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Donald Trump: “FEMA was a disaster. FEMA wasn't there. They didn't do the…”

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Published February 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:58

Since I've been in for four weeks, we've done more than they did in all of the period of time. And FEMA was a disaster. FEMA wasn't there. They didn't do the job. And it was a terrible, terrible situation. I've never seen anything like it. And then they actually, when they did get there, a very small group, they chose anybody with … (01:58–02:03)

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“We have more energy than anybody in the world.”
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“Biden set us up in Venezuela instead of taking [oil] from our own land.”
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“We have more liquid gold, and it's really great liquid gold, too.”
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“We've made Venezuela strong again.”
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“We have more than any other country in the world.”
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“They empty jails and prisons, mental institutions, insane asylum, gang members, drug lords, drugs people, people on drugs, people that are…”
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“We have one stat that I quote, the autism stat, and you hear different numbers, but it's thousands. They say between 10 and 20,000.”
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“Tim Cook [from Apple]... He's investing hundreds of billions of dollars.”
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“They stopped two plants in Mexico. They were under construction, Started construction. They just stopped them. They're going to build here…”
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“Of the 3,000 counties, we won 2,500 of them, and the Democrats won 500.”
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“The heroes of ICE have been really hunting down the really bad ones.”
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