prior
to the election
by a few days actually and i think it's
going to be record setting type
numbers on gdp and other things thank
you all very much
