thank you very much thank you Jim
that is a great gentleman and he's a big man isn't he he's a big man Big Jim and
thank you to Cathy very much it's a it's an honor please sit down thank you very
much West Virginia is truly blessed to have
someone like the governor and wonderful first lady and I just want to say that I
love this state which I happened to win by 42 points over a Democrat 42 points
that's like one of these genius golfers winning by nine you know it's like he
the same thing but I want to thank everybody I've spent the last three days
interviewing and thinking about Supreme Court justice is such an important
decision and we're going to give you a great one we're going to announce it on
Monday and I think you'll be very impressed these are very talented people
brilliant people and think you're going to really love it like just as Gorsuch
we we hit a home run there and we're gonna hit a home run here and step by
step we are making America great again
so Jim asked me to do this I mean you know he did switch from Democrat to
Republican you don't see that often so it's hard for me to say no I'm not
coming I said I'm coming Jim and it's a beautiful place and I watch these
tournaments I have such respect for these golfers these great talent that
nobody knows how good they are they're really talented athletes but we're
gathered here on the eve of the 4th of July to celebrate the courageous men and
women who make freedom possible our brave service members and our wonderful
veterans so we love our veterans love our veterans
for 242 years a long time American independence has endured because of the
sweat blood and sacrifice of the American armed forces we be yeah you
probably been here and we may air at a little thing called space force we have
Air Force space force I don't know if anybody wants to hear that but we're
thinking very seriously about it because space is becoming very important
militarily as well as other reasons but the greatest force for peace and justice
and the history of the world during both the Civil War and the world war two the
Greenbriar served as a hospital for wounded soldiers so it's so appropriate
tonight at the Greenbrier is first annual salute to service dinner we're
calling upon this rich history and we're carrying on the PGA's proud legacy of
supporting America's Heroes joining us for tonight's ceremony are many
incredible golfers who will be competing at the Greenbrier this week and I'll be
sitting home at the White House or I'll be watching and saying I wish I could
play like that among those with us I just said hello to a few of them Bubba
Watson he's having a good year whizz Bubba where is he boy Bubba he is having
a good year Thank You Bubba Keegan Bradley hey Keegan
great thanks Keegan Thanks thanks Caitlin that putter is working I just
said that shorter putt is okay a longest hitter I've ever seen Big John Daly John
John Boy he's Joe and I played with John and a tournament that we won meaning
that he won he won you know it's funny he won and then I go back everyone said
how'd you do I won right John he's something and Phil Mickelson Phil I'll
tell you I'll never forget I was at this is I
don't think Phil can remember this but like 15 you where's Phil where is that
guy he's so incredible but it was about 15 years ago and I was Donald and I'm
watching and the place is packed with people and Phil's there and he sees me
and I've liked Phil and Phil I think likes me and he's on the 3rd hole and
it's a big deal a big tournament and he said oh excuse me just a second and he
gets up hits a ball was a 3-wood he hits a 3 he right down the middle then he
comes back ok good so has everything else
that really is special talent that's the office Phil right that's just the office
so it's really amazing what a great career what a great gentleman I also
want to thank Jim Nantz for leading this evening's program Jim wherever you may
be where's Jim does a great great job hi Jim
great job Joe really good and slugger whitey keep honest right
done a fantastic job nobody plays games with Slugger I know what Durrell I tried
to move the tees back and like he couldn't he just wouldn't let me do it
there was no doubt about it rights like a slug is great and all of the PGA
officials tournament staff and the volunteers for their incredibly hard
work in putting this really incredible event together and the job that Jim
Justice has done with the course is really spectacular
also with us this evening is acting VA Secretary's doing a phenomenal job at
the Veterans Administration Peter O'Rourke
Peter Peter good job Peter I've done a lot of work at the VA along with West
Virginia senator Shelley Moore Capitol who's a good golfer by the way Shelley
good golfer Shelley and congressman Alex Mooney and Morgan Griffith where are
they great thanks fellows tremendous help to me
getting things passed you think it's easy in Congress not easy so I have to
great if I didn't introduce them as an example today they'd never vote for me
again that would be the end of your taxes that would be the end of
everything I also want to thank a great Attorney General from West Virginia
Patrick Morrissey who is fighting a great race Patrick and congratulations
to Patrick running for the US Senate and he is a tough strong guy and he ran an
incredible race against some very talented people and he won and now he's
got another race and it's going to be icy the polls have it very close you may
be surprised to see what's gonna happen he's got incredible energy incredible
strength and he loves the people of West Virginia like a lot
so good luck Patrick we're proud of you great job
speaker Tim armed said and Majority Whip Carol Miller I want to thank you very
much for being here and Carol good luck in the race I know you're gonna do well
I know you're gonna do well and we're honored to have with us the adjutant
general of West Virginia Major General James Hoyer of the National Guard the
Big Cheese thank you Thank You general thank you very much
tomorrow families across our nation will gather to celebrate the fourth of July
as we do we will think of the men and women serving overseas as this very
moment far away far far away from their families protecting American watching
over our people they are there and they are with us and they are brave these are
incredible people and we will thank God for blessing us with these unbelievable
heroes to everyone here tonight who have served our nation in uniform will you
please stand so we can express our gratitude please stand please
tough cookies tough cookies and you know when it comes to ice and Border Patrol
and all of these incredible people that you've been reading about who were doing
an unreal job we want border security we want security in our country we respect
ice you know ice is the one these are tough people and you have to be tough
and when they have a problem with ms-13 gangs and all of these others that came
in through these horrible and weak immigration laws that Shelley were
strengthening up we're gonna get them done we need tough laws we need fair
laws but when these people come into our country and come in illegally and then
they dispersed throughout the country and all of a sudden you see nests of
ms-13 you know it's like you're liberating towns we send ice in and for
ice it's just another day like Phil and John and Keegan all of the guys and
Bubba like the way they play golf they go they play they don't know it's hard
they don't know what that is these guys they walk into those areas
they take them out of there so fast they're not afraid of anything it is
it's like you're liberating a town like in a war you're liberating a town or an
area and ice goes in there and they go in there and sometimes they have to go
and swinging they don't mind they're tough and then I hear Democrats saying
we want to abandon nice we want to abandon we're not abandoning ice and
we're not abandoning our law enforcement just the opposite
so I want to recognize today a legendary hero from West Virginia a veteran who
fought in Ujima in February of 1945 he volunteered to dash straight into enemy
fire to destroy vital enemy fortifications and to clear a path for
American forces to continue forward he went right into the machine-gun nests
John Daley wouldn't do that and he's a pretty tough cut John would you do that
I don't think so definitely hurt your golf game John that's the end of golf in
the face of bullets and bayonets he risked his life for his brothers in arms
and he earned the Congressional Medal of Honor
today woody Williams is 94 years old he has dedicated his life to supporting
gold star families and building memorials to honor our fallen
servicemembers in 2016 thousands were moved by Woody's patriotic words when he
spoke at one of our rallies in West Virginia he was incredible I still
remember it and of course we all remember that wonderful moment when
woody flipped the coin at this year's Super Bowl
woody you are a national treasure and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts
woody where I was where's woody where's woody Thank You woody
Thank You woody brave man 94 I give a lot of congressional medals of honors
well I say a lot probably five so far and it's really one of my my greatest
honors to do it the Congressional Medal of Honor
so our highest honor woody fantastic so often I'm giving them posthumously where
they just not around but we hear the stories and their families are there and
everyone's proud but every once in a while we have one that can be given to
people that are living like you woody so thank you very much we're all so deeply
moved and honored to be joined by a Goldstar spouse who knows the true price
of freedom Christine who's Terry Christine's husband Chris was a sergeant
in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division great group Chris was killed in action
in Iraq in 2005 Christine tonight we send the love and gratitude of our
entire nation your husband was a special man we will hold you and your precious
family in our hearts forever Christine where are you Christine Christine thank
you very much Thank You Christine
Thank You Christine
and Christine through your husband's heroic sacrifice you understand that he
has achieved immortality and our debt to him and to you is eternal and
everlasting thank you very much thank you Julie from Bunker Hill to the
beaches of Normandy and the jungles of Vietnam Americans in every generation
have given their last breath their last measure of love and their final moments
on this earth in defense of their country and their countrymen our
servicemembers have fulfilled their duty to America a million times over now we
must fulfill our sacred duty to them we must protect those who protect us when
our servicemembers are in uniform it is our obligation to ensure that they have
the finest equipment the finest training care resources better than any military
on earth and when our servicemembers return to civilian life as veterans we
must ensure they have access to the best care treatment and support in the world
we are restoring American security by rebuilding our great military we have
secured this year with the help of Shelley and your great congressman
a record seven hundred billion dollars for our military and next year seven
hundred and sixteen billion dollars most amount ever we're rebuilding our
military and when have we needed it more outside of wars themselves when think
about it and we're building it so big so powerful so strong stronger than we've
ever been and hopefully we'll never have to use it
and as the golfers can tell you the stronger we get the less likely it is
that we will have to use it but we'll be at a point the likes of which we've
never been as a power and again hopefully never having to use that
incredible equipment that is built right here best in the
world in the USA we also gave our great warriors their largest pay raise in
eight years so they got a pay raise and it was about time they've been waiting
for a long time and I'm proud that under my administration we've passed the
largest VA reforms in half a century I signed into law just recently the VA
accountability legislation and just so you understand accountability you
couldn't fire anybody in the VA they could be sadists they could be late they
could be bad they could have lots of problems they could talk back to you you
couldn't do a thing for 40 years they've been trying to get it passed and we got
it passed it's called VA accountability and as
I've said before we now look at the person that violates our great veterans
and we say Jim get the hell out of here you're fired and we can do it now we can
do it you couldn't do anything if they're no good and if they're good we
reward we have a lot of great people as promised we open the White House VA
hotline and have instituted new transparency on wait times and quality
of care we are processing veteran claims more quickly than ever before we're
expanding health care so that our great veterans can get care anywhere anytime
and maybe most importantly I don't know accountability is important but this is
another one I used to be very proud of myself when I'd be on the campaign trail
and I'd say you know why don't they just pay a doctor to take care because as you
know sometimes veterans will stand on line for days and days for weeks
can you imagine Phil Mickelson going to the doctor and they say good he should
be there at about 12 days 12 days that's not acceptable Phil right
it's not acceptable so what we're doing is now if there's a weight if there's a
problem you're going to a doctor that might be right across the street you're
gonna get taken care of immediately people would wait so long you'd wait
weeks you'd stand on a line you'd literally come back day after day so now
we have what's called VA choice and I used to say why don't they do that I
didn't know anything I thought it was totally brilliant I thought this was the
greatest idea then I went to tell people about it they said you know we've been
trying to get that past four years so I was very good at getting it past because
we got it past three weeks ago so now you have VA choice where if you have to
wait you go to a doctor we paid the doctor so it's great now we're very
proud of that and we're very proud of what's happening at the VA in order to
maintain our security as a nation we understand that we must have economic
strength as well and nobody believes it if I would have
said it they would have said what a horrible thing to say what an
exaggeration the fake news they're all back there they're all back there if I
would have shot a 75 that say there's no way he could do it there's no way they
might be right about that actually but they are back there they would have said
there's no way 3.4 million new jobs since election day they would have said
no way they would have said a lot of people would have said
unemployment claims are at the lowest point in 44 years that means people are
working again african-american unemployment is in the lowest it's ever
been the history of our country it's at the lowest in the history of our country
remember I used to say what do you have to lose vote for Trump what do you have
to lose Hispanic American unemployment the lowest in the history of our country
by the way women I was saying two weeks ago 21 years now I'm saying 66 years I
think within two weeks I'll be saying the lowest in history the lowest
unemployment in 66 years last year in West Virginia per capita personal income
grew more than 40 percent faster than the national average coal experts
remember I said coal Oh clean call Jim clean call right we always say clean
call and what they can do now is incredible with coal clean coal exports
skyrocketed by more than 60 percent nationwide and I'm so proud of that when
we came here I met with the miners and I talked to the miners and I talked to
even about different way of life they didn't want to hear but they love
thinking coal that's what they like they loved their grandfathers their fathers
their families and coal is coming back and it's also coming back for another
reason national security and your governor
knows very well and your senator knows very well what that means with cold you
know you bomb a pipeline that's the end of the pipeline with coal that stuff is
indestructible you can move it around on a truck you can dump it at the plant you
can do whatever the hell you can rain on top of it for a long time right Jim can
rain like crazy can do whatever you want snow sleet wind you just dump it that's
there you hit those pipelines they're gone and that's the end of it you're
saying man we better go out and start cutting some lumber so for national
security purposes I don't think people talk about it and of coal America is
winning again because we're finally putting America first we're putting our
country first tomorrow we commemorate 242 years since
our forefathers adopted the Declaration of Independence in their quest to become
a sovereign nation they knew they would have to defeat the most powerful
military on land or in sea they knew that they knew that as they met
thousands upon thousands of British troops were
disembarking outside of New York City preparing to crush the revolution they
were going to crush it quickly they weren't even actually taking it
seriously these Patriots knew that their lives
their fortunes and their sacred honor were on the line they risked it all for
the promise of more of a just and better future they wanted this great future in
this incredible land they made the same brave choice as countless others who
followed in the generations after them the choice to stand strong for their
families their principles their pride and their god-given rights every time we
see an American in uniform any time we have the chance to shake the hand of a
veteran and whenever we hear the stories of our warriors we are reminded how
truly blessed we are to be America and to live in this land of our great heroes
you our great heroes this fourth of July let us pledge to renew the bonds of love
and loyalty that unite us together as Americans let us pledge to expand the
blessings of liberty prosperity and justice to all of our citizens and let
us always remember that we are one people and one nation saluting one great
American flag
I want to thank you to every one of these incredible athletes that are here
today these are PGA players these are unbelievably talented people they're
talented in their mind and in their body their muscles are strong but their mind
has to be stronger it's tough and these are tough people these are incredible
people so I want to thank all of you for being here tonight it's an honor for me
especially as a golfer it's an honor for me I want to thank Big Jim justice stand
up take Jim come on he's about 610 and he weighs about I'm
not gonna say 450 I won't do that to you too
but he's a big man and he's done a great job do you know that West Virginia is
second in the nation in the percentage increase of GDP think of what that means
and Jim just said before we met Trump that number was not good
pretty close to last right and combinations of a lot of good people
with Shelley and you and us but now think of that Texas was first Texas
doing a great job great governor there too but Texas was first West Virginia
was second percentage increase of GDP that's an incredible accomplishment in a
short period of time credible I want to thank everyone at the Greenbrier for
making this tournament a beautiful tribute to our military and thanks again
to all of the veterans here tonight and all across America we love you we thank
you and we will never ever forget you god bless our veterans god bless america
and happy Independence Day
thank you
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