Trump Claims He’s Done More In 9 Months ‘Than Any President In History’

President Donald Trump applauds members of the audience before speaking at the Heritage Foundation's annual President's Club meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Donald Trump applauds members of the audience before speaking at the Heritage Foundation's annual President's Club meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that “they say” he’s done more during his first nine months in the Oval Office “than any President in history.”

Trump has struggled to achieve his legislative agenda, but conservatives, and Trump himself, point to the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court as a major accomplishment for the President.

Speaking to the crowd gathered at the Heritage Foundation’s President’s Club meeting, Trump apologized to the “lobbyists” in the crowd who may lose their jobs because of his efforts to “put more Americans back to work and more lobbyists out of work” by repealing the Environmental Protection Agency’s “so called Clean Power Plan.”

“(We) have ended finally the war on clean, beautiful coal. People are going back to work,” he said. “Over the last nine months we have removed job-killing regulations at a record pace. In fact, in nine months, we have done more, they say, than any President in history.”

It wasn’t clear who “they” are, but Trump claimed there was “more to come,” saying “regulatory reform” is part of his administration’s drive to “drain the swamp.”

“We have statutory guidelines we have to go by — a period of time, but there’s much more to come,” he said. “I believe in regulation but, it has to be limited to what we need. We want clean water, we want clean air. It has to be fair. We also want, by the way, jobs.”

Watch his full speech below:

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  1. Trump Claims He’s Done More In 9 Months ‘Than Any President In History’

    In a way he is right…

  2. In many respects Trump is correct. He has done more to overturn and disrupt the fabric of our society, to rollback 60 years of progress on social justice, to undermine the rule of law, and to polarize the citizens of the country in 9 months than any President in History. You have to give credit where credit is due.

  3. Seriously deranged. He points to 'the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch ’ when that was stolen and then re-gifted with a pretty bow to Donnie as soon as he was confirmed. He didn’t do squat. Maybe he ‘thinks’ tweeting counts as an accomplishment or at least I’m sure that is what Huckabee Sanders will insist are the ‘facts’ of the matter.

  4. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    Any possible nuance, even the idea of nuance, is buried under a mountain of clean, beautiful coal.

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