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    THE PRESIDENT: It was? It was (inaudible).

    MR. MILLETT: Yeah, it went viral.

    Yes, so thank you for the honor to be here.

    THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.

    MR. MILLETT: This is a once in a lifetime. So we appreciate all you do for Special Olympics. And we -

    THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.

    MR. MILLETT: - say thank you.

    THE PRESIDENT: Very proud of you. Thank you very much. That's great. That is really - how about over here? Anybody want to say something about your great victory?

    MS. RODRIGUES: I'm Delina. I'm a powerlifter and I won gold overall. (Applause.)

    THE PRESIDENT: You did? (Inaudible.) Let me see. Excellent. Yeah, I can see that. (Laughter.) So how much - how much did you lift?

    MS. RODRIGUES: I'd say 120.

    THE PRESIDENT: Wow. I can't lift to 120. (Laughter.) That's fantastic.

    MS. RODRIGUES: Thank you.

    THE PRESIDENT: I can see that. Thank you.

    Go ahead.

    MR. SPAETH: I do track. I'm from Greensboro, North Carolina.

    THE PRESIDENT: That's fantastic. (Applause.) I just left - I just left North Carolina. That's a great state. It's a great - they're great people. Great state. I just left. I just got back. I got back late last night from North Carolina.

    MS. CAMERON: Okay!

    THE PRESIDENT: Right? Good, right?

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    MS. CAMERON: Yeah.

    THE PRESIDENT: That's -

    MS. CAMERON: I see you on TV. (Laughter.)

    THE PRESIDENT: You saw me on TV?

    MS. CAMERON: Yes, I did.

    THE PRESIDENT: Did you like it?

    MS. CAMERON: Yeah.

    THE PRESIDENT: Did you like - see? That's good.

    MS. CAMERON: I did.

    THE PRESIDENT: Boy, that was good. And I didn't - I didn't pay for that. (Laughter.) I didn't pay - I didn't pay for that, Jon.

    But listen, just on behalf of Karen Pence; Mike Pence, our Vice President; Melania, First Lady; and everybody here - and, Mary, I want to thank you for doing a fantastic job. Karen, I want to thank you for doing an incredible job. You work so hard.

    MRS. PENCE: Well, thank you, Mr. President, for restoring funding for Special Olympics. We are very, very grateful. (Applause.)

    THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much.

    Q   Mr. President, if I may -

    MR. MILLETT: Mr. President, we have a -

    Q   Mr. President, Mr. President, if I may -

    THE PRESIDENT: Jon, excuse me.

    Go ahead.

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    MR. MILLETT: Mr. President, we have a shirt we'd like to give you. Mr. Vice President, I have a shirt we'd like to give you.

    THE PRESIDENT: Oh, that's very nice.

    THE VICE PRESIDENT: (Inaudible) give it to the President.

    MR. MILLETT: Yep. She has it.

    THE PRESIDENT: Oh, that's beautiful. Thank you.

    MR. MILLETT: I have your -

    We all signed it.

    THE PRESIDENT: Wow. All signed. Thank you so much.

    MR. MILLETT: Thank you very much, Mr. President.

    THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.

    Okay, thank you.

    Thank you, darling. Appreciate it.

    MS. RODRIGUES: No problem.

    THE PRESIDENT: No problem is right. (Laughter.)

    Yes.

    Q   And, Mr. President, if I may, when your supporters last night were shouting - chanting, "Send her back," why didn't you stop them? Why didn't you ask them to stop saying that?

    THE PRESIDENT: Well, number one, I think I did. I started speaking very quickly. It really was a loud - I disagree with it, by the way. But it was quite a chant. And I felt a little bit badly about it. But I will say this: I did, and I started speaking very quickly. But it started up rather - rather fast, as you probably noticed.

    Q   So you'll tell your supporters never to say it again?

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    THE PRESIDENT: Well, I would say that -

    Q   That that is -

    THE PRESIDENT: - I was not happy with it. I disagreed with it. But again, I didn't say - I didn't say that; they did. But I disagree with it.

    Q   But they were echoing what you said in your first tweet, that they should "go back."

    THE PRESIDENT: Well, I don't think - if you examine it, I don't think you'll find that. But I disagree with it.

    Anybody else?

    Q   Why did you decline the NAACP's invitation to be part of the presidential forum next week?

    THE PRESIDENT: Because we had a date set and then they wanted to change the date. And they wanted to do it within the form of an interview. I had agreed to make a speech. I would have loved to have made a speech to the NAACP.

    We have, as you know, record unemployment numbers - the lowest in the history of our country. We have - the poverty numbers - it's a poverty scale - and the African Americans doing the best that they've ever done in the history of our country. We have something to be very proud of. I mean, really proud of.

    I was going over with Mike, before, some of the numbers having to do with the African American community. It's the best numbers we've ever had.

    I very much wanted to go, but we had a date; the date got changed. And unfortunately, they wanted to do it in the form of a question and answer. I think you were going to be, possibly, the person asking the question.

    Q   I am the moderator.

    THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, I mean, so -

    Q   And they say -

    THE PRESIDENT: - maybe you could answer the question better than me.

    Yes, go ahead.
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