Thread by @W7VOA

In Granite City, #Illinois, @POTUS says "we're here today to celebrate a great victory...pouring new American steel into the spine of our country.

"U.S. Steel is back," declares @POTUS.

Now @IvankaTrump on stage: "This president and this administration is fighting for each and every one of you."

"I don't know what they are but I think they're going to be terrific," says @POTUS of tomorrow's GDP number.

Another reference by @POTUS to "the fake news back there. ... They're dying to see us to make a little bit of a mistake."

"I could be one of you," @POTUS tells steelworkers. "It could be me. And I'd be happy if I was."

"We're having the best economy we've ever had in the history of our country," declares @POTUS. "This is the time to straighten out the worst trade deals ever made by any country" in history.

"This is a special industry to me. This is steel. And we're watching this one closely. It's going up," says @POTUS at Granite City Mill.

"We're sending a message to our foreign competitors: The days of plundering American jobs and wealth -- those days are over."

"We'll be able to compete and win against any country, that I know."

"Thanks to our tariffs, idle factories throughout our nation are roaring back to life."

#WTO "another disaster for us," @POTUS tells steelworkers in #Illinois.

"Now China is going after our soybean farmers in the hopes we will surrender our intellectual property," says @POTUS.

"We're not going to give China or any other country a veto on United States national security," vows @POTUS. "We will not let anybody bully our wonderful American farmers."

"Breakthrough agreement" with #EU will lead to fair and reciprocal trade, says @POTUS.

"They said I was too nasty to NATO and too nice to Russia. Figure that one out."

#NATO is a lot better than Europe than it is for US, according to @POTUS.

Press accused him of treating with disrespect the @NATO "kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers and a dictator or two," says @POTUS.

KIm Jong Un "making terrific progress," says @POTUS of the #DPRK leader.

"Who know ultimately what is going to happen," says @POTUS of the Korean peninsula. "We have established, really, a very good relationship" with the #DPRK.

"Now I have a great relationship, I think, with Chairman Kim," adds @POTUS.

"You don't get the real view from the fake news media," says @POTUS.

"The more power we have the more we're not going to have to use it," says @POTUS.

EU to purchase "a large amount of American soybeans" in response to #China trying to hurt American farmers, according to @POTUS.

Thanks to @JunckerEU for "working to extend this historic agreement," says @POTUS.

"Our country is becoming prestigious again," declares @POTUS. "America is back"

And @POTUS finishes after 52 minutes on stage in Granite City, Illinois.