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Donald Trump: “Think of it, a year ago, we were a dead country.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington

Published | Video Starts at 38:32

We're making America greater than ever before, and that's why I'm doing it. And we are. We are doing numbers that nobody's ever seen, nobody ever even thought possible for. Think of it, a year ago, we were a dead country. We're like a dead country. And now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. There's nobody even close. It's pretty amazing. I'll tell you. None of it would be possible. (38:32–38:36)

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Asserts that the country was in a poor state a year ago.

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