President Trump is holding a press conference right now.
Economy Update:
Talking about job growth over the past 3 months
623,000 new manufacturing jobs - the "magic wand" worked!
639,000 new construction jobs
He's still trying to work with Congress on another covid-relief bill. Trump wants to:
Defer payroll tax until the end of the year, retroactive from July 1. May extend it end of year.
Enhance unemployment benefits through end of year.
Defer student loan payments & interest
Extend eviction moratorium
He spoke with Lebanon's President and is sending medical supplies, food, water, emergency equipment, Doctors, Nurses, etc over there.
Conference call Sunday w/ French President Macron & others who also want to help.
Trump brought up meeting w IT Workers from the Tennessee Valley Authority & how the head person there gets paid highest salary in government ($8 Million/year). Said he's going to do something about it, incl possible termination for firing US employees to hire foreign workers.
He fired the Chairman of the Board and one other Board member already. He's going to continue firing board members if they don't stop importing low paid foreign workers.
Oh, Trump just said the TVA changed course and canceled all the layoffs of their US citizen workers!
GO @realDonaldTrump!!!
Now he's talking about COVID, how several states are improving, such as Florida, Texas, and Arizona.
NJ & NY are stable.
LMAOOOO!
There's "plahhhhsma" again. 😂😂😂😂
POTUS pronounces "plasma" as "plahsma."
Now talking about trying to lower drug prices and the ads that #BigPharma is running against him.
Also talking about US Citizens subsidize prescription drug costs for the rest of the world...same meds that most US Citizens cannot afford.
He signed an executive order that targets drug middlemen who make billions in drug discounts instead of passing those discounts to patients.
Still fighting the #OpioidCrisis, still building the wall, now bringing up the disaster of Portland.
Talking about how many Democrats want to defund the police, talking about Chicago and New York crime.
Trump says to the silent majority:
"We will save the United States of America"
Now he's taking media questions.
Media brings up ....what else? RUSSIA yet AGAIN.
These people are insufferable!
Hahhahaha..the journo asked Trump about Russia and China interfering in our elections. Trump called him out for not also mentioning that Iran's doing the same thing.
China, Russia, and Iran would rather make a deal with Biden than Trump. Ya think?
Biden already said he's bring back the #IranDeal, so there's that.
We know the CCP/China is rabidly pissed at Trump.
Russia cannot STAND how the US has become energy independent.
The room just booed but dang, I didn't hear the question the reported asked! Whomever's in the room clapped after Trump said the news was fake. (got distracted & missed some of it, sorry).
Ooops, he's done now and just left the podium.
I wonder if President Trump is going to make these little press conference updates a habit going into the election. He should, so he can debate with media while Biden hides in his basement.
Here's the stream of the entire press conference in case anyone that missed it wants to watch:
Here’s the part I missed where there were boos for media, then cheers after Trump’s reply.
H/t @TinaRevers for linking me up!
https://t.co/dVwiyCaJN4
Here's a clip on his comments about the TVA:
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