and we re also the party of abraham lincoln. we can t forget that. people forget. abraham lincoln. honest abe. to lift up distressed communities, we created opportunity zones. so incredible. so successful. including 100 new opportunity zones right now in mississippi where money is now flowing in to build and to fix and tim scott i give him so much credit. from the great state of south carolina. we passed v.a. choice and v.a. accountability on behalf of our great veterans. people said it couldn t be done. v.a. choice. our veterans were waiting on line for days and weeks sometimes. now they can go out choice. they can go out. get a doctor. we pay the bill and they don t have to wait six weeks, four weeks, two weeks.
we were the sucker country for years and years, but we are not the sucker country any more and they all know it. we re replacing nafta and that was a disaster, nafta. with the brand new u.s.-mexico-canada agreement if nancy pelosi will ever put it up to a vote, which is questionable. nervous nancy. she doesn t want to give the people of our country a victory. she s very busy doing other things. having fun. the usmca will be a massive victory for mississippi s farmers and also includes powerful protections for mississippi auto workers, manufacturers and everybody else. [cheers and applause] it s a great agreement. about time we got rid of nafta. the do-nothing democrats need to stop their madness and pass the usmca right now.
we re the hottest economy in the world. we ve created over 6.7 million new jobs since the election. if i would have said during the campaign that i would create 6.7 million new jobs since the election, these people would have gone crazy. they would have said horrible things. they would have said it s impossible. unemployment has reached the lowest rate in over 51 years. soon to be historic. african-american unemployment just dropped to the lowest rate ever recorded. historic. [applause] really unimportant me. the african-american youth unemployment rate is the lowest ever recorded in the history of our country. we lifted 55,000 mississippi
residents out of poverty. 55,000. hourly earnings are up 9% in mississippi since the election. under the previous two administrations, we lost 60,000 factories in our country. under my administration, we have already added nearly 10,000 new factories and many more are coming in as we speak. to get relief to working families, we passed massive tax cuts, on average 2,000 to $2,500 per family. bringing almost $1 trillion back home to our shores. what s happening, you couldn t get the money. the big companies couldn t get their money back. both bureaucratically and from a
thank you, mr. president. mississippi welcomes you because mississippi is donald j. trump country. we gave you almost 60% of the vote in 2016. and next year, we re going to do even better. and the reason is because president trump is a strong leader. he is the right leader to defeat the radical liberals who have taken over the democrat party. these ladical liberals have been trying to remove our president from office since the very day he was sworn in.