Administration of Donald J. Trump, 2018 Remarks at a "Make America Great Again" Rally in Duluth, Minnesota June 20, 2018 Audience members. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! The President. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Duluth. Thank you very much. I am thrilled to be back in the great State of Minnesota, with truly some of the most incredible people anywhere on Earth. You know that. And you know, I hate to bring this up— [laughter]—but we came this close to winning the State of Minnesota. And in 2½ years, it's going to be really easy, I think. [Applause] Really easy. It's been many, many decades since a Republican did that, and I thought I was going to do it. I needed one more visit, one more speech. That's why never give up. Never, ever give up. One more speech. No, we're very proud of Minnesota. Let me also say congratulations to the Bulldogs on winning the NCAA Championship hockey tournament. Wow, that's a big deal. Right in this arena. This is where they play, right? Boy, I hear they're a great team. And how many are going to the NHL? [Laughter] How many? Two? Three? That's a lot. They're going to do it. Great team. Thank you. Great team. The Bulldogs. So we're honored to be joined tonight by many wonderful Republican leaders, including our incredible House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Kevin, come up please. Where's Kevin? Where is he? Kevin. He sends a lot of money this way, I want to tell you. I also want to thank and maybe just ask him to come up—we have all night long, right? [Laughter] Do we have time? All night. We're not going anywhere. Some great people. Congressman Sean Duffy. Great champion. Come up, Sean. Come up. Great champion. You know, there—you know, the whole thing going up the trees and down the trees. Number one in the world for 4 or 5 years. Come here. With a great, great wife by the way. Very talented. [Laughter] Tom Emmer, Congressman, loves this State. And a very popular man in the State of Minnesota, Jason Lewis. I also want to thank Lieutenant Governor Michelle Fischbach for being here. She has been so great. Got a big race coming along. It's going to do great. Along with State Senator Karin Housley. Karin. Come on up here. Get them up here. Where are you? Stay there. It's too much of a deal. Good luck, Karin. Good luck, Michelle. Thank you. Also, a friend of mine and a man who's been incredible and a great supporter, Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka. And Minnesota Republican Party Chair Jennifer Carnahan, who has been fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. And finally, the person we're all here to support tonight, somebody who's very special—by the way, loves ice hockey—[laughter]—real ice hockey family. In fact, his brother, you know, the coach of the winning women's team in the Olympics. Not bad. Great family. The next Congressman from Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District, the great Pete Stauber. Come on up. I'll tell you, is this a pretty good sendoff for Pete? This is not bad, right? Hey, Pete. Come here. Say a few words. He wasn't supposed to do this, but let's hear him. Right? [Laughter] Come on. Come on. 1 Republican congressional candidate Peter Stauber. Thank you, Mr. President. Welcome to the city of Duluth and the great State of Minnesota. And as you alluded to, the home of college hockey's National Champions, the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs. I'm Pete Stauber, and I'm running in Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District because, like President Trump, I love this country. I love our freedoms. And I love our Constitution. Mr. President, before your election, you made a promise to visit Minnesota. And you promised more jobs, fewer regulations, and a better economy for everyone. Now, jobs are up, unemployment numbers are at a historic low, small businesses and manufacturers are surging, and optimism is at an alltime high. My blue-collar, commonsense conservative message is resonating throughout the 8th District. Mr. President, these people support you. And, Mr. President, these are the same people that are going to send me to Washington so together we can unleash the economic engine in Northern Minnesota. On behalf of the Minnesotans here today, thank you for coming to our great State and for always putting America—— Audience members. First! Mr. Stauber. ——for always putting America and the American worker first. Thank you. God bless America. Thank you very much. The President. So I didn't know he was going to do that, and then he takes out a speech and reads it. I said, "That's pretty good." [Laughter] He is a great guy, and he loves you, and he loves this country. And he's going to do fantastically. He's going to win. We're going to keep on winning. Remember, I used to say in a little jest, but I really meant it, "We're going to win so much." Remember? We're going to win, win, win. It's what we're doing. Remember? I said, your Governor or your Senator or Pete or somebody, they're going to come into Washington say: "Mr. President, please, we're winning too much. The people of Minnesota cannot stand winning so much. Please, can we take it easy?" And I said, "No, we're going to keep winning, winning, winning." So we've created 3.4 million new jobs since election day—3.4. And I've said before, if I would have said that to you during the campaign, those very dishonest people back there, the fake news—— Audience members. Boo! The President. Very dishonest. They would have said, "He's exaggerating." Audience members. CNN sucks! CNN sucks! CNN sucks! The President. These are very dishonest people. Many of them. And we have some people, too, doing that. But there's a lot of very dishonest people. For instance, I just got back, as you know, from Singapore, where I met Kim Jong Un. And we had a great meeting, great chemistry. We got along really well, which is very important. They didn't want us too. But they—you know, it's like nice to do that. And very interestingly, at first everybody was amazed—amazed that we had the meeting. They couldn't believe it the first 24 hours. They said, "I can't believe it." You remember that, a while ago? They said, "They're going to meet." Then, about a day later, they said: "What's the big deal with the meeting? What's the big deal?" In other words, their bosses said, "You can't say that." 2 But the beauty was this: So we had a meeting. It was an incredible success. And they said: "The President gave away so much. He met with them." I said, "What else?" That was—I met. What am I supposed to do? I have to meet. Right? "He met." Now, sentence one says, a total denuclearization of North Korea. That's what it says. We got back our hostages. And I didn't pay $1.8 billion to get back our hostages. Paid—— [At this point, the President indicated a "zero" with his hand.] We got back our great fallen heroes, the remains. In fact, today already 200 have been sent back. They stopped shooting missiles over Japan. They stopped all nuclear testing. They stopped nuclear research. They stopped rocketry. They stopped everything that you'd want them to stop. And they blew up sites where they test and do the testing. And it was a great meeting. And Kim Jong Un will turn down—and I will tell—he will turn—Chairman Kim will turn that country into a great, successful country. And let me tell you, and let me tell you—let me tell you this: A year and a half ago, nobody thought that was possible. In fact, before I was elected, everybody assumed we were going to war. It would be a vicious war. In Seoul, you have 28 million people living 30 miles off the border. They don't even need nuclear weapons for that. They have thousands of cannons aiming right on top of Seoul. You could have lost millions and millions of people. But I got along with Kim Jong Un. I got along. And that's a good thing, not a bad thing. And these people—you remember, I said, I can't believe it—"He's given away so much." You know what I gave away? A meeting. [Laughter] That was a meeting. And the fact that we do get along means we're safe. I'm not saying things can't happen. Things go wrong. Mistakes are made. Relationships get broken. But right now you are so safe, and such a great event took place. And all over Asia, they're celebrating the great achievement that we made because you were the ones that put me here. We made—that we made—all over Asia. And really all over the world. And by the way, in our country. Everybody knows what a great achievement this is not only for us, but for North Korea, for South Korea, for Japan, for China, for everybody. And I have to say, you know, you've been reading where I've been putting very large tariffs on China.