The Shell Game of Corrupted Government Exposed
Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion on Supporting Native Americans
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Honeywell International Inc. • Phoenix, AZ • May 5 • 2:27 P.M. MST
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. We very much appreciate this time, and I'm with some very good friends. We've been friends for a long time. And we're working together very closely.
I'm honored to be with you today to discuss the unprecedented actions my administration has taken to support our treasured Native American communities. Together, we're fighting for everybody, but we're fighting this horrible coronavirus. It's a tough opponent, but we're winning and we're starting to see our country come back. It's been a very exciting few days. We're starting to see it all come back.
We're improving the lives of Native American families and tribes more than any administration has done by far.
We're grateful to be joined by Governor Doug Ducey. And thank you very much, Doug, for being with us.
GOVERNOR DUCEY: Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Secretary Eugene Scalia. Thank you, Eugene.
SECRETARY SCALIA: My pleasure.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Senator Martha McSally, who's doing very well. I hear things are very good. You're doing great. Thank you, Martha.
Vice President of Naho- — Navajo Nation, Myron Liz- — Lizer. And — and, by the way, we appreciate it very much. And you know there is two ways of saying that name. They told me outside, but I always think of it as "Lezer." So how do you like it? How do you like it?
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: Lizer.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's what I thought. Okay. Thanks, Myron, very much. And Second Lady, thank you very much for being here. We really, really appreciate it.
The Navajo Nation has been very special to a lot of people. And it's certainly been very special to the state. And the relationship, Doug, I think is extraordinary, isn't it -
GOVERNOR DUCEY: (Inaudible.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: — when you get right down to it. So thank you very much and we very much appreciate it.
Native Americans have been hit hard by the terrible pandemic. Over 2,000 members of the Navajo Nation have tested positive for the coronavirus. And tragically, more than 70 have lost their lives.
How is it looking right now? How is it doing?
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: Well, the numbers are still rising. We're hoping it flattens. Our health professionals have said that the peak will be in mid-May. And it's kind of uncanny and it's fallen that — that way. So 2,400 infected; it was 73 that have succumbed. And that's too many.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's a lot. Mitigation-wise, you're doing what?
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: We have shut down the — enacted a 57-hour curfew over the weekend. Our people love to travel out to the border towns off the reservation.
Recently, the National Guard came in and shut down Gal- — under a new mayor leadership in Gallup, New Mexico. So they've been on lockdown for five, six days now. And so that's helped. But our people are readily going to other border towns, like
Flagstaff and Farmington, New Mexico. So I think the super majority are obeying and staying home.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: But what we're doing, you know, we're bringing these two — these are very hard to come by, because they're very popular. This is done by Abbott Laboratories. And we're bringing them for you. And these are the quick tests, and they're very accurate and very fast.
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: Yes.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So we're doing that. I think we have a thousand cartridges, too. A thousand for a thousand tests. So hopefully that'll be — that'll be helpful to you. Okay?
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: Yes. Every little bit helps.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We appreciate it because you've done a fantastic job. You've been great friends.
Native Americans have been hit hard by this terrible pandemic. Over 2,000 members of the Navajo Nation have really — I mean, it's been incredible what's taken place, and there's nothing we can say. But the coronavirus is tragically — as you just said, 70 people lost their lives.
The administration is deploying the full resources of the federal government to support and protect our Native American communities in this very grave time of need. And I know that — I think I can speak very strongly for Martha and for the governor: We're full hands on deck. And you're working very hard. I know that, Doug. Very, very hard. And even Department of Labor, it's — it's been — it's been working very hard with everybody that's in this room and everybody that's — that needs to be. Right?
Anything you'd have to say, by the way, Gene, while you're here? Please.
SECRETARY SCALIA: It's a pleasure to be here. It's wonderful being on the road again, as you know, Mr. President. And then great being in Arizona, which is such a spectacular state. And the Native American communities here are such a great part of the state and really our nation and our nation's heritage. So, it's so good to be here.
I know, Mr. President, you have an important announcement to make today about the additional things we're doing to help these tribal governments. And we're certainly doing all we can at the Labor Department to implement the legislation that you signed, that you got enacted so incredibly quickly. People forget: three weeks in March, three major pieces of legislation — with paid leave, with unemployment benefits, and with the Paycheck Protection Program — to put us in position to get going again. And now, Governor Ducey and I were just talking about it, we're reopening. And it's — it's a wonderful thing to see.
I think we're well positioned. And I think, Mr. President, with your leadership, we're going to get back to where we were. Just a few weeks ago, things were going so well. And we'll get there.
We had a nice conversation — the governor, the Vice President, the Second Lady, and I — a little while ago, talking about some of the things we're doing at the Department. I mentioned these dislocated worker grants that are made available also to tribal governments. So I urge you to look into that and see if we can help you with those, too.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And I'd like to introduce also, the governor, Stephen Lewis, who's been terrific and working with us very hard. Thank you very much, Stephen. That's fantastic. We appreciate it very much.
How is it going?
GOVERNOR LEWIS: Well, it's, you know, going to a point where we're trying to keep up above — beyond the curve as well. We're located just not far from here — our traditional lands and our reservation land base.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's Gila. Gila River.
GOVERNOR LEWIS: Gila River. Gila River, home to one of the flag raisers of — on Mount Suribachi. Ira Hayes.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. We very much appreciate this time, and I'm with some very good friends. We've been friends for a long time. And we're working together very closely.
I'm honored to be with you today to discuss the unprecedented actions my administration has taken to support our treasured Native American communities. Together, we're fighting for everybody, but we're fighting this horrible coronavirus. It's a tough opponent, but we're winning and we're starting to see our country come back. It's been a very exciting few days. We're starting to see it all come back.
We're improving the lives of Native American families and tribes more than any administration has done by far.
We're grateful to be joined by Governor Doug Ducey. And thank you very much, Doug, for being with us.
GOVERNOR DUCEY: Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Secretary Eugene Scalia. Thank you, Eugene.
SECRETARY SCALIA: My pleasure.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Senator Martha McSally, who's doing very well. I hear things are very good. You're doing great. Thank you, Martha.
Vice President of Naho- — Navajo Nation, Myron Liz- — Lizer. And — and, by the way, we appreciate it very much. And you know there is two ways of saying that name. They told me outside, but I always think of it as "Lezer." So how do you like it? How do you like it?
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: Lizer.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's what I thought. Okay. Thanks, Myron, very much. And Second Lady, thank you very much for being here. We really, really appreciate it.
The Navajo Nation has been very special to a lot of people. And it's certainly been very special to the state. And the relationship, Doug, I think is extraordinary, isn't it -
GOVERNOR DUCEY: (Inaudible.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: — when you get right down to it. So thank you very much and we very much appreciate it.
Native Americans have been hit hard by the terrible pandemic. Over 2,000 members of the Navajo Nation have tested positive for the coronavirus. And tragically, more than 70 have lost their lives.
How is it looking right now? How is it doing?
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: Well, the numbers are still rising. We're hoping it flattens. Our health professionals have said that the peak will be in mid-May. And it's kind of uncanny and it's fallen that — that way. So 2,400 infected; it was 73 that have succumbed. And that's too many.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's a lot. Mitigation-wise, you're doing what?
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: We have shut down the — enacted a 57-hour curfew over the weekend. Our people love to travel out to the border towns off the reservation.
Recently, the National Guard came in and shut down Gal- — under a new mayor leadership in Gallup, New Mexico. So they've been on lockdown for five, six days now. And so that's helped. But our people are readily going to other border towns, like
Flagstaff and Farmington, New Mexico. So I think the super majority are obeying and staying home.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: But what we're doing, you know, we're bringing these two — these are very hard to come by, because they're very popular. This is done by Abbott Laboratories. And we're bringing them for you. And these are the quick tests, and they're very accurate and very fast.
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: Yes.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So we're doing that. I think we have a thousand cartridges, too. A thousand for a thousand tests. So hopefully that'll be — that'll be helpful to you. Okay?
VICE PRESIDENT LIZER: Yes. Every little bit helps.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We appreciate it because you've done a fantastic job. You've been great friends.
Native Americans have been hit hard by this terrible pandemic. Over 2,000 members of the Navajo Nation have really — I mean, it's been incredible what's taken place, and there's nothing we can say. But the coronavirus is tragically — as you just said, 70 people lost their lives.
The administration is deploying the full resources of the federal government to support and protect our Native American communities in this very grave time of need. And I know that — I think I can speak very strongly for Martha and for the governor: We're full hands on deck. And you're working very hard. I know that, Doug. Very, very hard. And even Department of Labor, it's — it's been — it's been working very hard with everybody that's in this room and everybody that's — that needs to be. Right?
Anything you'd have to say, by the way, Gene, while you're here? Please.
SECRETARY SCALIA: It's a pleasure to be here. It's wonderful being on the road again, as you know, Mr. President. And then great being in Arizona, which is such a spectacular state. And the Native American communities here are such a great part of the state and really our nation and our nation's heritage. So, it's so good to be here.
I know, Mr. President, you have an important announcement to make today about the additional things we're doing to help these tribal governments. And we're certainly doing all we can at the Labor Department to implement the legislation that you signed, that you got enacted so incredibly quickly. People forget: three weeks in March, three major pieces of legislation — with paid leave, with unemployment benefits, and with the Paycheck Protection Program — to put us in position to get going again. And now, Governor Ducey and I were just talking about it, we're reopening. And it's — it's a wonderful thing to see.
I think we're well positioned. And I think, Mr. President, with your leadership, we're going to get back to where we were. Just a few weeks ago, things were going so well. And we'll get there.
We had a nice conversation — the governor, the Vice President, the Second Lady, and I — a little while ago, talking about some of the things we're doing at the Department. I mentioned these dislocated worker grants that are made available also to tribal governments. So I urge you to look into that and see if we can help you with those, too.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And I'd like to introduce also, the governor, Stephen Lewis, who's been terrific and working with us very hard. Thank you very much, Stephen. That's fantastic. We appreciate it very much.
How is it going?
GOVERNOR LEWIS: Well, it's, you know, going to a point where we're trying to keep up above — beyond the curve as well. We're located just not far from here — our traditional lands and our reservation land base.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's Gila. Gila River.
GOVERNOR LEWIS: Gila River. Gila River, home to one of the flag raisers of — on Mount Suribachi. Ira Hayes.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
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