travel report 7 — Trump remarks over

Trump spoke for 15 minutes, getting his most applause when he said the retired A-10s would be replaced with F-15s.

“As Commander in Chief, I'm proud to announce that very soon we will replace the retiring a 10 warthogs with 21 brand new F-15 Eagles.”

He spoke about how much military enlistment numbers have increased and how bad President Biden was, claiming he did not care about National Guard units.

Spoke about his “golden dome” missile defense shield, about how fast he defeated ISIS and how he won Michigan in his elections.

He turned over the lectern to Hegseth at 1645, who spoke for less than two minutes. He was followed by Whitmer. She spoke for less than a minute.

At 1450 the local officials had finished thanking Trump and the pool was led out to the press vans.

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S.V. D�te

White House correspondent

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