You know, tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me, my illness won today. Look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me. All my love, tommy. So he didnt have anything in there about take some time off. And why usa usa . Usa why is america such an extraordinary country . We are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity or one ideology or one religion. We are unified by one constitution and one rule of law and in the values under our constitution. [applause] it is an aspiration, its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt be some kind of fetish document. It should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in the service of the common good. That is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. That is the constitution that we have been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. [crowd chanting] trump trump trump [applause] please raise your right hand and repeat after me, i donald j
i never thought the trump could turn out to be a good guy. i thought maybe all of this right-wing authoritarian populist stuff, all this mussolini stuff, which is fade away quickly when he got into office, that cooler heads would prevail, the conservative republican establishment would kind of take over and run things like a standard run-of-the-mill right-wing presidency. as opposed to an existential threat to constitutional democracy. [applause] donald trump today due to the rose garden to wave a white flag, a green two o reopen the government without funding for his border wall. i m proud to announce that we have reached a deal to end the shut down and reopen the federal government. i think he thought that he was going to practice extortion,