In Town Pool Note #23 - Some Toplines from the dinner

President Trump delivered remarks at the American Cornerstone Institute Founder's Dinner

He was introduced by the organization's founder Dr. Ben Carson, POTUS' former Housing Urban and Development Secretary during his first term.

A few topline items from POTUS' remarks

POTUS congratulated WH Chief of staff Susie Wiles for winning this year's ACI Founders Award.

"Susie the first female White House Chief of Staff, that's really surprising. I thought there'd be like a few more, but it's in history.

"She's the first. She's also the best. I will tell you that she's the best. She makes problems go away...You know, she's most powerful woman anywhere in the world."

Big announcement coming on autism on Monday

"And I think it's going to be a very important announcement. I think it's going to be one of the most important things that we will do, because what's happened with autism? You know that if you go back 15 years, 15 years, maybe a little bit longer, it was one in 10,000 children had autism.

"Bobby told me, it's hard to believe that this is correct, that as of recently, it was one in 10 boys. Is that pretty Correct? Marty and ours, one in 10, one in 12. One in 12."

"Think of it, one in 10,000 before that was one in 20,000 but it was one in 10,000 let's say. 1617, years ago, and now it's one in 12. Boys and girls are slightly higher, not much, but they're slightly higher."

Trump announces highest civilian honor to be awarded to Ben Carson

"But we are going to be presenting Dr Ben Carson with the highest civilian award and honor in our country. It's the civilian version of the Medal of Honor, which is our highest military award."

"It's the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and we're going to have a ceremony at the White House honoring Dr Ben Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Congratulations, Ben, congratulations and everybody, thank you very much. We much appreciate it. Congratulations, Ben, he didn't know this. He didn't know it. I hope he's happy. Thank you very much."

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Announcement coming on autism Monday

We're going to have an announcement on autism

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