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Trump's Remarks Before Marine One Departure; July 31, 2020
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Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
Issued on: July 31, 2020
South Lawn
1:51 P.M. EDT
Q Mr. President, your reaction to President Obama? President Obama
Q He said youre targeting minorities.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, go ahead, please. Go ahead.
Q Your reaction to President Obama, sir? Your reaction to President Obama? He said that youre targeting minorities and attacking voting rights.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, he did a bad job for minorities. I did much more for minorities than he did. And if you look at our numbers prior to the plague coming in and those numbers will soon be back youll see I did a much better job than Obama did, by far, for African Americans, for Asian Americans, for women, for any group you look at. Far better than Obama did.
Yeah, go ahead.
Q Mr. President, why werent you at John Lewiss funeral?
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, go ahead, please.
Q Mr. President, what do you say to legal immigrants who are (inaudible)?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we dont want that to happen.
Q And so far
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, we dont want that to happen.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: But people have to come into our country legally. Right now, we have 267 miles of wall. Were doing very well on keeping the drugs out and keeping people out that arent supposed to be here. But people have to come into our country legally.
Q Im talking about legal immigrants.
THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead.
Q What about people who are here legally? You are (inaudible) these immigrants.
THE PRESIDENT: Were taking a look at it very strongly. Were working with representatives of DACA and were also working on a big immigration bill which is merit-based and something that people are going to be very happy with. Were doing a very big immigration bill and were doing a very big healthcare bill.
The other thing were working on very strongly, and its very important, is prescription drug prices. The drug companies are not exactly happy. In fact, I assume theyll be taking ads. But were doing a drug prescription bill, in a sense weve already signed it, for the most part; one goes into effect very soon thats going to get us to be tied with or lower than the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world.
Right now, the United States, because of what has happened over years, we have the highest prescription drug prices in the world. We will soon have the lowest.
Go ahead, Jennifer.
Q Are you expecting a TikTok decision today?
THE PRESIDENT: Were looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things. There are a couple of options. But a lot of things are happening, so well see what happens. But we are looking at a lot alternatives with respect to TikTok.
Q Mr. President, comments about the delay on the election in Hong Kong? What is your opinion about
THE PRESIDENT: About what?
Q The delay on the election in Hong Kong.
THE PRESIDENT: Were going to have a report for you tomorrow on that.
Q But what is your
Q On the suburban lifestyle dream, why would low-income housing in the suburbs destroy the suburban lifestyle dream?
THE PRESIDENT: So we ended a rule that was a very horrible rule for people in suburbia in the suburbs. And that rule has been a very unfair rule for a long time and it was going to be made a lot worse by Biden and Cory Booker.
Its a rule that, basically, you build low-income housing and you build other forms of housing also having to do with zoning and destroy people that have lived in communities in suburbia. For years, theyve lived there, and they want to destroy their lives and destroy what they have. And its been going on for a long time. I ended the rule, so people living in the suburbs will no longer have that problem.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Q Are you worried that Herman Cain caught COVID in Tulsa?
THE PRESIDENT: Herman Cain was a great man. He did a fantastic job. He was respected by everybody. He was loved by everybody. And we will miss Herman Cain.
Q Are you worried he caught it in Tulsa?
THE PRESIDENT: Who?
Q Are you worried he caught COVID in Tulsa?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I dont think he did. No.
Thank you.
END
1:56 P.M. EDT
Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
Issued on: July 31, 2020
South Lawn
1:51 P.M. EDT
Q Mr. President, your reaction to President Obama? President Obama
Q He said youre targeting minorities.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, go ahead, please. Go ahead.
Q Your reaction to President Obama, sir? Your reaction to President Obama? He said that youre targeting minorities and attacking voting rights.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, he did a bad job for minorities. I did much more for minorities than he did. And if you look at our numbers prior to the plague coming in and those numbers will soon be back youll see I did a much better job than Obama did, by far, for African Americans, for Asian Americans, for women, for any group you look at. Far better than Obama did.
Yeah, go ahead.
Q Mr. President, why werent you at John Lewiss funeral?
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, go ahead, please.
Q Mr. President, what do you say to legal immigrants who are (inaudible)?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we dont want that to happen.
Q And so far
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, we dont want that to happen.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: But people have to come into our country legally. Right now, we have 267 miles of wall. Were doing very well on keeping the drugs out and keeping people out that arent supposed to be here. But people have to come into our country legally.
Q Im talking about legal immigrants.
THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead.
Q What about people who are here legally? You are (inaudible) these immigrants.
THE PRESIDENT: Were taking a look at it very strongly. Were working with representatives of DACA and were also working on a big immigration bill which is merit-based and something that people are going to be very happy with. Were doing a very big immigration bill and were doing a very big healthcare bill.
The other thing were working on very strongly, and its very important, is prescription drug prices. The drug companies are not exactly happy. In fact, I assume theyll be taking ads. But were doing a drug prescription bill, in a sense weve already signed it, for the most part; one goes into effect very soon thats going to get us to be tied with or lower than the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world.
Right now, the United States, because of what has happened over years, we have the highest prescription drug prices in the world. We will soon have the lowest.
Go ahead, Jennifer.
Q Are you expecting a TikTok decision today?
THE PRESIDENT: Were looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things. There are a couple of options. But a lot of things are happening, so well see what happens. But we are looking at a lot alternatives with respect to TikTok.
Q Mr. President, comments about the delay on the election in Hong Kong? What is your opinion about
THE PRESIDENT: About what?
Q The delay on the election in Hong Kong.
THE PRESIDENT: Were going to have a report for you tomorrow on that.
Q But what is your
Q On the suburban lifestyle dream, why would low-income housing in the suburbs destroy the suburban lifestyle dream?
THE PRESIDENT: So we ended a rule that was a very horrible rule for people in suburbia in the suburbs. And that rule has been a very unfair rule for a long time and it was going to be made a lot worse by Biden and Cory Booker.
Its a rule that, basically, you build low-income housing and you build other forms of housing also having to do with zoning and destroy people that have lived in communities in suburbia. For years, theyve lived there, and they want to destroy their lives and destroy what they have. And its been going on for a long time. I ended the rule, so people living in the suburbs will no longer have that problem.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Q Are you worried that Herman Cain caught COVID in Tulsa?
THE PRESIDENT: Herman Cain was a great man. He did a fantastic job. He was respected by everybody. He was loved by everybody. And we will miss Herman Cain.
Q Are you worried he caught it in Tulsa?
THE PRESIDENT: Who?
Q Are you worried he caught COVID in Tulsa?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I dont think he did. No.
Thank you.
END
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Trump's Remarks Before Marine One Departure; July 31, 2020 (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2020
OP
Ferrets are Cool
(21,117 posts)1. Banning Tik Tok?? Who does he think he is, the KING?
Oh yeah, I forgot for a moment. He does think he is the KING.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)2. If he talks, he lies. How hard is it for the Media to recognize this?