Trump Touts Achievements, Blames Dems For Disappointments, Blasts Media In 100-Day Rally

Sunday, April 30, 2017
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Apr 30, 2017

It was back to “campaign Trump” last night in Harrisburg, PA.

Donald Trump celebrated his 100th day in office on Saturday by holding a “freewheeling campaign-style rally”, touting the accomplishments of his first three plus months in office, ignoring the disappointments, and once again slamming the media. Trump held the rally with supporters as a contrast to the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner, an annual star-studded gala in Washington that presidents typically attend.

“I could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from Washington’s swamp, spending my evening with all of you and with a much, much larger crowd and much better people,” Trump said, calling out The New York Times, CNN and MSNBC by name.

Speaking shortly after his WaPo op-ed hit, touting what in his own words were his biggest accomplishments, Trump said “my administration has been delivering every single day for the great citizens of our country. We are keeping one promise after another, and frankly the people are really happy about it.”

While Trump told the Pennsylvania crowd he was just getting started on meeting his campaign promises, he repeatedly attacked an “incompetent, dishonest” media, saying they were not telling the truth about his administration’s accomplishments. “If the media’s job is to be honest and to tell the truth, then I think we would all agree the media deserves a very, very big, fat failing grade,” he said.

“A large group of Hollywood actors and Washington media are consoling each other in a hotel ballroom in our nation’s capital right now,” Trump said to loud boos from the crowd. “If the media’s job is to be honest and to tell the truth, the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade.”

Trump and his staff chose to skip the press dinner because of what he said was unfair treatment by the press. Trump said he was thrilled to be away from the “Washington swamp”.

Focusing on his tenure in the White House, Trump listed what he said were some of his key early accomplishments, including the successful confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice Neil Gorsuch and clearing away many regulations on the environment and business according to Reuters. He also listed his approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, killing a pending Asian trade pact, and enhanced security measures that have led to a sharp decline in illegal border crossings at the southern border.

“The world is getting the message: if you try to illegally enter the United States, you will be caught, detained, deported or put in prison,” Trump said.

At the same time, he shrugged off his more prominent failures on his core campaign promises, such as repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act and construction of a Mexican border wall. Trump’s ban on visitors from some Muslim nations was blocked in court.

He blamed Democrats for the legislative failures so far and said all of his promises would be kept eventually. “We’ll build the wall, people, don’t even worry about it,” he said.

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