PTI, Washington :
The US economy is perhaps the best it has ever been and the country is doing really well, President Donald Trump has said.
Trump was speaking on the eve of the first anniversary of him becoming the President of the US.
“Tomorrow will mark exactly one year since I took the oath of office. And I will say, our country is doing really well. Our economy is perhaps the best it’s ever been,” Trump said in his address to March for Life Participants at the National Mall through live video address from his Rose Garden at the White House.
On June 20 last year, Trump, 71, was sworn in as the 45th President of the US. He succeeded Barack Obama in the White House.
Throughout the first year of his presidency, Trump’s popularity and approval rating have hovered in 30s.
Unmindful of such polls, which he has always doubted, Trump asserted that his policies are working for the better.
“You look at the job numbers; you look at the companies pouring back into our country; you look at the stock market at an all-time high; unemployment, 17-year low,” he said.
“Unemployment for African American workers, at the lowest mark in the history of our country. Unemployment for Hispanic, at a record low in history. Unemployment for women, think of this, at an 18-year low.
We’re really proud of what we’re doing,” he said.
Trump said during his first week in office, he reinstated a policy first put in place by President Ronald Reagan, the Mexico City policy.
“I strongly supported the House of Representative’s Pain-Capable bill, which would end painful, late-term abortions nationwide,” he said and called upon the Senate to pass this important law and send it to my desk for signing.
On the National Day of Prayer, Trump said he signed an executive order to protect religious liberty.
