President Donald Trump turned a Coast Guard commencement into a media-bashing exercise on Wednesday as he returned fire on news outlets accusing him of sharing classified information and interfering in an FBI investigation.
'No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly,' Trump protested. 'You can't let them get you down. You can't let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams,' the president said.
He then boasted about his border wall, the 'great healthcare' bill his party is working on and the large tax cuts he's been promising, having earlier bragged that aircraft carriers would be built 'under budget and ahead of schedule' in his administration.
'No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly,' Trump protested. 'You can't let them get you down. You can't let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams,' the president said.
He then boasted about his border wall, the 'great healthcare' bill his party is working on and the large tax cuts he's been promising, having earlier bragged that aircraft carriers would be built 'under budget and ahead of schedule' in his administration.
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President Donald Trump turned a Coast Guard commencement into a media bashing exercise on Wednesday as he returned fire on news outlets that accused him of sharing classified information and interfering in an FBI investigation
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'You can't let them get you down. You can't let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams,' the president said
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Trump also teased a Coast Guard meter maid who gave tickets to his fellow cadets and booted their cars in his address. Trump had the cadet, Bruce Kim, stand so he could absolve him
Trump was delivering this year's Coast Guard commencement address in New London, Connecticut.
In between congratulating the graduating class and talking up the military division, Trump bragged about his own administration and defended himself from the arrows he's been taking this week for his conduct.
A Washington Post story that broke early Monday evening said Trump shared highly classified information with the Russians. A New York Times story said Tuesday that the source of the material was Israel.
Another Times story that came out yesterday contained sections of a memo that fired FBI Director James Comey is said to have written after a February 14 meeting with Trump.
Comey said, according to the memo that a source read aloud to the Times, that Trump tried to waive him off of an investigation into Mike Flynn, the national security advisor he'd just fired.
The White House denied Tuesday evening that such a conversation had happened.
It spent much of Tuesday explaining Trump's Oval Office conversation with the Russians. Trump is said to have shared top secret information with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Russia's ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kisylak.
Trump hit back at his accusers Wednesday at the Coast Guard function.
'I want to take this opportunity to give you some advice. Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair. You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted,' he said.
'But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight! Never, ever, ever give up. Things will work out just fine. Look at the way I've been treated lately, especially by the media,' he stated.
Trump also teased a Coast Guard meter maid who gave tickets to his fellow cadets and booted their cars in his address.
Noting that there had been 'slip ups' in their ranks, Trump said, 'Ahh, Bruce how do you do this to yourself, Bruce?'
'Bruce, what's going on with you,' he said, razzing the cadet, who he identified as Bruce Kim.
Trump told the graduating class that they would have a 'clean slate in life' moving forward - 'that includes Bruce, right?'
In keeping with a graduation tradition, Trump absolved the cadets for minor offenses.
'They saved you Bruce, because they all wanted me to do that,' Trump said, telling the young man to stand. 'By the way Bruce, that's a tradition, I was forced to do that, don't worry!'
In between congratulating the graduating class and talking up the military division, Trump bragged about his own administration and defended himself from the arrows he's been taking this week for his conduct.
A Washington Post story that broke early Monday evening said Trump shared highly classified information with the Russians. A New York Times story said Tuesday that the source of the material was Israel.
Another Times story that came out yesterday contained sections of a memo that fired FBI Director James Comey is said to have written after a February 14 meeting with Trump.
Comey said, according to the memo that a source read aloud to the Times, that Trump tried to waive him off of an investigation into Mike Flynn, the national security advisor he'd just fired.
The White House denied Tuesday evening that such a conversation had happened.
It spent much of Tuesday explaining Trump's Oval Office conversation with the Russians. Trump is said to have shared top secret information with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Russia's ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kisylak.
Trump hit back at his accusers Wednesday at the Coast Guard function.
'I want to take this opportunity to give you some advice. Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair. You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted,' he said.
'But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight! Never, ever, ever give up. Things will work out just fine. Look at the way I've been treated lately, especially by the media,' he stated.
Trump also teased a Coast Guard meter maid who gave tickets to his fellow cadets and booted their cars in his address.
Noting that there had been 'slip ups' in their ranks, Trump said, 'Ahh, Bruce how do you do this to yourself, Bruce?'
'Bruce, what's going on with you,' he said, razzing the cadet, who he identified as Bruce Kim.
Trump told the graduating class that they would have a 'clean slate in life' moving forward - 'that includes Bruce, right?'
In keeping with a graduation tradition, Trump absolved the cadets for minor offenses.
'They saved you Bruce, because they all wanted me to do that,' Trump said, telling the young man to stand. 'By the way Bruce, that's a tradition, I was forced to do that, don't worry!'
Lol, Kennedy and Lincoln were unavailable for comment...
[h=1]“No politician in history… has been treated worse or more unfairly." [/h]Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpAn 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud.
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