"As you can see behind me, we have removed the extraordinary regulatory burden" Trump says, w/ crane and pickup truck stage setup behind him ... no printouts of federal register spotted
Trump now claiming credit for "historically low gas prices" ... does not mention oil market tanking months ago
Trump mentions that he brought back incandescent lightbulbs ... no mention of windows
Trump says US "now making ventilators like nobody has ever seen before" then says US shipping ventilators abroad
"Not one person has ever needed a ventilator that didn't need it," Trump says
Some grueling poll numbers out yesterday, but one thing you see repeatedly in the crosstabs is disapproval of Trump's handling of the coronavirus response
And here's FactCheck.org on the Trump light bulb claims (the light bulb scrap is about a decade old, as noted in this piece)
Trump sticking to the TelePrompter now ... says Biden will "destroy the suburbs" .. "the suburb destruction will end with us. Next week, I will be discussing the AFFH rule, the A F F H rule, a disaster"
"They probably want to abolish it, it's not even believable, just like when I first heard about it and you heard about it, it's not even believable," Trump says of violence in NY
Trump appears to be back in campaign mode again today at WH speech. Trump politicking from the WH himself does not itself constitute a Hatch Act violation ... but if he directed WH/admin staff to do political work, that would
Trump standing there now, "thank you very much, thank you. ... *nods a bit* ... thank you very much, thank you ... we must have said something very right" and he's back to speaking
Trump says when National Guard showed up in MN, "it was like a knife cutting through butter"
"But the Natl Guard came in, and we did a great job ... we passed a statue exec order, and they were going wild. ... they want George Washington out ... they don't know what they want, they want to destroy our country. ... So I'd now like to ask VP Pence to say a few words"
Trump now says they will have "some very exciting announcements" over the next eight weeks. (That will take Trump, WH, campaign out to mid-Sept, w/ about six weeks left in the race)
"I think we'll start on Tuesday, we'll start with our plan on suburbia" adds he'll talk about immigration, other issues
"These trucks .. I don't know who thought of this, it's a great idea" he references the crane w/ "Trump Administration" flagged on it, "I don't like this big sucker over my head, I want to get out of here" ... and a few seconds later wraps
