At a press briefing for new media, Karoline Leavitt touted President Trump's first 100 days in office and slammed the Biden Administration.
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00:00Thank you so much for coming. This is our second official influencer briefing here at the White House in the beautiful South Court Auditorium.
00:09And as you can tell in the White House, we are fully embracing new media.
00:14Trust in the mass media has fallen to record lows.
00:17Tens of millions of Americans are turning elsewhere to get their news and their information.
00:22That's why we've welcomed in openly independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, content creators, and we will continue to do so.
00:32President Trump and our White House also believe strongly in the First Amendment,
00:36which is why our team has restored the press passes of hundreds of journalists whose passes were wrongly revoked by the Biden administration.
00:44So thank you all so much for coming today for your interest in covering the historic achievements of President Trump's first 100 days.
00:51And today officially marks 100 days of promises made and kept by President Trump.
00:57Our primary focus is how President Trump is in the process of rebuilding the world's greatest economy, just like he did in his first term.
01:06President Trump has created 345,000 jobs since taking office in January.
01:13Last month's job report, we saw 100,000 more jobs than economists predicted.
01:17It was the fourth highest month for private payroll growth in the past two years.
01:239,000 manufacturing jobs have been created and added to the economy already since January.
01:29And that's in comparison to the 6,000 manufacturing jobs that were lost per month in the final two years of the Biden administration.
01:36So each month we were losing 6,000 manufacturing jobs under President Trump.
01:40In just 100 days, we've added 9,000.
01:44The U.S. unemployment rate remains at historic lows.
01:47The labor force participation rate for those without a high school diploma is up.
01:51Good news for working-class American families.
01:55And the veteran unemployment rate is down as well to 3.8 percent in March.
02:00When we came into office, it was 4.2 percent.
02:03Remote work among federal employees has fallen over 16 percentage points from March last year to March this year,
02:10showcasing the success of President Trump's initiative to bring federal workers back to the office.
02:17We know middle-class Americans, hardworking people, they have to show up to the office every day.
02:22We expect bureaucrats and government workers to do the same, especially when they are living off of the taxpayer's dime.
02:28If you want to work on behalf of the American taxpayer, you should show up to work in person.
02:32Thanks to President Trump, Americans are seeing the first price relief in years.
02:37The last inflation report showed the first consumer price decline in years,
02:41a decrease in energy prices, and real average hourly wage growth.
02:45President Trump is delivering on his promises to lower costs for American families and businesses.
02:50Prescription drug prices are down.
02:52Last month's drop in prescription drugs prices was the largest ever recorded.
02:56And thanks to President Trump ending Joe Biden's reckless war on American energy, gasoline prices and energy prices are down as well.
03:04The cost of wholesale eggs has decreased more than 50 percent.
03:08The President Trump inherited a complete mess from the Biden administration, who totally botched their response to the bird flu.
03:16They were killing chickens.
03:18They were killing our chicken supply in this country, which led to an increase in egg prices.
03:22And the President and Secretary Rollins did an incredible job attacking that on day one.
03:28On the deregulation front, President Trump is launching the largest deregulation campaign in American history.
03:35He has blocked all of the unfinalized Biden-era rules, which has saved us more than $180 billion already.
03:43He's launched a bold multi-agency effort to roll back existing federal regulations that drive up the cost of living on hardworking families.
03:52That has yielded more than $755 billion in total savings as well.
03:58And as you all know, investments from companies around the world continue to pour into this country.
04:04Every morning we wake up to a new headline with a new company from a different country announcing major investments in our country.
04:11What does that mean for people in your communities across the nation?
04:16It means jobs.
04:17It means Americans going to work.
04:19It means Americans providing for their families, for their children, living the American dream.
04:24And that's what those investments will do.
04:26It's truly the golden age of America.
04:29And that's why the President is working so hard to leverage good trade deals around the world.
04:34He knows America is the best place in the world to do business.
04:37He is using our leverage to negotiate good deals with countries around the world, to onshore manufacturing jobs here, to revitalize our middle class and our manufacturing industry, and also to protect our national security.
04:51I don't think any American agrees it's good that China currently supplies and produces our chips, our pharmaceuticals, and our critical industries.
05:00We want those things built in the United States of America, and President Trump is the first president in modern times to actually do something about that.
05:09So with that said, today is 100 days.
05:12There have been so many achievements, not just on the economic front, and the President continues to work very hard on tax cuts as well and on negotiating those trade deals.
05:22But look at the success at the southern border, which we talked a lot about yesterday, with our border czar Tom Homan, Secretary Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller here at the White House, all of whom are doing a tremendous job and have created, at the president's direction, the most secure border in American history.
05:38We have a mass deportation campaign of illegal aliens underway.
05:41We are removing heinous criminals from your communities across the country every single day.
05:47We are making America safe again, and if you look abroad on the world stage, the president is really using his peace-through-strength foreign policy approach once again.
05:55The rest of the world knows that America is back.
05:59I know Joe Biden used to say that, but we're stealing it from him because it's actually true now.
06:03With President Trump in the Oval Office, the world is a safer place and will continue.