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RIP @ArtBell51, one of our greatest showmen. He told the truth. About 911, about many things. Struck down at age 72 by unknown or undisclosed forces. Thoughts & prayers with Airyn Bell and the kids.

James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did -- until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and untruthful SLIME BALL who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst "botch jobs" of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!

A TOTAL, UNPRESIDENTED WITCH HUNT!!! Attorney-client privilege is dead. They broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. Good man. And it's a disgraceful situation. I've wanted to keep it down: We’ve given, I believe, over a million pages worth of documents to the special counsel. They continue to just go forward and here we are talking about Syria. We're talking about a lot of serious things with the greatest fighting force ever. And I have this WITCH HUNT constantly going on for over 12 months now and actually much more than that. You could say it was right after I won the nomination instead. It makes the country look very bad. Can we call it treason? It puts the country in a very bad position, so the sooner it’s worked out, the better it is for the country. Why don't I just fire Mueller? Well I think it's a disgrace what's going on. We'll see what happens. There has been NO COLLUSION & NO OBSTRUCTION WHATSOEVER (except me fighting back). You fight back, oh, it’s "obstruction."

Folks, our Country has become the dumping ground for the rest of the world. For some terrific people. They’re terrific people, but we are gonna make a determination at that. What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country -- we call it deportation -- or we are going to incarcerate. And sometimes, unfortunately, we've been doing the Due Process on that. Meaning, we take them to court. But our judges are much too SLOW! So we're giving them a little incentive, we're doing the carrot and the stick. And the carrot is something we call the Quota. We're going to have a Quota of 700 cases per year. And the judges that don't meet the Quota will be fired. Out on their asses. People think I'm shy about firing people. Those are very foolish people. Because I'm not shy, believe me.

And Merry Christmas, everyone! Have a GREAT TIME with your favorite Bunny. twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/979816766904954880

Folks, when I was the President-elect, I did something VERY SPECIAL. I talked on the phone with President Tsai of Taiwan. And the Chinese lost their minds over that one. They absolutely lost their minds, that was so amazing. Because for a long time we had what they called the One China Policy. That said Taiwan is part of China, they call it a province. One team, one people, one Chinese family. Very important to the Chinese. And because we went along with that, China helped us take out the USSR, they were having big problems with the USSR just like we were. And we made some deals that were very unfair to our country. That made it so our companies, our factories, our jobs, our technology, our money all went to China. That changes now. I'm doing tariffs, I put on some tariffs.

And I signed a proclamation, I didn't have to sign it but I wanted to sign it. I loved signing it. Our guys in Congress worked very hard on this one, and they passed it OVERWHELMINGLY. So it would have gone through even if I didn't sign. But I signed.

It's called the Taiwan Travel Act. And it's great news for the people of Taiwan. Because it means Taiwan isn't just an island in the Pacific any more. It's now a Country. They already had a President -- great phone call, by the way, one of the best. They have a Flag, it's a lot like ours because it's red, blue and white. 🇹🇼 Instead of red, white and blue (God bless our Flag). 🇺🇸 But to the United States, to my predecessors, they weren't a Country. We pretended they were just a so-called "province" of China. I upgraded them massively, now they're a Country. We're going to make some great deals and do a lot of great things together. Because this Travel Act lets our diplomats go back and forth much more easily. Congratulations!!!

So, I want to engrave some things. Most of these things are going to be iron, steel, or aluminum tools, but I'd also like to engrave some less durable items, such as plastics. I've done a couple searches, and I'm looking at engravers ranging from about $80 (US$) all the way up to about $180,000. I suppose that if I searched, I could find some cheaper, and almost certainly more expensive.

So, I'm looking - and all that I can really see, is how ignorant I am. I have almost zero idea what it is that will make a long-lasting engraver. Will one of those ultra-cheap engravers from China last for ten years of light-to-moderate use? Probably not - but what do I know? Is it necessary to spend thousands of dollars for the same thing? Newegg has a variety of engravers, for less than $400, but the biggest, most powerful among them has a disclaimer:

Engraving Material Note:
1.can engraving materials:wood,bamboo,plastic,paper,leather,bank card,rubber
2.can not engraving material:metal,stone,ceramic,shell,light-reflecting material,transparent material

Seems pretty obvious that I need something bigger, and more expensive, than a $400 engraver. Can engraving metal, dammit!

Does anyone here have experience with non-industrial laser engravers? (Industrial? Quarter million dollars entry level?) Power ratings, sizes, brands, whatever - any information is welcome!

It's a very close race in the 18th district of Pennsylvania. A VERY SPECIAL election. And we haven't gone through all the legal on that one. Whoever ends up winning, it'll be a hard fought victory. The people of Pennsylvania are great. If they chose Rick Saccone for Congress, he will be much better for steel and business. Very strong on experience and what our Country -- and our 🐘 Party -- needs. We need that seat, believe me. We need more Republicans to continue our already successful agenda! Rick is a great guy. He's always had my TOTAL support. I'm not a lawyer, as everybody knows. I'm a builder. I'm an actor. And I'm a politician. But if there's anything I can do on the legal, anything he wants, he knows where to find me. Rick's a fighter, I know he's going to fight very hard on the legal. And Jill Stein, maybe she'll raise some money to do a recount. Or whatever she does with that money.

But if they chose Conor, they made a great choice too. I'll work with him. And I think we can get some terrific things done. So many Dems do nothing but obstruct. And they talk about nothing but Donald J. Trump. I just came back from San Diego & Los Angeles, they love me there. Tremendous crowds wherever I went. But Dirty Maxine is always going "Trump, Trump, Trump." Instead of fixing some of the big problems in her district -- a very sad situation, totally out of control. Conor's not like that, he's never said anything against me. That's very special. And very smart. I love the way he looks, he's a handsome guy. He supports me on the steel & aluminum tariffs, which I did for the hard working folks in Pennsylvania. He knows Pennsylvania needs them. So we can stop losing our industry there. Have you seen his ads? He has a great one where he's shooting, maybe an AR-15? They're saying it's an AR-15. Very gun-adept guy, very weapons talented, he's part of the 20% with military or special training. Our military needs to be much stronger, so strong that no one will want to get into a war with us. I know Conor wants that, 100%. Hopefully he'll see how important it is to upgrade & modernize our nuclear arsenal. He goes both ways on abortion. Like the guy who left, former Congressman Tim Murphy. That was one of his big issues, probably the biggest. And he decided to go both ways on that one.

The drugs, I love what Conor's been doing about the drugs. As you know he did some great work with the U.S. Attorney's office in Pittsburgh. Where he was a prosecutor. So many drug dealers LOCKED UP because of him. You kill 5,000 people with drugs because you’re smuggling them in and you are making a lot of money and people are dying. And they don’t even put you in jail,. That’s why we have a problem, folks. I don’t think we should play games. And Conor doesn't play. The only way to solve the drug problem is through toughness. When you catch a drug dealer, you’ve got to put him away for a long time. Great job!

Some countries have a very, very tough penalty -- the ultimate penalty. And, by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. A while back I talked to the President of Singapore, President Tan -- they replaced him with a lady now. And I asked him, are you having the same problems we're having with the opioids? And he told me, "we have a zero tolerance policy. That means if we catch a drug dealer, death penalty." Same thing in China, they do executions, they're very tough about it. The Philippines, President Duterte is doing a great job. I don’t know if this country’s ready for it, but I think that's a discussion we have to start thinking about. Probably you'll have some people who say "oh, that's not nice." But we have to do something. And believe me, eventually we'll get something done. Do you think the drug dealers who kill thousands of people during their lifetime, do you think they care who’s on a blue-ribbon committee? We can't just keep setting up blue ribbon committees and all they do is talk, talk, talk.

It was my great honor to deliver a message at the Marine Core Air Station Miramar to our GREAT U.S. Military, straight from the heart of the American People: We support you, we thank you, we love you, and we will always, always have your back! pic.twitter.com/oCt1nH3DON

All across this nation, we pray for our country and we THANK GOD for our United States Marines! Thank you. God Bless You. And God Bless America! pic.twitter.com/vKXBd0CGH1

Had a terrific Summit Thursday at the White House. We had some fine folks. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center, Melissa Henson -- she's a mother -- of the Parents Television Council,Strauss Zelnick of Take Two Interactive & Rockstar Games, Pat Vance of the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Mike Gallagher of the Entertainment Software Association, and Robert Altman of ZeniMax Media -- my little brother Robert Trump is on their board. Vicky Hartzler, one of our wonderful Republicans in Congress. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, he's doing great things with our Police. Some good people, I assume they're good people. And I showed them some clips we put together, these are scenes from video games. Some look so real, right? They're not real, they're all Fake. And I asked, this is violent, isn’t it? youtu.be/0C_IBSuXIoo

We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds and their minds are being formed. We have to do something about maybe what they're seeing and how they're seeing it. And also video games. I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts.

And movies. You see these movies, they're so violent. And yet a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn't involved, but killing is involved. And maybe they have to put a rating system for that. You get into a whole very complicated, very big deal but the fact is that you are having movies come out that are so violent with the killing and everything else that maybe that's another thing we're going to have to discuss.

The movies, the video games, obviously a very big part of our economy. Very important to our economy. But I'm asking the folks in those industries to explore things they can do on their own to make things healthier in society. Because I think maybe when folks see so much fake violence, it can lead to real violence. This is not a guns thing. And by the way, we're not doing the age restriction on the guns. I was kidding, obviously I was kidding there. So our Second Amendment people can relax about that one. We're doing the concealed carry for teachers, for our very gun-adept teachers, instead. The 20%. MAGA! whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/readout-president-donald-j-trumps-meeting-video-game-industry-leaders