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Donald Trump: “We just broke 50,000 in the Dow. We just broke 7,000 in the…”

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Trump gives update on White House correspondents' dinner shooting

Published | Video Starts at 24:08

Marco and I were talking about it today. They would use it without even hesitation. We can't do that. It was a shame. I said, oh, boy, look at the numbers. We just broke 50,000 in the Dow. We just broke 7,000 in the S and P. They said we couldn't do it in seven years, five years, four years. They were saying maybe in five or six years. And we did it in one year. (24:08–24:13)

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Asserts that the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 reached 50,000 and 7,000, respectively.

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