competition and driving the prices right down, but we are getting rid of the individual mandate because it was very unfair to a lot of people but at the same time we re covering the people that need it. but the individual mandate was a disaster because people that couldn t necessarily afford it were having to pay for the privilege of not having to pay for health care and it was bad health care at that. so we are working many plans with health care and creating tremendous competition. we had obamacare repealed and replaced. unfortunately, one person changed his mind at the last moment and we had no democrat support. i have to say that we didn t have one vote. we would have repealed it, replaced it. we would have had a large-scale very good health care plan. now we re doing it a different way. we re doing it a different way. but getting rid of the individual mandate is a very, very popular thing and a very important thing and people very much appreciate it. go ahead.
doing. so we can look at us, they can look at us. then we can look at them and it ll go back and forth and it ll probably be very good for me politically. i could see it being extremely good politically because i think i m better at that game than they are actually, but we ll find out. i mean, you know, we ll find out or we can work together. you can t do them simultaneous, by the way, oh, you can them. no, you can t. if they re doing that we re not doing the other just so you understand. so we won t be doing that, but now what happens is we send it to the senate and we ll get 100% democrat support and some republican support and if it s good i really believe we have republicans that will help with the approval process and they will really help with the approval process. so it really could be a beautiful bipartisan type of situation. if we won by one or two or three or four or five, that wouldn t happen and the closer it is, the
economy and, by the way, if that administration through somebody else kept going, you would have had negative 4.2 instead of positive 4.2% growth. you would have had negative. it was heading down but the point is this, excuse me, i would love to see unity including with the media because i think the media i ll be honest, i think it s a very divisive thick for our country. and you would be amazed at how smart people are that are reading the stories and seeing your stories and watching, you d be amazed how perceptive and how smart they are. they get it. and it really does bring disunity. i didn t excuse me. you are not you are not called on. go ahead. go ahead. go ahead, please. thank you, president trump. shortly after your victory speech on the night back in november 2016 i asked you to
we must all work together to protect our military. we have to do that. to support our law enforcement, secure our borders and advance really great position including environmental policy. we want crystal clean water, we want beautiful perfect air. air and water has to be perfect. at the same time we don t want to put ourselves at a disadvantage to other countries who are very competitive with us and who don t abide by the rules at all. we don t want to hurt other jobs. we don t want to hurt our factories. we don t want companies leaving. we want to be totally competitive and we are and right now we have just about the cleanest air, the cleanest water we ve ever had and it s always going to be that way. we insist on it. so environmental is very important to me and with that i ll take a few questions if you d like. whoa. i didn t know what happened. all right.
[ laughter ] it s quite exhausting. but i love doing it and i ll tell you, there will be changes. nothing monumental from that standpoint. i don t think very much different than most administrations and we have i mean we have many people lined up for every single position. any position, everybody wants to work in this white house. we are a hot country. this is a hot white house. we are a white house that people want to work with. okay. no, no. please, behind you. behind you. go ahead. mr. president, this has been a very challenging campaign. this has been a very challenging campaign. it has. it has involved quite a lot of abuse and a lot of violence. people have died during the course of this campaign. is there any way in which you think the temperature could be lowered, perhaps peace could break out with the media, perhaps your bipartisan relationships across the house and the senate may now produce some change or are we going to have more of the same. it s a very fair quest