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<\/p>\nRUSH: Ronna McDaniel… Here are the economic numbers, by the way: 273,000 new jobs. That\u2019s a hundred thousand more than expected. This is the February report just last month, just last month. We had 85,000 more jobs created in December and January than originally thought. It\u2019s an upward revision, for those of you in Rio Linda. The unemployment rate is back down to 3.5%. So, 273,000 new jobs. That\u2019s 100,000 more than the so-called experts projected.<\/p>\n
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Now, here\u2019s some facts about these numbers. Just two months into the year, the U.S. economy has already added more jobs than had been projected for the entire year, and that\u2019s not a senseless projection. I mean, the U.S. economy is humming along at pretty much statistical full employment. When you\u2019re at 3.5% unemployment, statistically that equals full employment. In other words, to have the unemployment rate less than that, you have to add jobs that probably are not gonna be added.<\/p>\n
So 3.5%? It doesn\u2019t get any better than that, is the point, and already — two months into this year — the U.S. economy\u2019s already added more jobs than had been projected to be created for this entire year. I mentioned last time we were together (that would have been Tuesday) that everybody\u2019s worried about the effect of the coronavirus on the economy. I think the economy has got a bunch of strength baked in, that the stock market…<\/p>\n
We can handle declines that we\u2019re seeing. We could handle if there are some job losses. The economy is doing so well that even if there is a significant slowdown, at the end of that we\u2019re gonna be so far ahead of where we were when Trump took office that it\u2019s not even gonna be close. The Congressional Budget Office had projected an annual gain of 441,000 jobs this year, and we\u2019ve already — just in the first two months of 2020 — created or added 546,000 jobs. In the first two months!<\/p>\n
Do you realize, that doesn\u2019t happen! That\u2019s when seasonal workers for holidays are let go. That\u2019s when unemployment usually rises — and wages are up a solid 3% as well. Now I want to go back to the… Not back to it. I want to go to the Trump town hall appearance last night on the Fox News Channel, because there was one particular thing. He said a lot of things last night. He was at ease, he was relaxed, he was comfortable, and they tried… I don\u2019t blame anybody for this.<\/p>\n
They tried to trip Trump up a couple of times on questions, and he just didn\u2019t fall for it. This is not a criticism of anybody. Do not misunderstand. It\u2019s just what journalists do, and Trump was on his game, and he saw what the attempt was and didn\u2019t get drawn into it. But this bite here is one I specifically asked Cookie to roll off for me because they were asking him, what about his old life does he miss.<\/p>\n
They asked him, “Go back to the day before you came down the escalator, June of 2015. The day before, what was your life like? Do you miss any of that?”<\/p>\n
This is what he said…<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: I loved my old life. The day before I announced I was running for president, that was the best period ever of my life. My company was strongest it ever was. It was the strongest period of my life. It was sort of the best period of my entire life.<\/p>\n
MACCALLUM: Is there anything that you can\u2019t do now that you —<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: Well, yeah. I mean, I can\u2019t walk down the street now. So it\u2019s a lot different. So I do miss that. I miss that sort of free life. This is not a free life. But I love what we\u2019re doing because we\u2019re accomplishing more than anybody\u2019s ever… I\u2019m viewing it as, we\u2019re saving this country.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: This country was going wrong.<\/p>\n