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Trump says the US had a $500 billion trade deficit with China for "many years" before he came along, though there has never once been a $500 billion trade deficit with China and though the deficit has set a new record under him.

Trump says as usual that the Obama administration said the trade deal with South Korea would create 250,000 jobs. Obama said it would support 70,000 jobs.

Trump tells his usual story about how Obama is indeed more popular than him in polls of Germans but that's only because he is doing his job of fighting for a fairer relationship.

Trump exaggerates the number of Mexican soldiers on the US border, then says, approvingly, "They play by different rules than our people." He adds, "If our people speak rudely to a person coming in, it means they get the electric chair. It's a very unfair situation."

Trump falsely/nonsensically claims Ivanka Trump has "created 14 million jobs" through the Pledge to America's Workers. These are education and training opportunities, many of them for existing employees and many planned before/entirely independent of the Pledge.

Trump is taking questions. Told that the trade war is hurting various sectors, Trump says, "They haven't been hurt. You know they were totally down. Now they're a little bit down. Because a little bit, perhaps, the uncertainty of trade wars - but there is no uncertainty."

Trump somehow turned this critical question about his trade war into the raid on Baghdadi, how the US military "didn't have ammunition" (false), "radical Islamic terrorism," and how the US "kept the oil."

Asked about how he thinks about risk that comes from climate change, Trump says, "Well, you know, climate change is a very complex issue. I consider myself to be, in many ways, an environmentalist, believe it or not...I did the best environmental impact statements."