President Trump delivered remarks on Monday at the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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00:00well thank you very much everybody and a very happy Easter to everyone it was a beautiful day
00:07yesterday and it's a beautiful day today we don't have to worry about sunburn but we looks like it's
00:14not going to be raining it's going to be really something special 40,000 42,000 people are expected
00:20all throughout the day and it's an honor to have you I just signed an executive order putting the
00:26flags of our country all of them all federal flags and state flags at half-mast in honor of Pope
00:34Francis so he was a good man worked hard he he loved the world and it's an honor to do that I
00:42want to thank everybody for being here this is some band I've heard this band actually indirectly for
00:50four years and very directly now for four and a half and I like the direct method even better
00:56but the Marine Corps band is very very special thank you very much what a great job thank you
01:01thank you I also want to thank the National Park Service the job they do and making everything so
01:10beautiful and spiffy and I'm very difficult when it comes to that I will tell you a very very difficult
01:16that I say they have done an incredible job you just have to look around and see and I just want
01:22to give a special thank you to our great first lady who organized this entire event she worked
01:28very very hard on it she worked very hard I said what are you doing she said I'm working on the egg roll
01:36I said that sounds like a lot of fun and we're gonna have a lot of fun in just a couple of minutes but
01:42again our country is doing very well our we had the highest number of recruits enlistments that we've had
01:51in I think 28 or 29 years and I'm sure we're gonna actually beat that number it's all happened since
01:56November 5th it's all happened enrollment in the military is that a record and enrollment in the
02:03police force fire forces and all of the different law enforcement groups we have we were setting records and
02:11six months ago we couldn't get anybody and now we're setting records that's sort of testament to what's
02:17happening in terms of the spirit of our country we love our country and it's been something very very
02:24special and speaking of special Easter is special and it's one of our favorite days it's one of our
02:34favorite periods of time we're honoring Jesus Christ and we're going to honor Jesus Christ very powerfully
02:41throughout our lives all throughout our lives not just now all throughout our lives we're bringing
02:47religion back in America we're bringing a lot of things back but religion is coming back to America
02:53that's why you see the kind of numbers that you're seeing the spirit and the kind of numbers that you're
02:58seeing so we're going to come down and join you right now but I just want to wish everybody once again
03:04happy Easter and enjoy your lives we're going to have a great four years thank you very much everybody thank you