{"id":54014,"date":"2018-02-26T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=54014"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:07:56","slug":"president-trump-at-the-governors-ball-signals-may-be-willing-to-push-nra-on-gun-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=54014","title":{"rendered":"President Trump at the Governors\u2019 Ball., Signals May Be Willing to push NRA on Gun Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Thank you.  Well, I want to start by congratulating our great First Lady on such a beautiful room.  I\u2019ve never seen it look so beautiful.  Worked very hard.  (Applause.)  I also want to say that it\u2019s an honor to have so many of our tremendously talented governors with us.  This is a yearly tradition, and our crowd gets a little bit larger every year.  The governors \u2014 we\u2019re going to have a lot of meetings tomorrow.  We\u2019re going to have some very important meetings.  We\u2019ll be talking about Parkland and the horrible event that took place last week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RrbaMf-ooLM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I want to thank Governor Rick Scott of Florida.  Rick, please stand up.  You\u2019re doing a great job.  Really great job.  (Applause.)<\/p>\n<p>And that will be one of the subjects.  And I think we\u2019ll make that first on our list, because we have to end our country of what\u2019s happening with respect to that subject.  So we\u2019ll be talking about that and many other things.<\/p>\n<p>The economy is doing phenomenally well.  I think you\u2019ll see numbers that get better and better.  The cutting of regulation has been an incredible event.  People are being able now to build.  They\u2019re building and they\u2019re farming and doing lots of things that they were having a very hard time doing.<\/p>\n<p>Governor, I see you shaking your head, \u201cYes, yes.  It\u2019s true.\u201d  We\u2019re getting so many compliments.  And, you know, really, the regulations have kicked in because I began that right at the beginning of 13 months.  I mean, I started right from day one.<\/p>\n<p>The massive tax cuts that we\u2019ve just gotten are now starting to kick in.  So congratulations, everybody.  (Applause.)<\/p>\n<p>And I think that you\u2019re going to see some numbers coming up over the next year, the likes of which we haven\u2019t seen in our country for many, many years.  Your GDP numbers, as you know, the first quarter \u2014 or the last quarter for the previous administration \u2014 was not good.  And if you look at them now, we\u2019re hitting 3\u2019s [percent] routinely, and we had a 3.2.  And now, I think, we\u2019re going to exceed that by quite a bit.  We\u2019ll find out very shortly.  But I can tell you, definitely over the course of the next couple of years we\u2019re going to really be exceeding it.<\/p>\n<p>So I just want to congratulate you.  You\u2019re very, very special people.  The job you do is really incredible, and it\u2019s not easy.  But we\u2019re very proud of you, and we\u2019re very proud to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, I\u2019d like to ask Brian of Nevada \u2014 the Governor who has done an excellent job.  But you\u2019re not going to be there that much longer.  I\u2019m not so happy about that.  (Laughter.)  He said he\u2019s had enough for a while.  I don\u2019t know what his next thing will be, but whatever it is, we\u2019re with you.  You know that.<\/p>\n<p>So come on up and say a couple of words, Brian.  Thank you.  Thank you, Brian.  (Applause.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Thank you. Well, I want to start by congratulating our great First Lady on such a beautiful room. I\u2019ve never seen it look so beautiful. Worked very hard. (Applause.) I also want to say that it\u2019s an honor to have so many of our tremendously talented governors with us. 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