nation day our top story though is
former president trump
showing once again why he is and remains
the leader of the republican party
for 91 minutes he spoke to a wildly
enthusiastic crowd in orlando
delivered a calm reasoned smart
straightforward speech about his
pro-market pro-american worker agenda
essentially the former president is
laying out a strategic policy agenda for
the republican party
and if we follow this gop strategy
he expects the party to take back the
house and the senate next year
on the way to capturing the white house
in 2024.
so here's what he had to say about the
principles of trumpism
many people have asked what is trumpism
a new term being used more and more i'm
hearing that term more and more
i didn't come up with it but what it
means is great deals great trade deals
great ones
not deals where we give away everything
or jobs or
money records it means low taxes
and eliminating job killing regulations
trumpism
it means strong borders but people
coming into our country based on a
system of merit
it means no riots in the streets it
means law
enforcement
it means very strong
protection for the second amendment and
the right to keep and bear arms
it means support for the forgotten men
and women
who have been taken advantage of for so
many years
clear concise and right to the point
in short president trump has
reformulated and
merged a republican and conservative
agenda
and during my own speech to cpac on
sunday morning
i laid out how the trump agenda was a
winning agenda
and one that benefited hard-working men
and women of
all backgrounds
the biggest winners were
african-americans hispanic americans
asian-americans women blue-collar
workers
with no more than a high school diploma
all of
those groups had 50
year lows in unemployment
the total workforce in the united states
grew to a record high of 160 million
these are unheard of numbers so
there i was and people stayed by the way
they didn't run away i asked them
stay with me i'm going to give you some
numbers because it's often a fact-free
argumentation and they stayed and it was
great fun now i want to give you some
added numbers that i mentioned yesterday
this is during the pre-pandemic boom
middle class family incomes they rose a
remarkable 6 500
now that's five times the income
increase during the prior
eight years under obama biden the
combination of tax cuts and deregulation
boosted blue collar and lower income
wages by
more than 10 percent that is the best
wage hike since the year 2000
and at the top end of the income scale
it was less than four percent
and mr trump's policies these
rewarded success instead of punishing
it he's not doing class warfare he wants
america to grow and prosper he wants
smart folks to be rewarded
hard work to be rewarded here's the key
point the very key point in my view
the benefits of trump tax cuts and
regulatory rollbacks
went to those who needed them the most
key point
those who needed them the most as mr
trump put it yesterday
it was the blue collar middle class and
the lower income rungs peopled by
minority groups of all kinds
across the board who received the
biggest
share of the trump economic benefits
that is so important
over the past four years my
administration delivered for americans
of all backgrounds like never before
like never before we built the strongest
economy in the history of the world
raised wages and achieved the lowest
african-american hispanic american and
asian-american unemployment rates
ever ever ever recorded
it was so great for everybody of all
backgrounds
that even after the china virus
we are leading the world nobody's even
closed
yeah he really kid two recoveries
pre-pandemic and then
during the pandemic still we have
v-shaped recovery but look
that point is such an important point
those who needed the most
got the most benefits from the trump
package in the scriptures from matthew
25
and i'm going to paraphrase jesus said
those who help the least among us
help me and i need to say that if
president biden reverses trump taxes and
regulatory policies
he will in effect reverse the middle
class benefits
that came from the trump policies and by
the way it's not just income
household wealth stocks home values cash
that's assets minus liabilities
well for the bottom twenty percent the
bottom twenty percent of the income
quintiles
wealth jumped a massive thirty four
percent
for the middle income household wealth
increased fifteen percent
and for the top 10 percent unfortunately
real household wealth actually fell 9
so don't tell me that only rich people
benefit from president trump's policies
that is completely untrue
the numbers i'm giving you are from the
census bureau
the federal reserve survey of consumer
finances the bureau of labor statistics
these
are factoids true factoids now
i need to put this in because mr trump's
critics
who want to wage class warfare and
punish success
and continue the banal dated and
cognitively dissident fact-free
arguments
that stuff must be put down i am giving
you true
facts the numerical success of trump's
economic policy
undeniable record low unemployment
numbers
reached for blacks hispanics and asian
americans
female unemployment reached historic
lows and wages rose faster than they had
since the great depression listen to
this child
poverty fell 2 percent to a 50-year low
african-american poverty also fell 2
asian-american poverty fell 3 percent
all this why inequality dropped
according to a falling genie coefficient
and before the pandemic set in
6.6 million people were lifted
out of poverty all of which was a
consequence
of mr trump's policies he's giving
people
an opportunity to work and succeed
removing tax and regulatory barriers
and as the former president was keen to
point out last night there was not one
but two
economic recoveries during his term
pre-pandemic and then the v-shaped
recovery
in the midst of the pandemic
you know if you think about it we built
the economy twice we built it then
and then like every other country in the
world it went down and then we built it
again now it's higher
in many ways certainly in the stock
market it's higher in many ways
than it was before that's because of the
foundation and no country
comes even close to competing with our
comeback
finally i ended my cpac talk with
this thought these policies
will unify and unite republicans
and conservatives in the name of helping
america's worker and economy
and national security first there's no
division
with these policies and that's why
we should rally as conservatives and
follow through
on the remarkable achievements of former
president
trump that's what i have to say
all in folks i thought the boss had a
really good night
and i thought he laid out an important
strategy for the future