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!
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:
Recently, Democrat US Reps Castro and Casar landed $38 million in federal money to keep San Antonio's Migrant Resource Center open, which is run by Catholic Charities.
🚨This is one of the most terrifying bills, introduced by two Democrat Senators, that I have ever read!
They want to create a Ministry of Truth using Thought Police, and Senator Bennet even describes it as “putting a full time cop on the beat” to police social media and other… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Here is who introduced the bill yesterday.
Colorado Senator Bennet and Vermont Senator Welch, once again under the guise of public safety.
This was horrific but was it really intentional or was he trying to avoid the other car that pulled out into the road? It’s hard to tell from this. It seemed like he was driving pretty fast, what’s the speed limit there?
Police investigating if the suspect was impaired, though that would be SOP. I assume they’ll also investigate whether the other car that pulled out was a contributing factor. Suspect still seemed to be driving awfully fast.
The suspect may have blown through a red light, but I can’t tell what color the light was. It took several seconds after the other car turned onto that road for the suspect’s car to appear.
So far, he’s been charged with reckless driving, but police are still investigating.
64 year old Joanne Marian Segovia, the Executive Director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association Union, was charged with trafficking narcotics such as pain killers and fentanyl analogs!
One of Senator Rand Paul’s staffers was brutally attacked and stabbed in DC. Sending prayers 🙏🏻🙏🏻.
According to a witness who was with the staffer, the attacker was hiding in a corner somewhere & jumped out & attacked the staffer as the witness & staffer walked by.