{"id":62159,"date":"2018-06-27T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=62159"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:14:04","slug":"president-trump-at-a-conversation-with-americas-future-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=62159","title":{"rendered":"President Trump at a Conversation with America\u2019s Future Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Thank you.  Thank you very much.  It\u2019s a young, very good-looking group of people.  I hate it.  I hate that.  Please sit down.  Great looking group.  I\u2019d like to be your age.  (Laughter.)  No, I\u2019d love it.  How much?  Charlie, you\u2019re doing a great job.  Great job.  Thank you very much.  I\u2019m thrilled to be here with such a very talented group of young Americans.  Incredible achievement already in your lives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brrtFf-KTX4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re joined today by student leaders from colleges and universities from all across our nation.  You are the people on the front lines of our move to forge a future of true American greatness.  We\u2019ve done an awfully good job in the last short period of time.  Had a lot of success.  A lot of success over the last couple of days in the Supreme Court.  A lot of great things are happening.<\/p>\n<p>A very special thanks, also, to my friend Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA for being with us and helping us with this event.  Thank you very much, Charlie.  Spectacular person.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to welcome all of the young people that I have such respect for.  Union representatives, where are you?  Raise your hand, please.  The toughest negotiators you\u2019ll ever find.  (Laughter.)  That\u2019s good.  That\u2019s good.  I\u2019m glad that you\u2019re here.  And you\u2019re participating in vocational and apprenticeship programs, and there\u2019s nothing more important.  It\u2019s really the beginning of something very big for all of you.  It\u2019s great to have all of you with us.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks, also, to the interns here from NASA.  We have \u2014 how about raising your hands?  Let me see NASA.  Yeah.  That\u2019s a good future because of President Trump.  We opened that up again.  (Laughter.)  We opened it up.  (Applause.)  NASA was heading in, I was going to say the wrong direction.  It was heading in no direction.  There was nothing happening, and now it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>And you heard me the other day when I was talking about it: Let the rich guys do it.  We have all these rich guys; they love rockets.  They\u2019re all sending up \u2014 Bezos and Elon Musk, and all of them.  They\u2019re sending \u2014 they love the rocket business.  Let them \u2014 just rent it to them for a lot of money and let them play.  You know, they need our land.  It\u2019s good to be in the real estate business.  They need our land.  Let them send up their rockets.  Let them be the first to Mars, and we\u2019ll take all the credit.  Okay?  (Laughter.)<\/p>\n<p>But NASA is very important.  And we also, on a serious note, are very, very much involved with that, and also from a military standpoint.  Space \u2014 you know all about Space Force.  But space is a very big factor in the Trump administration.  Very important for defense.  Space Force.<\/p>\n<p>Each of you represent the future of this nation.  You aren\u2019t afraid to speak the truth and the truth as you know it, and to stand up for what you know is right, even if it means being politically incorrect on occasion.  Okay?  I\u2019ve been politically incorrect a lot, and here we are.  So it\u2019s okay, I guess.  (Laughter.)<\/p>\n<p>We believe in free speech on college campuses, not censorship.  Institutions of higher learning should be forums for open discussion either way.  You can be liberal, you can be conservative, you can be Democrats, Republicans.  Hear it all out \u2014 and you make your choice.  You may not agree with me on things.  Some people don\u2019t; some people do.  But you have to have free speech.<\/p>\n<p>You bring fresh eyes to old problems, because as young people, you\u2019re not burdened by the failed thinking of the past.  And you really have to say \u201csome\u201d of the failed thinking.  Some of it has been very good.<\/p>\n<p>You understand that for a nation to be successful, it must have a strong military and it must have strong borders and security inside our country.  And we\u2019ve just had $700 billion approved \u2014 the largest ever for our military.  And next year we already have it approved $716 billion.  And we will shortly be stronger than we ever were before.  So important.  Hopefully we never have to use it.  We don\u2019t want to use our military for that.  We want to keep training, training, training, but never have to use it.  But if we have to use it, nobody is going to come close.<\/p>\n<p>You have to believe in protecting the entire Constitution, as written, including the right to free speech and the right to keep and bear arms.  Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>You know that a nation must be proud of its history to be confident.  And a nation has to be confident in its future.  And you know that we must honor and respect our great American flag \u2014 which we do.  Everybody in this room does.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re citizens of the freest, strongest, and greatest nation on Earth.  Also, I can say, greatest nation ever to exist, and we\u2019re getting stronger every day.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, you\u2019re in the prime of your life.  Actually, most of you aren\u2019t even in the prime of your life.  You\u2019ll be in the prime of your life in about 15 years.  I\u2019m going to make it as long as possible.  But you\u2019re doing a fantastic job, and your life has been a truly exciting one.  I know a lot of the stories in this room.<\/p>\n<p>Our economy is booming, confidence is soaring, and there\u2019s never been a better time to be young and to be American.  Never been a better time.  The opportunity now is incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment for people under the age of 24 is the lowest in almost 50 years.  Think of that.  The lowest \u2014 the best in almost 50 years.  And, shortly, we\u2019re going to have the all-time best that we\u2019ve ever had.<\/p>\n<p>African American youth unemployment is the lowest level in the history of our country.  And African American unemployment is the lowest level in history.  Hispanic unemployment is the lowest level in history.  Women unemployment is the lowest level in 21 years and will soon be, I think, in history.  I think we need another couple of months, frankly.  But I think soon we\u2019ll be able to say, for women, it will be \u2014 unemployment \u2014 the lowest in history.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our massive tax cuts, young men and women entering the workforce are keeping more and more of the money they earn.  So are older people, frankly.  And it\u2019s really helping you get a stronger start in life.  A lot of advantages.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve eliminated horrible policies that burdened young Americans.  You were burdened by things that were really, in some cases, insurmountable, including the individual mandate in Obamacare.  A disaster.  That\u2019s where you pay a lot of money for the privilege of not buying health insurance.  Right?  One of the worst things.  It\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p>People were devastated by that.  They were paying tremendous amounts of money so that they didn\u2019t have to pay for healthcare.  And the healthcare was no good.  And we have new healthcare programs.  One was announced last week.  It\u2019s phenomenal \u2014 the association program.  You associate.  Associations of people.  Businesses get together and they buy it across state lines.  They\u2019re going to get tremendous healthcare.  People have no idea how important that\u2019s going to be.  And we have another one coming out from Secretary Azar in two weeks.  It\u2019s going to be incredible.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re investing in job training and vocational schools so citizens of all ages can take advantage of new jobs and the new prosperity that our country is going through.  We\u2019ve never had prosperity like this.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve increased \u2014 let\u2019s use the word \u201cworth\u201d \u2014 the worth, in an economic sense, of our country by over $7 trillion since my election \u2014 $7 trillion.  I got nothing out of it, except I\u2019m very proud of it.  It\u2019s a great number.<\/p>\n<p>GDP numbers are way up.  And we have another one coming out, I guess, over the next four of five weeks.  It\u2019ll be interesting for this quarter.  But we hit 3.2.  If I would have said 3.2 percent; if I would have said that black unemployment is the lower in history or Hispanic unemployment, lowest in history; if I would have said any of the things that I just told you during the campaign, the press would have said, \u201cWhat is he talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet, honestly, what we\u2019re doing is far greater than what I would say on the campaign trail.  I could have won by even more if I would have used these numbers.  (Laughter.)<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019re fixing the broken trade deals, of which they\u2019re so horrible.  So \u2014 I can\u2019t watch them.  It would be so easy for me not to do anything, like every other President for many years.  Just don\u2019t do \u2014 we\u2019re doing great.  It\u2019s \u2014 they\u2019re so one-sided and such an embarrassment, and they\u2019re getting fixed very easily, because we\u2019re the piggy bank that everybody wants to rob \u2014 both our friends and our enemies.<\/p>\n<p>And, frankly, our friends, in many ways, certainly in terms of trade, have been more devastating than our enemies.  The deals are just horrendous.  We had nobody watching; we had nobody looking.  And we\u2019re talking about trillions of dollars, not billions.  We\u2019re talking about trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>So we want to make fair deals, but we want those deals to be reciprocal.  The key word is \u201creciprocal.\u201d  We have countries that are friends.  They have tremendous trade surpluses, and they have barriers that our farmers can\u2019t deal in that country.  And yet, they\u2019ll send us millions of cars and make a fortune.<\/p>\n<p>European Union \u2014 we love the European Union.  They make $151 billion a year \u2014 $151 billion.  There\u2019s no company like that.  This is just the European Union.  And then we have more.  And we\u2019re working with China now, and I think hopefully that\u2019ll get straightened out.  But that was anywhere from $375 [billion] \u2014 depending on the way you want to count it \u2014 $375 [billion] to $500 billion-a-year loss.  It\u2019s time for us to get smart.<\/p>\n<p>So as you continue to develop your talents and to make your mark upon the world, remember that nothing worth doing is ever easy.  You\u2019ll have bad moments.  I used to give speeches on success.  I don\u2019t give them anymore.  It was \u2014 that\u2019s what they like the best.  You got to love what you\u2019re doing.  And if you don\u2019t, just do something else.  Find what you\u2019re \u2014 especially at you age, you have to love what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll never be successful \u2014 unless you get lucky, which could happen \u2014 but if you don\u2019t love what you\u2019re doing, find something else.  If you don\u2019t love NASA, if you don\u2019t love space, do something else.  And for the people that do, get over there and be with the space cadets, right?  (Laughter.)  But you got to love it.  If you don\u2019t love it, you\u2019re just not going to \u2014 it\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>You have to follow your passion.  You have to do what you want to do.  You have to listen to people.  You have to go around and say, \u201cWhat\u2019s a good industry?\u201d  Because I know people that love things, but they\u2019re behind the eight ball because they\u2019re going into something that\u2019s not a good industry.  So if you can find something else \u2014 because there are industries that are so great, and there are places that are heading in the wrong direction \u2014 and things.<\/p>\n<p>You want to try and be in that upslope if you can find your passion there.  If you can\u2019t, still, stick with \u2014 you have to stick with.<\/p>\n<p>And speak your mind.  Ask questions.  You\u2019re at such an important part of your life because you are making the decision for the rest of your life right now.  This is your big time.  You\u2019re most wanted; everybody wants you.  You\u2019re young.  You\u2019re smart.  You\u2019re brilliant.  And this is the time that\u2019s going to really guide the rest of your lives.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a very important time for you.  So just love it.  Love it.  But try and go into something where you can have a wonderful life, where it just is worthwhile.  Because there are some things that it\u2019s tough.<\/p>\n<p>Keep standing up always for your values.  Keep working with your classmates and your friends.  Keep loving your country.  And one of the most important things: Never, ever quit.  Never quit.  You know, I went to a great school.  I went to the Wharton School of Finance.  And in that school, I met a lot of people.  A lot of people heading industry today and over the past.  Very smart people.  But I\u2019ve watched some of the people grow.  I\u2019ve watched some of the most incredible, brilliant students.  And they didn\u2019t make it like other people made it because they didn\u2019t have that drive.  They didn\u2019t have that never-give-up ability.  I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s an ability or if you have it.  Just, you can\u2019t quit.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ve seen people quitting.  And if they would have held out longer, they would have been successful.  I\u2019ve seen it so much.  I\u2019ve seen some of the most brilliant people in the world that never made it because they were quitters.  They were just quitters.  They would quit.  They would \u2014 they just couldn\u2019t take it.  They couldn\u2019t, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things about loving what you do is that it\u2019s not work, and therefore you don\u2019t quit automatically.  It\u2019s a lot easier not to quit.  But you can never give up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you have to also have flexibility though.  You can\u2019t necessarily say, \u201cI\u2019m never giving up.  I\u2019m going to\u2026\u201d  And you got to be able to weave and bob.  You don\u2019t have to go through a concrete wall when you can go over it or around it or under it or something.  You have to have flexibility.  You have to always be able to change course a little bit, maybe always with that same goal.  But don\u2019t quit.  It\u2019s be \u2014 there aren\u2019t a lot of people that have quit.  If you were quitters, you probably wouldn\u2019t be here today with me.  Okay?  You probably wouldn\u2019t be here.  But never, ever quit.<\/p>\n<p>So I want to thank you all for coming.  This is an honor to be with you.  You\u2019re the future.  You\u2019re the future of our country.  You\u2019re the future of the world, in many respects.  We have a great country.  We have tremendous potential.  We have potential, frankly, that has been untapped.  And we\u2019re finding out what that potential is and finding it out in ways and means and numbers that nobody ever thought existed.<\/p>\n<p>I want to just say God bless you and your families.  And God bless our great country.  And have a tremendous life.  You are off to the best start.  Thank you very much.  Thank you.  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you, Charlie.  Thank you all.  Go get \u2019em!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Thank you. Thank you very much. It\u2019s a young, very good-looking group of people. I hate it. I hate that. Please sit down. Great looking group. 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