thank you very much
thank you everybody
thank you we've had a tremendous week
uniting the
country in our fight against the china
virus i've
reminded people of the importance of
masks
when you can't socially distance in
particular
a strong message has been sent out to
young people to stop going to
crowded bars and other crowded places
yesterday we made the amazing
announcement
for our plans to protect nursing home
residents we're
working very hard on that we're doing
very well all over the country
and also about contracting with
uh pfizer we made a big big beautiful
contract with pfizer we think they're
very close but we have
a lot of companies that are very close
to produce a vaccine and i wanted to
come out again today to share
some additional news with you this
afternoon my political team came to me
and laid out
our plans for the convention in
jacksonville florida
it's a place i love i love that state
the drawings look absolutely beautiful i
never thought we could have something
look
so good so fast with everything going on
and everything was going well the
tremendous list of speakers
thousands of people wanting to
be there and i mean in some cases
desperately be there
they wanted to attend people making
travel arrangements all over the country
they wanted to be there
the pageantry the signs the excitement
were really really
top of the line but i looked at my team
and i said
the timing for this event is not right
it's just not right with what's happened
recently the flare up in florida
to have a big convention it's not the
right time
it's really something that for me
i have to protect the american people
that's what i've always done that's what
i always
will do that's what i'm about they said
sir we can make this work very easily
we have great enthusiasm incredible
enthusiasm
even the polls say about the most
enthusiasm they've seen
we can do this safely and we can do it
responsibly i said there's
nothing more important in our country
than keeping our people safe
whether that's from the china virus or
the radical left mob
that you see in portland where i want to
thank
homeland security and others in law
enforcement for doing a fantastic job
over the last few days they went in
and people were out of control for 51
days a long time and homeland security
and
other law enforcement with us went in
and they've done a great job
in protecting our property federal
courthouse and
other property and uh most importantly
protecting our people
or the senseless violence that you see
in chicago or new york or
detroit a lot of other cities where so
many people are shot
and so many people are killed and
people elected me to help and to protect
so i told my team it's time to cancel
the jacksonville florida component of
the
gop convention will be starting in north
carolina for the monday as
has always been planned we were never
taking that off that's remaining as it
is the delegates are going to get
together that's
where they do their nomination so the
delegates are
going to north carolina and they'll be
doing
the nomination and we're going to do
some other things with
teller rallies and online the week that
we're discussing which will be
really good i think we're going to do it
well and i'll
still do a convention speech in a
different form
but we won't do a big crowded convention
per se it's just not the right time for
that
i care deeply about the people of
florida and everywhere else frankly in
this country
and even in the world who would be
coming into the state
and i don't want to do anything to upset
it they'll be
doing very well very shortly we're going
to put some
maps up of the country behind me and
you'll
see that uh the area that we're talking
about is
a hot spot you'll also see a lot of the
country is
uh has has no problem whatsoever most of
the country actually
so i'm always going to take care of you
so that
that's the way we're going to do it i've
spoken to
governor desantis and informed other
political leaders i want to
thank the jacksonville
community and it's great mayor he's
great great guy
really great guy they wanted it so badly
and
all of the other political
representatives in jacksonville and in
florida
and just very special people a very
special group
and they were there for us a hundred
percent
today i want to provide an update on the
actions we're taking to support the safe
reopening of america's schools
parents around the world who have had
their children home
for the last few months of a greater
appreciation for the fact
that teachers are essential workers that
they're essential to our
children's future our goal is to protect
our teachers and students from the china
virus
while ensuring that families with high
risk factors can continue to participate
from home very important the american
academy of
pediatrics has released guidance
recommending that
schools reopen it said quote
lengthy time away from school and
associated
interruption of supportive services
often results in a
social isolation making it difficult for
schools to identify
and address important learning deficits
as well as
child and adolescent physical and sexual
abuse
substance abuse depression and suicidal
ideation this in turn places children
and adolescents
at considerable risk of morbidity and of
some cases mortality beyond the
educational impact and social impact of
school closures
there's been a substantial impact on
food security and physical activity for
children and for
families so that's very important
and there's a highway it goes both ways
the national education association
recently stated despite
the momentous efforts of educators
during the pandemic online learning has
never been
an effective replacement for in-person
learning
and support being at the school being on
the campus is very
very important one study estimates that
due to
school closures last spring the average
student will begin
the school year roughly 35 percent
behind in
reading compared to the typical year and
more than 50 percent behind
in math that's a big statement according
to
mckinsey and company learning loss will
probably be
greatest among low-income black and
hispanic
students they're the ones that are hit
the hardest we don't want that happening
30 million american students rely on
schools for free and reduced meals
over 70 percent of the students who
receive mental health services do so
through their schools
according to hhs one in five reports
allegedly
having to do with child abuse they
have neglect and these are neglect and
neglected cases are submitted
by education personnel so
people in the education world on the
premises
will be the ones that report neglect
and other problems when they see the
children they know if they've been
neglected they know if they've been hurt
or harmed in any way
whether it's at home or someplace else
but they see this at school you don't
get to see that if you're not going to
school it's a big thing
fortunately the data shows the children
are lower risk from the china virus very
substantially
when children do contact the virus they
often have only
very mild symptoms or none at all
and medical complications are
exceedingly rare
those that do face complications often
have underlying
medical conditions 99
of all china virus hospitalizations
are adults and 99.96
of all fatalities are adults that means
that
children are a tiny percentage less than
one percent and even a small percentage
of one percent
in a typical year the flu results in
more deaths
of those under 18 in the united states
than have been
lost thus far to the coronavirus
many different names many many different
names
the life of every child is sacred and
must be protected
our sole focus is the health and
well-being of america's
children i have a very very special
person who loves children who's
who's uh i think one of the greatest
athletes of all time
a lot of people say the greatest pitcher
of all time
known as a relief pitcher could have
been whatever he wanted some people
he is the greatest reliever of all time
by far substantially more saves than
anybody else in fact
he got the presidential medal of freedom
recently
and uh he uh i'm reading off these stats
i knew he was the best i knew he was
great but i didn't know it was almost
double anybody else
but he's a man who loves children has
children loves children
works hard with children we're going to
go outside and be with some little
leaguers
rivera you know he's the sandman right
my wife said
darling why do they call him the sandman
i said you know
they play the song he just puts the
batters to sleep and that's exactly what
happened
so uh having mariano here is a great
honor thank you very much was talking
about children in schools
and uh there's nobody that's done more
than you have thank you very much
mariano
fantastic man given these considerations
we believe many
school districts can now reopen safely
provided they implement mitigation
measures and health
protocols to protect families protect
teachers and to protect students and we
do have to protect
the teachers and the families also we
have to remember that all families
should be empowered to make the decision
that is right for their own
circumstance this is especially
important if a child has underlying
health conditions or
lives with a parent or grandparent who's
at higher risk
in cities or states that are
current hot spots and you'll see that in
the map behind me
districts may need to delay reopening
for
a few weeks and that's possible that'll
be up to governors
the decision should be made based on the
data and
the facts on the grounds in each
community but every
district should be actively making
preparations to open
again the children obviously have a very
strong
immune system maybe even as strong as
yours
they seem to be able to fight it off and
not have a problem
so it's pretty amazing actually great
great credit
our strategy to safely reopen schools
mirrors our approach nationwide as we
race toward the
completion of a vaccine and therapeutics
the responsible path is to shelter those
at highest risk
while allowing those at lower risk much
lower in the case of
young children to resume work at school
and
as long as everyone practices vigilant
hygiene and social distancing we want
that
a permanent shutdown was never the
strategy which would ultimately lead to
greater mortality and irreversible harms
we don't want to do that
at the same time we have to get our
economy going we had tremendous numbers
issued yesterday housing prices pricing
of
housing up 21 the highest in history
it's the highest number in history real
estate housing
went up 21 today the cdc will provide
additional guidance for how schools can
reopen safely
i hope that local leaders put the full
health and well-being of their students
first
and to make the right decision for
children parents teachers and not make
political decisions this isn't about
politics it's about something
very very important this is not about
politics
i even think it's bad politics if you do
the wrong decision very bad politics
we're asking congress to provide
105 billion dollars to schools as part
of the next coronavirus
relief bill this funding will support
mitigation measures such as smaller
class sizes more teachers and teacher
aids
repurposing spaces to practice social
distancing and crucially
mask wearing this money is in addition
to the 30 billion dollars we secured for
schools and universities earlier this
year
that money we have some is distributed
and some is not distributed
if schools do not reopen the funding
should go to parents to send their
child to public private charter
religious or
home school of their choice the key word
being choice
if the school is closed the money should
follow the student
so the parents and families are in
control of their own decisions so we'd
like the money to go to the
parents of the student this way they can
make the decision that's best for them
we cannot indefinitely stop 50 million
american children from going to school
harming their mental physical and
emotional
development reopening our schools is
also critical to ensuring that parents
can go to work
and provide for their families the
council of economic advisers estimates
that 5.6 million parents will be unable
to return to work
if schools do not reopen this year
it's a tremendous problem it's a
tremendous problem
schools have to open safely but they
have to open
more than a dozen european countries as
well as south korea taiwan and many
others
have already reopened schools and cases
have not risen
we can achieve the same goal if we unite
together
follow the best medical practices and
apply
common sense we'll continue to support
states and cities in the current hot
spots
in the south south west and west
the governors i know i'm all they're all
very very capable they're doing a very
good job they're working
so hard you wouldn't even believe it we
have nearly thirty thousand
federal personnel deployed in the states
that need assistance we're helping with
doctors and nurses
medical personnel of all kinds
as a ppe update we're in close
communication with governors and states
we have supplies everything they could
possibly need we're very strong in
supplies remember i used to say the
cupboards were bare well now the
cupboards are the opposite
due to our historic efforts to increase
both the national stockpile and the
state stockpiles the vast majority of
the states have 60 days worth of
supplies on hand
and most importantly they have
ventilators because the ventilators are
very very hard to come by at least in
the past now we're making thousands of
ventilators a month
and supplying them in many cases to
other countries
for states that are making requests
we're rapidly delivering
in the last 24 hours fema has deployed
more than
1.5 million masks upon request
1.7 million gallons and 600 000
well let me change that we've created
about 600 000 different supplies we have
600 ventilators
to arizona north carolina pennsylvania
colorado idaho and washington i think
the number is
600 we're going to check that it will
give it to you in a little while but
we've
we've got a stockpile of thousands of
ventilators
i think we've sent out about 600 just
recently
the united states has now conducted more
than
51 million tests which is more than
any other country in the world by far
roughly half of the tests are either the
rapid point of care test which frankly
solves a lot of problem and delay five
to 15 minutes instead of waiting
for service both ways in both directions
and then at the lab
but roughly half of them now which is a
tremendous
increase are five to 15 minute tests or
tests done in a hospital
where you get the results back in less
than a day
some cases immediately we're continuing
to
surge testing to current hot spots such
as miami and phoenix to
detect those with the virus and take
steps to stop
from spreading it further this is a copy
of the
map and this is uh you have it right
behind me that's
really very much indicating where the
problems are
you see from from that it's in great
shape
lots of it the northeast has become
very clean the country is in very good
shape other than if you look south and
west some problems that'll all work out
on therapies we've worked with florida
to ensure that
over forty thousand vials of redesvere
are arriving this week
it's a lot that's a really that's a lot
they're working round the clock to
make it it's had a tremendous impact
we've also shipped thousands of vials to
arizona california and texas over the
past two weeks
arizona is doing very well it's heading
down numbers are heading down
i think very quickly governor's done a
great job they've all done a great job
they've all done a great job
working hard we'll continue to monitor
the areas rising
and with respect to cases and we ask all
americans to exercise
vigilance practice social distancing
wear a mask
do whatever is necessary so we get rid
of this horrible
situation this horrible disease that was
sent to us by china
it should not have been sent they should
have stopped it they could have stopped
it they didn't
and the entire world has gotten infected
and a lot of countries are going
through a lot right now this morning i
spoke with
president putin of russia and they're
going through a very hard time with this
in moscow in particular i spoke to
the crown prince saudi arabia
they're doing well but they're going
through a lot everybody's going through
a lot yesterday
i spoke to the heads of four different
countries
all four are going through a lot going
through a hard time
this could have been stopped it could
have been stopped quickly and easily but
for some reason it wasn't
and we'll figure out what that reason
was so with that if you have any
questions please
on the convention were you simply not
convinced that you could keep people
safe at the convention i just felt it
was wrong steve
to have people going to what turned out
to be a hot spot you know when we chose
it
it was not at all hot it was free and
all of a sudden it happened quickly it
happens quickly and it goes away and it
goes away quickly
the key is we wanted to go away without
a lot of death
without a lot of problems and we're
learning so much about
the disease that's why we're we're very
cognizant of nursing homes we're
watching them very carefully and people
over a certain age
and especially people over a certain age
with diabetes or
or heart disease in particular but with
a problem
so uh we didn't want to take any chances
so we had a lot of people we have
the delegates want to be there we're
going to do a
fairly reasonably quick meeting in north
carolina the nomination will be produced
and then we'll announce what we're doing
how we're doing it whether it's
something that's done online i guess you
could call it online
so uh there can nothing there could be
nothing like our last convention
unfortunately that was a great
convention and
in a great place as you know we had a we
had a great time
great time in cleveland but um it's a
different world and it will be for a
little while we want to get the world
back
to what it was and i think we'll have
that including
great job numbers uh including so many
things that are happening so positive i
have to say the
stock market is close to records for
nasdaq
it is a record it's already exceeded its
highest numbers
uh but we want to get our country back
to what it was
acceptance speech being from the white
house are you worried we haven't said
that yet see we'll have that
we'll probably announce that over the
next few days this might dampen
enthusiasm for you
look we've done a great job we built the
greatest economy in the world
no nobody close not china not anybody
we had to close it we saved millions of
lives and we opened it but we had the
best numbers in history for
african americans hispanic americans
asian americans
every group you want to name young
people without a diploma young people
with a high school diploma with a
college diploma anything you want to
name we had the best numbers
women doing incredibly never never been
a time like that
and we had to turn it off because of
what china did
we had to turn it off and then
all of a sudden uh now we turn it back
on and
we're doing very well but it was a very
bad china speaking about china the trade
deal
means less to me now than it did when i
made it when i made it was a great deal
but they're they're setting records
yesterday was a record corn day they
purchased more corn than any order ever
and that went on for two or three days
and
soybeans and all but it just means much
less to me can you understand that
just means much less to me please go
ahead thank you what was the one thing
if there was one thing that changed your
mind about the convention
and did florida officials ask you to
cancel it
no they didn't we're dealing with them
but they didn't i would just say safety
just safety i just you know i could see
uh
the media saying oh this is very unsafe
this is i don't want to be in that
position it's safety
not because of the media but that's what
they would say and
uh we'll have a very nice something
we'll figure it out it'll be
it'll be online in some form maybe it'll
be something even a little bit different
we have time you know we're talking
about the end
of august but uh i think it'll be
something that will be
exciting but there can be nothing like
having
25 000 people we had a tremendous thing
planned and
a tremendous convention planned in north
carolina
and it would have been very good but a
much smaller version in florida
but then we saw what was happening
pretty quickly we saw that
that the virus was coming up that coast
so the severity of the situation in
florida
no i think it's going to uh come and go
it will i mean you take a look at some
of these locations
were heavily infected i mean to a point
where
deborah and i were talking that you know
we when you look at
what happened in new york and what
happened in new jersey and other places
and now you're looking and uh it's
gone hope it stays gone i think we i
think it will but
we had to be we had to be we have to be
vigilant we have to be careful
and we also have to set an example i
think setting the example is very
important
uh it's hard for us to say we're going
to have a lot of people packed in a room
and then
other people shouldn't do it don't
forget we're talking about schools
and we want them to be vigilant and
we're saying open
and then we're saying here you have a
big room but i also if you notice
i said where bars are crowded where
other things are crowded well there's
nothing more crowded than a convention a
convention i mean you've seen them
and even though you try and keep people
away from each other it's just not that
kind of a thing they probably
can't do that it just doesn't work for
them so it's a very hard so i think
we're setting an example by doing it is
very important
yeah john mr president if i could come
back to school
openings you talked about money that
congress is looking at to help schools
who want to reopen if school wants to
reopen but is concerned about
testing would you consider directing
some of that money toward testing for
either a school district or even
individual schools
if that's what it took to open the
schools yeah i think so
i mean a lot of people feel differently
about
testing we talk about it a lot when we
have
50 million tests plus and you know we br
we broke the 50 million test mark
second in the world is india which has
1.4 billion people
and they had 12 million tests and other
countries
that are very big had two million tests
and some countries essentially only test
if you're sick and walk into a hospital
walk into a doctor's office or
you're literally really sick they
essentially don't do tests unless you're
sick
and i understand that too so yeah if
they feel that that's what they want
it's that would be fine you would tell
congress you would encourage congress to
pay for testing
i would if they want again we've done 50
million tests
there's nobody even close in the whole
world you look at our mortality rate you
look at our death rate you look at
different statistics we're doing very
well
but one death is too many this should
never have happened this should never
have been allowed to happen
from china also mitch mcconnell's office
uh just put out a statement a moment ago
about
the phase four relief package cares ii
saying quote it's tailored precisely for
this phase of the crisis
yet it does not include your payroll tax
cut so do you believe it's pretty much
i'd like to see a payroll tax cut i
think it's great for the workers the
democrats would never have gone for it
they don't want it they're not big into
the workers i guess
and based on that i told them last night
i told the republicans who have been
working very hard on this i'll tell you
and they want what's right for the
country
and hopefully the democrats ultimately
will but i said i think a payroll tax
will be good but you're not going to get
it from the democrats we need their
votes as you know
it's not like you know we have a
majority but it's not enough that we
that's why i guess we have an election
coming up so you still need democrat
votes and we're not going to get the
democrat votes on that
so i'd like to see it i think would be
very good for the workers but
if we're not going to get their votes i
guess we have to go on to the next thing
a payroll tax cut would have been very
good and maybe uh
maybe something happens uh yes please
um you talk about setting an example on
jacksonville but i just wonder some
people are going to take away from this
the lesson
that you're pushing too far too fast it
seemed for a while the numbers were
going up in jacksonville and you're
going to have a problem now
this comes up at a time you're pushing
for schools to reopen we have the
opening of the
major league baseball season isn't isn't
the example of jacksonville that we're
pushing too
fast well baseball as an example we were
discussing it a little while ago you're
going to be at a
empty stadium i've agreed randy levine's
a great friend of mine from the yankees
he asked me to throw out the first pitch
and i think i'm doing that on august
15th at yankee stadium
and i say how's the crowd going to be
and uh you know
it's like you don't have a crowd there
is no such thing it's going to be
interesting mariano he's not used to
that i've been at many games he walks in
the place goes crazy
uh i think you'd be just as good without
the crowd you were just born with it you
know some people are born with it
i don't know if this is only for the
baseball players but i've never seen a
picture throw a ball
where so many bats were broken as
mariano he's got the
all-time record i said how do you do
that he said parents
great parents when you get right down to
it right how do you do that it's called
parents
but but uh yeah i just just to finish i
think
i think that we have to all set examples
i think major league baseball is setting
an example by
you know playing to empty stadiums and
so are other sports you see that
now then they'll allow a certain number
in i see golf is now
soon we'll be allowing people to come in
and percentages and all of a sudden
we want to get back to normal the key is
to get back to normal because
nobody wants to see this but i think
it's really good that baseball's opening
it looks like football is opening
it looks like sports are opening we we
have it's a tremendous thing
psychologically for our country
and uh we're all we're all with it we'll
see
we're going to see right now some
beautiful young
little leaguers outside with a great
future ahead of them
they're already practicing on the front
lawn of the white house
and we're going to go out and say hello
to them and it'll be really great okay
how about one more
yeah please go ahead president trump um
the washington post earlier today
reported that one thing holding up the
gop coronavirus bill
is the white house asking that it
include language regarding the fbi
building in downtown washington dc is
that true
i don't know that they're putting it in
this bill but i know they want to have a
new fbi building this one is very
old and uh it's really was never built
to a very high standard as you probably
have heard and it's got a lot of danger
involved and
panels falling off the outside and
pieces of concrete falling off the
building
and they want to build it at the site
that they have it
they had options very far away from
washington
and i said to him frankly you have to be
near the justice department there's
nothing better than the site the site
they have now is better
but they were looking in sites in
maryland and virginia in different
places
but they would have been too far away so
i am i have been encouraging them to
build it and if you're going to you have
a choice you can renovate the existing
building but it's not a good
building or you could take it down and
build a great building for the fbi for
100 years and have it be incredible even
with tracks on top they're talking about
you know we have because
fbi people like to work out a lot and
you could have literally uh
quarter mile tracks on top it's a very
big site very wide side
so i think the idea the best idea would
be to build a new building and that way
you have it for a long time renovation
can never be as good as a new building
in that case
i know they're talking about it whether
or not they put it in this bill or
someplace else but
the fbi needs a new building and we'll
get it done thank you all very much
thank you thank you very much