The 37 must-see lines from Donald Trump's 1st press conference
Whoa boy.
Donald Trump has kept a low profile since winning the White House last month. With the exception of two recent media interviews, he has holed up at Mar-a-Lago as he lays his plans for his second four-year stint as president.
Which is what made Monday so notable. Following the announcement that Softbank, a Japanese tech firm, would invest $100 billion in America, Trump decided to take some questions. It turned into a full-fledged press conference — his first since becoming the president-elect.
I spent last night and this morning going through the transcript. It was, uh, wild — with Trump clearly in a good mood and brimming with confidence (even more than usual!).
The key Trump lines from the presser are below.
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To the lines!
“We'll take some questions later if you'd like. I'm sure you might have wanted to. I'd be shocked if you didn't. I'd be very impressed.”
He’d be impressed if the media didn’t have questions? Good times. Goooooood times. And away we go!
“You know, it's very level fields, and the only thing that stops a bullet is a body, a human body.”
Truly a keening intellect on display.
“It's a very flat surface, a very flat land. That's why it's great farming land. It's the -- it's the bread basket for the world actually, but it's very flat and there's nothing to stop a bullet but a body.”
He’s talking about Ukraine. Very flat land. Great for farming. Bad for war. Nothing to stop the bullets.
“We had the greatest economy that the world had seen.”
[narrator voice] We did not.
“The wall was designed specifically by the Border Patrol because it's very hard to climb. They need to have see-through, they need it to be steel because you can't cut -- it's very powerful steel, it's very hard steel, it's a special type of steel but very, very hard to cut”
Is “powerful steel” or “very hard steel” at all related to “Blue Steel”?
“Inside the steel, as you know, we pour concrete, and that's a -- a Grade 10 concrete, which is a very strong concrete, very -- as though you were building about a 60-story building. It's very powerful concrete. We have made tremendous technology advances in the word ‘concrete.’”
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