President Trump took the stage at Clemson University on Wednesday night and laid out the numbers that define his Golden Age. “Income for hard-working Americans has soared to the highest level ever recorded,” the President told a packed South Carolina crowd. “And more Americans are working today than at any time in the history of the country. I’m just giving you the facts that just came out.”
Then came the number that stopped the arena. “The poverty rate has just reached its best level in American history,” Trump said, adding that African American, Hispanic American, Native American and Asian American poverty rates “are at their best levels ever recorded. Think of it. So every group.”
Trump also took aim at the old Washington claim that America’s factory days were over. Recalling Barack Obama’s line that this is “not a manufacturing country,” the President answered with one fact: “Exports have just soared to the highest level in American history, okay, so much for that.”
The President reminded the crowd how far the country has come in less than two years. “Our country was a dead country. You know that, we were dying,” he said. “I’ve had many, many meetings with leaders. They looked at me, they said, you know, your country, we thought it was a dead country. Now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. We’re the hottest country in the world right now.”
The Clemson stop caps a run of Carolinas rallies as President Trump campaigns for Republicans ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. Early voting in South Carolina is already underway, and the message from the Upstate was clear: record paychecks, record jobs and record-low poverty are what America First delivers.
