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Trump begins: "Are you a citizen of the United States of America? Oh gee, I'm sorry, I just can't answer that question. And that's after spending billions and billions of dollars."
Trump claims of opponents of putting the citizenship question on the basic Census: "The only people who are not proud to be citizens are the ones who are fighting us all the way about the word citizenship."
Trump says he is pursuing a "new option" over the citizenship question because litigation would take too long: he's ordering federal departments to "provide the Department of Commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and non-citizens in our country."
Trump is now touting this option: "The Census Bureau projected that using previously available records, it could determine citizenship for 90% of our population or more." He says his order allows an "even more complete count of citizens than of asking the single question alone."
Trump did not take questions at the event he'd billed on Twitter as a "News Conference." He sometimes uses "news conference" to mean "event where he speaks to the media."
