*EXCLUSIVE* TRUMP INTERVIEW: President Says 4.1% GDP GROWTH is JUST THE BEGINNING
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Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 27 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Just hours after a stunning economic report showed a staggering 4.1% growth in GDP, President Trump spoke with Sean Hannity to discuss the robust American recovery; saying “it’s going to get even better” in the coming months as the trade deficit continues to tumble.
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| 0:00.0 | For those folks who have lost their job right now because a plant went down to Mexico, |
| 0:06.3 | you know, that isn't going to make you feel better. And so what we have to do is to make sure |
| 0:13.2 | that folks are trained for the job that are coming in now because some of those jobs of the past |
| 0:20.2 | are just not going to come back. Moments ago, the numbers for America's economic growth or GDP were |
| 0:27.9 | just released. And I am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, |
| 0:35.3 | the United States economy grew at the amazing rate of 4.1%. We're on track to hit the highest |
| 0:45.2 | annual average growth rate in over 13 years. And I will say this right now and I'll say it strongly |
| 0:53.1 | as the trade deals come in one by one, we're going to go a lot higher than these numbers. And |
| 0:58.6 | these are great numbers. During each of the two previous administrations, we average just over 1.8% |
| 1:06.0 | GDP growth. By contrast, we are now on track to hit an average GDP annual growth of over 3% and |
| 1:15.8 | it could be substantially over 3%. Each point, by the way, means approximately $3 trillion |
| 1:26.9 | and 10 million jobs. Think of that. Each point, you go up one point. That doesn't sound like much. |
| 1:32.4 | It's a lot. It's $3 trillion and it's 10 million jobs. |
| 1:38.4 | Right as we continue Sean Hannity show, there was Obama saying, yeah, in his own words, |
| 1:43.9 | some of these jobs didn't ever come back. The only president in American history never to hit |
| 1:49.5 | 3% GDP growth in a single year. And he's accumulated more debt than every other president before him |
| 1:55.9 | combined, including 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty. And we've |
| 2:02.0 | gone from the lowest labor participation rate in history now to the highest. And that's only part |
| 2:07.0 | of the economic story of today, explosive 4.1 GDP growth joining us now is the president of the |
| 2:13.2 | United States, Donald Trump, Mr. President. Congratulations. And on top of that, I think one of the |
| 2:19.6 | more under reported stories is that we now have a trade deficit that dropped by more than $50 billion. |
| 2:27.9 | Well, thank you very much, Sean. And you're right. That's to me. You're so important. You're phase two of |
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