REMARKS

Remarks by President Trump at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit | West Palm Beach, FL
Issued on: December 22, 2019

Palm Beach County Convention Center
West Palm Beach, Florida

5:23 P.M. EST

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And let me begin by wishing you a beautiful — look, do you remember this? Do you remember they were trying to take “Christmas” out of Christmas? Do you remember?

AUDIENCE: Booo —

THE PRESIDENT: They didn’t want to let you say “Merry Christmas.” You would go around, you’d see department stores that have everything — red, snow, beautiful ribbons, bows. Everything was there, but they wouldn’t say “Merry Christmas.” They’re all saying “Merry Christmas” again. You remember? (Applause.)

I went through that, during the campaign: “They going to say Merry Christmas again.” And they are. That’s the least of it, too, because we got a lot of things that they’re doing that they weren’t doing. And we got to keep the country — we got to keep what we’re doing.

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Well, we had a lot of no votes. And the Senate now is — how about that deal, where they had nothing? There’s no crime. There’s no nothing. How do you impeach? You had no crime. Even their people said there was no crime. In fact, there’s no impeachment. There’s no — their own lawyers said there’s no impeachment. What are we doing here? (Applause.) The world is watching.

Crazy Nancy. She’s crazy. (Laughter.) No, no, so now she says — you know, she has no case. She has no case. So let’s not submit it. That’s good, right? That’s good. But you know what? So unfair. It’s so unfair. She has no case. Did they look bad? They got up — the same thing, the Constitution. They are violating the Constitution totally. Totally. (Applause.) They’re violating the Constitution.

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This stuff is all pouring in: brand-new jets, the most incredible stealth jets, the F-35 fighters, the F-18, the F-16s, the — (applause) — nobody has ever seen what we’re doing. Ships, submarines — I won’t even tell you about the submarine. The most powerful ships in the world. The most powerful boats. The most powerful weapon in the world is our submarines, and they’re under construction. And we just hope to God that we never have to use them. (Applause.) We hope that we never have to use them, and we do.

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Hey, excuse me, African American — Terrence — African American — they all know him. (Applause.) African American unemployment is at the lowest level it’s ever been. (Applause.) Hispanic American employ- — right? Right? (Applause.) Hispanic American unemployment: lowest level ever. Asian American: lowest level ever. (Applause.)

By the way, women. Women. Women. (Applause.) I failed you. I failed you — lowest level in 71 years. I’m sorry. I failed. (Applause.) But, remember this, you’re going to have — very soon, you’re going to have “historic.” Lowest in 71 years.
African American. Hispanic American. Asian American.

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We’ll have an economy based on wind. I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody I know. It’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous — if you’re into this — tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything — right?

So they make these things and then they put them up. And if you own a house within vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50 percent of the price. They’re noisy. They kill the birds. You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go. Take a look. A bird graveyard. Go under a windmill someday. You’ll see more birds than you’ve ever seen ever in your life. (Laughter.)

You know, in California, they were killing the bald eagle. If you shoot a bald eagle, they want to put you in jail for 10 years. A windmill will kill many bald eagles. It’s true.

And you know what? After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off. That’s true, by the way. This is — they make you turn it off after you — and yet, if you killed one they put you in jail. That’s okay. But why is it okay for these windmills to destroy the bird population? And that’s what they’re doing.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Because they’re idiots!

THE PRESIDENT: (Laughs.) This is a conservative group, Dan. (Applause.) No, but it’s true. Am I right? (Applause.)

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No, but — and you see these magnificent fields, and they’re owned — and you know what they don’t tell you about windmills? After 10 years, they look like hell. You know, they start to get tired, old. You got to replace them. A lot of times, people don’t replace them. They need massive subsidy from the government in order to make it. It’s really a terrible thing.

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THE PRESIDENT: — next week — do you know that we’re going to be even on the Ninth Circuit? This was a disaster. (Applause.) We put a lot of judges on the Ninth Circuit. A lot of those judges that we mentioned are on the Ninth Circuit. But they have these radical judges and radical prosecutors. They ignore the laws that they don’t like. And their unbelievably, crazy partisans seek to nullify elections they didn’t win. Remember that we won an election? And I’ll tell you what, it’s never been so much in the fore- — not only did we win the election, we had an Electoral College landslide. Okay? It was a landslide. (Applause.)

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We’ve created more than 7 million jobs since the election, including 266,000 new jobs last month alone. (Applause.) For everyone graduating into the workforce this year, there are now more job openings than jobseekers for the first time in the history of our country. (Applause.)

Young people like you have seen their wages rise by more than 10 percent since the election, a number that has not been surpassed. Median household incomes are the highest in the history of our country. Real household take-home pay gains will reach up to $10,000 a year. Never happened. Under President Obama, it was $975 for eight years. Right? Median income. Under President Obama: $975. Under President Bush, it was $450. Under President — and that’s eight years, eight years — $450, $975. Right? Three years — but really, less — two and a half years, when the numbers came out. Under President Trump, per family, more than $10,000. That’s why the economy is so good. (Applause.)

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Thank you very much. It’s been an honor. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you, Charlie.

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