From Trump’s ABC interview that nobody watched. This was in response to George Stephanopoulos’ observation that the national debt is going up on Trump’s watch.
But I have to rebuild the military. They doubled the debt, and they didn’t do anything. They doubled the debt on nonsense. I took over a military that was totally depleted. I have to rebuild it. The good news, we’re rebuilding it here. We’re building America. Everything’s made in the U.S.A., and it’s great. But I– you know, it’s one of those things. I have to rebuild the military. Otherwise, I mean, what’s more important– than our military? Especially in these days where you have such problems. And I think the stronger we are, the less likely it is that we use the military. We’re close to being very, very strong. We’re close to being stronger by far than ever before. But I took over a totally depleted military. And you know that. The planes were old. They talk about the grandchildren of pilots were flying the same plane as they were flying many years ago. We have beautiful new F-35s and F-18s and new– rifles, new uniforms. In the case of the Army, we have the new uniforms that everybody’s wanted for years. They’re an expensive– job. You know, you– it doesn’t sound it, but it is. And– we have– we have spent a tremendous amount of money on our military. And we did the right thing because we had to rebuild our military. It was totally– it was in very bad shape. And you can see that when the military sees me. I fixed the vets. The vets– the VA was in horrible shape. Now, they have choice. And nobody could get choice. John McCain couldn’t get it. Nobody could get it. They tried for years. They couldn’t get it. I got choice for the vets so that now instead of waiting in line for many, many weeks in some– you know, in some cases they would wait for months to see a doctor. They died from waiting in line. Now, our vets have choice where they can go out, get a doctor, and we pay for the doctor. And it’s–
