REMARKS
Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
Issued on: July 27, 2020
South Lawn
1:42 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. The stock market is doing very well. The economy is doing very well. I think were going to have some tremendous numbers over the next number of months. A lot of things are happening.
I just had a meeting on vaccines and therapeutics, and it was a great meeting. We had a lot of our wonderful doctors and researchers with me. I think the meeting went really well. Were doing well on vaccines. Were doing well on therapeutics. And now Im heading to North Carolina to look exactly at that.
Q Have you seen Robert OBrien lately?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I havent seen him lately. I heard he
Q Is he okay?
THE PRESIDENT: he tested. Yeah. I have not seen him. Im calling him later.
Q When did he first test positive? When did he first test positive?
THE PRESIDENT: I dont know. I dont know.
Q Mr. President, do you plan on paying your respects to Congressman Lewis either today or tomorrow on the Capitol?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I wont be going. No.
Q Mr. President, three years ago, you tweeted about (inaudible).
THE PRESIDENT: I cant hear you. Go ahead.
Q Three years ago, you tweeted out a ban on transgender people in the military. Would you reconsider that?
THE PRESIDENT: I cant hear a word youre saying.
Q Mr. President, on the executive order the executive order that you signed on Friday, lowering prescription drug prices, why did you wait until three and a half years into your presidency to sign those executive orders?
THE PRESIDENT: We have a great thing happening with lowering of the drug prices. The drug prices in our country will be coming down very substantially. I was given that right because of the DACA decision. The DACA decision allowed me to do things that some people thought the President didnt have the right to do. I was given that right. Drug prices will be coming down very, very substantially. No other President has been allowed to do that. No other President has been able to do that. No President has ever done what Ive done for prescription drug prices and, by the way, for many other things too.
Thank you.
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1:45 P.M. EDT