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Donald Trump: “We just hit records on the Dow.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 11:45

They probably know better than most people. But you can't let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon or the world would be in trouble. The world would be in trouble. So We just hit records on the Dow. It was supposed to be done in five or six years. Somebody said it couldn't be possible to reach 50 on the Dow. And I reached 50 in the first year and then I reached 7,000. (11:45–11:49)

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Asserts that the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit new records.

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