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Donald Trump: “We were a dead country a year ago. A couple of years ago, we…”

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

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Because as you know, in the last term, we were a dead country. Kristen, I know you. You're a big liberal. We're a big progressive. No, I'm just a journalist. We were a dead country a year ago. A couple of years ago, we were a dead country. Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. And at the all time hottest point, which is probably now, believe it or not, you just had all brand new stock market records today. (21:57–22:02)

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Asserts that the U.S. was in a poor state a year or two ago.

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