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WASHINGTONUntil his speech on Thursday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump had not made any public remarks all week.

He had a lot to say. And most of it was false, strange, outlandish or confusing.

The speech, to Ohio workers, was supposed to be about infrastructure, but we know by now that Trumps supposed infrastructure events are almost never actually about infrastructure. As usual, he meandered freely to make dramatic statements about the Middle East and the Koreas, to disparage Hillary Clinton, to declare his ignorance of what a community college is, and, eventually, to express excitement about the ratings of the sitcom Roseanne.

Heres what happened:

2:09 p.m. Trump begins with a reference to his election victory: What a group. Remember, you cant win unless you win the state of Ohio, right?

2:13 p.m. Trump says of Democrats: They want people to come in from the border, and they want, I guess, want, I cant imagine they want, but certainly drugs are flowing across borders. We need walls.

2:14 p.m. Trump falsely claims that a California project to replace a section of existing border wall a project proposed in 2009 and entirely separate from his own proposed new wall is indeed his own wall project. And then he brags about how this wall is a high-quality wall because of his own talents as a builder.

We started building our wall. Im so proud of it. We started. We started. We have $1.6 billion. And weve already started. You saw the pictures yesterday, and I said what a thing of beauty. And on September 28 we go further. And were gettin that sucker built. And you think thats easy? People said, Oh, has he given up on the wall? Nah, I never give up. I never And you saw those beautiful pictures, and the wall looks good. Its properly designed. Thats what I do is I build. I was always very good at building. It was always my best thing.

2:16 p.m. Trump says the U.S. has been treated better on trade by its enemies than its allies: Frankly our friends did more damage to us than our enemies. Because we didnt deal with our enemies, we dealt with our friends, and we dealt incompetently.

2:16 p.m. That was a Hillary Clinton special, I hate to say it, Trump says of the existing free trade agreement with South Korea, which was negotiated by the George W. Bush administration and then revised by the Obama administration.

2:18 p.m. One day after his administration boasted of the successful completion of a revised trade agreement with South Korea, Trump says, I may hold it up til after a deal is made with North Korea.

Does everybody understand that? You know why, right? You know why? Because its a very strong card, and I want to make sure everyone is treated fairly and were moving along very nicely with North Korea. Well see what happens.

2:19 p.m. Trump says the media the fake news would have accused him of exaggerating if he had claimed three million jobs would be created between Election Day and today. In fact, slightly more jobs were created over the previous 16-month period, under Obama.

2:21 p.m. Trump makes his midterm election pitch, telling voters that they cannot afford to jeopardize the strong economy by voting for Democrats. You know the expression from, I guess it was, Bill Clinton: its the economy, stupid? Well, it is the economy.

2:24 p.m. Trump falsely claims, We got rid of the bump stocks. The bump stocks now are under very strict control. His administrations proposed ban on the firearm device has not been finalized; it will be accepting public comments on the proposal until June 27. Then he falsely claims, Nobody reported it. It doesnt get reported.
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