Donald Trump. Remarks by President Trump on the Farmers to Families Food Box Program Distribution . Flavor First Growers and Packers Mills River, North Carolina
Thank you very much. Did you see the crowd outside? (Laughter and applause.) I don’t know if they report it. I don’t think they do. You know who they are, right? The fake news. (Applause.) No, I don’t know that they report it. That is an unbelievable — thousands and thousands of people lined up so far. (Applause.)
And it was very important for me to come to North Carolina because we wanted to be here, but your governor didn’t allow it because he’s in a shutdown mode —
AUDIENCE: Booo
HE PRESIDENT: — along with a lot of other Democrat governors. And it’s — it’s too bad. But I want to thank Kirby and the incredible people I just met: farmers and wonderful business people and, really, humanitarians. They’re incredible people.
I’m thrilled to be at the Flavor First Growers and Packers facility here in the great state of North Carolina. (Applause.)
And, you know, Joe Biden was supposed to be in Wisconsin, but he never showed up. (Laughter.) I showed up. In fact, we did our count — our vote we did here in North Carolina. We did it in Charlotte a little while ago. I was there. It was a great, exciting moment, actually.
Today we’re here to celebrate the incredible work of the farmers and faith leaders and amazing volunteers who are caring for their community through our highly successful Farmers to Families Food Box program. I just looked at a couple of those boxes, and I said, “I want to have something right now.” (Laughter.) But they thought it would be inappropriate because I was coming up to speak, but beautiful-looking stuff.
We’re grateful to be joined by Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, and somebody that you know, Ivanka Trump. (Applause.) And Ivanka has been a big supporter of this project and this whole program. And it’s been — it’s made people that were looking for food happy and it’s made the farmers happy. (Applause.)
With all of us — we’re just thrilled to be here. You have a representative named Ted Budd. Where’s Ted Budd? Where is Ted? Ted? Thank you very much. What a great warrior you’ve been. (Applause.) Ted Budd, congressman. Thank you, Ted, very much. I appreciate it.
And where is Madison? Where is Madison? Is he here? What —
PARTICIPANT: Right over here.
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