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Dolan J. Trump is a parody Twitter accounta mashup of the New York Knicks petty, spiteful, and incompetent owner James Dolan, and the 45th President of the United States. For those who enjoy that sort of thing, it does a wonderful job of aping Trumps thunderous, all-caps social media missives, save for the fact that his spittle-flecked rage is aimed at New York basketball beat reporters and not The New York Times. Funny stuff, to be sure.

The humor really hits home on a day like Tuesday, when the team chucked gasoline on a simmering feud with Spike Lee, the Oscar-winning director and possibly the worlds most famous Knicks fan. By the time the dust kicked up by all the accusations and counter-accusations had settled, the director had sworn never to set foot in Madison Square Garden again. (Next season, maybe.) Not after the Knicks had publicly called Lee, a truly devoted Knicks die-hard, a shameless liar trying to gin up drama.

The most exhaustingor endlessly amusing, for non-Knicks fansaspect to this cringeworthy diaper-filling contest? None of it was remotely necessary. In another, slightly less stupid universe, the Knicks had the opportunity to score a much-needed and exceedingly rare public relations win, even, instead of yet another in a series of self-inflicted wounds.

All they had to do was offer a few gracious words, even if Lees outrage was unwarranted and histrionic. But no. No team in all of sports more closely resembles the personality of their owner than the Knicks: paranoid, endlessly resentful, and either unable or unwilling to let any perceived slight slide. Dolan J. Trump account notwithstanding, comparing anyone to Trump is lazy and inevitably fails. (Despite ordering The Rockettes to perform at the inauguration, another reason the comparison doesnt work is that Dolan lacks an army of MAGA chuds whove got his backevery Knicks fan with an operating cerebral cortex realizes hes a delusional twit.) But the gag works because of days like Tuesday, when the Knicks behaved in as Trumpian a manner as anyone not working in the Oval Office.

The idiocy kicked off Monday evening, when a video of Lee shouting at Madison Square Garden personnel began circulating online. Evidently, for years, the 62-year-old filmmaker and season ticket-holder has avoided the inconveniences of entering the arena with the rest of the hoi polloi. Instead, Lee has been allowed to mingle with employees and the credentialed press in a separate entrance. Security personnel told Lee that this privilege would no longer be afforded, and he had to exit and then re-enter MSG. Lee got mad, claiming no one had informed him of the change in policy. No one told me. No one told me, Lee said in the video. If you want to arrest me like Charles Oakley, go the fuck ahead.

Eventually, Lee made his way to his usual courtside seat, and that appeared to be that. Reader, it was not.

According to Lee, while heading home he saw a statement the Knicks PR team put out claiming the issue regarding the entrance had been amicably resolved. Lee grew upset once again, and so on Tuesday morning he unpacked all of his feelings on ESPNs First Take:

At halftime of Monday nights Knicks-Houston Rockets game, Dolan himself approached Lee, presumably to make amends. During their brief confab last night, Lee claims Dolan told him now you know about the change in entrance rules. Therefore, Dolan was harassing him, Lee said. How is it the wrong entrance if Ive been using the same entrance for 28 years! Its Garden spin!

Oh and Lee also confessed that he pays $299,000 for two courtside season tickets, during which time hes suffered through more shitty basketball than any normal human being should be expected to tolerate. Looking back, Lee said it makes him look like a mamaluke, Italian slang for a stupid, foolish person.

All of his remaining tickets have been given away, though he may return next season. Lets pause here for a moment. Imagine you are running the PR shop for a business concern valued at $4.6 billion. How to respond, here? One option might have been to apologize to the superfan and say hes welcome back whenever he so desires. Maybe you think thats a crock of horseshit, and Lee is pitching a hissy fit over what appears by all accounts to be a minor inconvenience? Why not extend an olive branch, and reverse the perception that the team is incredibly thin-skinned? Reader, they did not.

Why not extend an olive branch, and reverse the perception that the team is incredibly thin-skinned? Reader, they did not.

The idea that Spike Lee is a victim because we have repeatedly asked him to not use our employee entrance and instead use a dedicated VIP entrancewhich is used by every other celebrity who enters The Gardenis laughable, the Knicks said in a statement posted to Twitter shortly after Lees ESPN segment aired. Its disappointing that Spike would create this false controversy to perpetuate drama.

Just to hammer the point home: the Knicks seized on a single claim made by Lee on First Take. Namely, that he and Dolan never shook hands. As evidence, they posted a Zapruder-level photo presumably culled from security footage showing Lee and Dolan mid-handshake:

Naturally, by Tuesday afternoon Lee fired back at the Knicks. Whats laughable is how the Knicks are the laughing stock of the league in sports, said Lee. Thats whats fucking laughable. While he confessed to being wrong about that handshake, Lee is sure its all a vast conspiracy:

Lee is clearly milking this for all its worth, and hell, the Knicks may even be in the right regarding the employee entrance. It doesnt matter.

What does matter is they have once again reinforced the perception that any beef will inevitably be escalated and vengeance exacted and that the team is incompetent. Theres a very good reason this perception exists. They sicced security on a fan yelling fire Dolan in November and again in January. Yet another fan was escorted from the arena in May 2019, and Dolan alleged the fan had cleverly set out to ambush him. After Charles Oakley was dragged from the arena in handcuffs, Dolan called him a drunk. (A lawsuit filed by Oakley was recently dismissed.) Fans whove heckled Dolan either via mail or on the street also have substance-abuse issues, per Dolan. And thats just paying customers. When former NBA player Richard Jefferson lobbed a joke about the Knicks, the PR department swung into action, issuing a forceful, strongly worded denial.

But most of Dolans bile has been saved for the local and national press, all of whom have been treated like his sworn enemy going back decades. Of late, hes tried to exact a pound of flesh from New York Daily News reporters and WFAN radio hosts for (rightly) saying and writing true things about his cartoonish, failure-strewn tenure as owner. When the tabloid reported on Dolans involvement with an astroturfed lobbying group, the Knicks official PR Twitter account posted headshots of two obscure Tronc executives, for some bizarre reason.

Professional athletes, including high-priced free agents who might want to ply their trade in New York, pay attention to this sort of thing.

Take Al Harrington, who toiled for the Knicks from 2008 to 2010, and grew up in Orange, New Jersey. Like Lee, he rooted for the team as a kid. Playing at MSG represented a dream come true, he said. Getting embroiled in a flame war with Lee, was, Stupid so stupid. Prior to his stint at MSG, he was confused as to why the team couldnt attract any free agents of note. From his own front-row seat, Harrington came to realize this shit cant get right, said Harrington. The organization, for some reason, just has a funk around it.

Monday marked the first day that ex-CAA agent Leon Rose had been named president of basketball operations. Job one is dispelling the perception held by Harrington, and convincing the rest of the basketball world that hes the one in charge. Tuesdays PR gaffes rendered all that null and void within 24 hours. Whats even more exasperating for Knicks fans (like me) is that if theyd taken the high road, if they engaged in some light bowing and scraping, think of the headlines that would have generated! The press would have marveled at Roses ability to temper Dolans worst instincts, and proclaimed that he clearly had been empowered to fix the Gardens stifling, toxic culture. Those insisting that a culture of fear pervades MSG, as Sports Illustrateds Jonathan Macri tweeted, with employees at all levels of the company terrified of pissing off the boss, might have been forced to reconsider. Not now. Not when Rose has yet to open his mouth about any of this, and Dolan is, by all available evidence, directing their PR efforts.

And anyone still wondering why the worst NBA franchise of the 21st century cant reverse course, this is exhibit A. (Sell, the team, Jim.) Honestly, its exhausting, feeling as if nothing will change, that awful men will continue to spout bile and wreck formerly functional, even beautiful things. Yet the conniption fits and the mindless incompetence will have no impact on the constant stream of profit, and the idea theyd ever face any repercussions is bound to provoke more peals of laughter than anything Dolan J. Trump might post.

Why anyone (like Lee and I) would continue to fork over dollars and emotional currency remains a mystery. Or maybe Lee had it dead right: Were all mamalukes.

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President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday announced additional travel restrictions involving Iran and increased warnings about travel to Italy and South Korea to combat the coronavirus after the health officials in Washington state announced the first death in the U.S. from the virus.

Pence, who's been placed in charge of the administration's response, said the U.S. was "expanding existing travel restrictions to include any foreign national who has visited Iran within the last 14 days.The administration is also urging Americans not to travel to areas of Italy and South Korea that have been struck hard by the virus.

Travel from China to the U.S. has already been restricted and Trump said he was also looking at restrictions on entry from America's southern border.

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We are looking also southern border, Trump said, despite the low number of coronavirus cases in Mexico so far. Pressed on the issue, he said, "This is not a border this seems to be much of a problem right now. We hope we won't have to do that.

Were thinking about all borders, he said at another point.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said, We want to lower the amount of travel to and from the most impacted areas.

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This is a basic containment strategy, he added.

Health officials said in a press briefing Saturday that the person who died is a man in his 50s.

Trump said four other Americans are "seriously ill," and there are currently 22 confirmed cases, not including the nearly four dozen people who were brought back from Asia.

"Additional cases in the United States are likely, but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think that will be a statement we can make with great surety now that we've gotten familiar with this problem," he said. "Healthy people, if you're healthy you'll probably go through a process and you'll be fine."

The briefing came after three new confirmed or presumptive cases of the coronavirus illness COVID-19 contracted from an unknown source were reported Friday, including in California and Washington State. Azar said officials are not recommending restricting travel to those states.

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Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, "We should anticipate more cases, but the current risk to the American public remains low."

Pence also stressed "that the average American does not need to go out and buy a mask." He said the government has more than 40 million masks on hand and has contracted with Minnesota-based manufacturer 3M for 35 million more masks per month to ensure they're available for health care providers.

"We're going to lean into this effort and put the health and safety of the American people first," Pence said.

Trump said he'd be meeting at the White House on Monday with the heads of pharmaceutical companies about the prospects of a vaccine. "They'll be coming to the White House, and we're talking about a vaccine and developing very quickly, and they've already started working on it," he said.

Officials have cautioned it will likely take at least a year and a half to develop a vaccine.

At a rally in South Carolina on Friday, Trump defended his administration's handling of the virus and accused Democrats of "politicizing" the issue. "This is their new hoax," he said.

His Democratic rivals blasted the comments. Trump insisted he'd been misunderstood and hadn't referred to the virus itself as a hoax.

He said he was "referring to the action that they take to try and pin this on somebody because we've done such a good job. The hoax is on them. I'm not talking about what's happening here. I'm talking what they're doing. That's the hoax. That's just a continuation of the hoax, whether it's the impeachment hoax or Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. This is what I'm talking about. Certainly not referring to this. How could anybody refer to this? This is very serious, he said.

He said there was still no reason for panic.

"We would respectfully ask the media and politicians and everybody else involved not do anything to incite a panic because there's no reason to panic at all. This is something that is being handled professionally, he said. "This too will end."

Dareh Gregorian is a politics reporter for NBC News.

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PORT CHARLOTTE Like the wives of other players across the majors, Kayleigh McEnany tries to keep up with her husbands baseball career while juggling family and work responsibilities.

So as Sean Gilmartin battles for a spot in the Rays bullpen, McEnany, a Tampa native, is busy making her own pitch as national spokesperson for President Donald Trumps re-election campaign.

Theyve been high-profile couple for a while now, starting dating in 2015 when he was a rookie with the Mets, getting married in 2017 shortly after she was named spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, following a stint as a pro-Trump commentator on CNN.

Im kind of used to it now, Gilmartin said. Every team Ive been with the past couple years, 'Oh, I saw your wife on TV the other day. Its cool. Its fun to see.

But this is a big year for both of them.

McEnany is working to try to help Trump win re-election, traveling the country with and speaking on behalf of the controversial president.

And Gilmartin is working to try to win a job as a multi-inning lefty reliever with the Rays, which would make a huge difference in their family life, as they live in Tampa, and now have a baby daughter, Blake.

Having Sean with the Tampa Bay Rays is what weve been hoping and praying for, McEnany said, via email. We always dreamed of this happening but never knew it would become a reality. With a 3-month-old and me in a different state on the campaign trail almost daily, having Sean in Tampa is incredibly helpful.

"Just (in a recent) week, I was in Florida, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and California for the presidents rallies and television. Typically, my mom travels all across the nation with our baby and me.

Having Sean in Tampa means a lot more trips back to our permanent residence and the city Ive always known and loved.

McEnany grew up in and around Tampa, living for a while in Plant City, attending Academy of Holy Names from fifth grade on. Her family is deeply rooted in Tampa, owning the McEnany Roofing company, and, she said, holding Rays season tickets for close to 10 years.

McEnany, 31, likes to talk baseball.

I am so proud to tell my colleagues in politics and media about Seans career and his move to the Tampa Bay Rays, she said. I watch his games from the campaign headquarters, from airplanes, and all across the campaign trail.

Plus, theres another baseball connection inside the Trump campaign, as communications director Tim Murtaugh is the grandson of longtime Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh. Its nice to have a boss whos interested in and understands my husbands career, McEnany said.

Gilmartin, conversely, doesnt talk much about his wifes job in his workplace.

Politics are not often a topic of conversation in a major-league clubhouse, where there can be significant differences in opinion given the diverse mix of people based on geographical, ethnic, financial, societal and philosophical backgrounds.

I try to keep that separate because nobody really cares what I have to say about that kind of stuff, he said.

Especially how hot of a topic it will be this year.

Absolutely, I get it, said Gilmartin, 29, who signed a minor-league deal with the Rays. Going forward I wont get too involved.

When Gilmartin and McEnany are together, they do talk politics, and Trump.

Its always pretty much right at the forefront, which is fine, he said. We both have our opinions. We align fairly evenly on stuff like that, but thats probably as far as Im going to go right now with that.

Plus they get feedback anyway.

We get our fair share of criticism, for sure, he said. Just the comments people leave on Twitter or social media or whatever. All that kind of stuff. Its interesting.

Not so much to McEnany.

Neither of us has time to focus on social media feedback, she said. We both have a singular focus and a united purpose: For me, its re-electing President Trump. For Sean, its getting outs and helping the team win. Together, its raising our beautiful daughter and raising a family that walks in the footsteps of Christ.

There is something they dont seem to agree on: Who has the higher-leverage assignment?

She has a more stressful job than I have, Ill be honest with you,'' Gilmartin said. "Shes a go-getter.''

Being President Trumps campaign press secretary involves hard work and commitment and is truly the honor of a lifetime, McEnany said. But, stress-wise, nothing compares to a full count, two outs, bases loaded, and the game on the line.

Contact Marc Topkin at mtopkin@tampabay.com. Follow @TBTimes_Rays

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The coronavirus crisis is a war against a disease, but its also the most serious battle yet in the war on truth. That much was clear from the start, as China moved to hush up the first outbreak and gag the doctor who had spotted it. It was a classic case of what we might call Chernobyl syndrome: the tendency of authoritarian systems to react to disaster by rushing to downplay or cover up the problem, focusing more on shifting blame than tackling the threat head on. Viewers of last years TV dramatisation of the Chernobyl nuclear accident could recognise the pattern immediately, as the priority of those in charge becomes avoiding embarrassment rather than saving lives.

There was some of that in the Iranian reaction to the virus, as the countrys deputy health minister coughed and sweated his way through a press conference called to reassure citizens, only later for it to be confirmed that he had himself been infected. (There were already suspicions, since Tehrans official numbers didnt add up.) And there was a grim logic to the fact that at the heart of the outbreak in South Korea is a religious sect similarly devoid of transparency.

Usually, the democratic world can contrast itself flatteringly with such closed, controlled societies, proud that its approach to calamity is openness and the free flow of information. Indeed, crises like this one can serve as test cases for the competing merits of free systems v authoritarian ones. True, democracies cannot match Beijings ability to lock down whole cities and build an entire hospital in a week. But when it comes to a global pandemic, its free speech, full disclosure and cross-border scientific cooperation that ultimately save lives.

The World Health Organization is recommending that people take simple precautions to reduce exposure to and transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus, for which there is no specific cure or vaccine.

The UN agencyadvisespeople to:

Despite a surge in sales of face masks in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak, experts are divided over whether they can prevent transmission and infection. There is some evidence to suggest that masks can help prevent hand-to-mouth transmissions, given the large number of times people touch their faces. The consensus appears to be that wearing a mask can limit but not eliminate the risks, provided it is used correctly.

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Except this time, the familiar authoritarian v democratic contrast has become muddled. Thats because the current leader of the worlds most powerful democracy, the US, has the same instincts as the authoritarian rulers he so admires, and those instincts have coloured his response to coronavirus. The result is that what for many must have seemed an abstract concern Donald Trumps assault on facts, experts and science is now a matter of life and death.

So while US medical officials have been at pains to brace Americans for the inevitability of coronavirus a matter of when, not if Trump and his outriders have worked hard to minimise the threat. On Thursday, Trump repeatedly referred to the figure of 15 cases in the US, when the actual figure was 60, and promised that that number would go down rather than up: Its going to disappear. One day its like a miracle, it will disappear.

Trumps chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, breezily assured the US public that the bug had been contained and that the country was sealed pretty close to airtight against the disease, when of course it is not. One of the administrations most influential propagandists for whom Trump paused his state of the union address this month so that his wife, Melania, might garland him with Americas highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom the talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has been telling his vast audience that the coronavirus is the common cold, folks, and that it had been overhyped and weaponised to bring down Donald Trump.

Trump has nodded in a similarly conspiracist direction, tweeting that the media are doing all they can to make the Caronavirus [sic] look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. That reference to the markets is key. Trump believes his chances of re-election in November hinge on his stewardship of the economy, betting that voters will back him if their pensions linked to the stock market are up. That the Dow Jones suffered the biggest one-day drop in its history on Thursday has him rattled.

And so his first instinct is that of the Manhattan hustler-hotelier loudly assuring guests that the strong smell of burning coming from the ground floor is merely the chef trying out a new barbecue rather than a sign that the building is on fire. Crucial to that effort is talking loudly over the fire marshals, or even gagging them altogether.

You could see that when Trump spoke in the White House briefing room, brazenly contradicting the experts by his side. But its now become formal policy, with Trumps insistence that all federal officials including those with deep scientific expertise are to say nothing that has not first been authorised by the White House.

Note the fate of Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. On Thursday he dared say that we are dealing with a serious virus with a higher mortality rate than regular flu. That was deemed insufficiently upbeat for the great leader. According to the New York Times, Dr Fauci has told associates that the White House had instructed him not to say anything else without clearance.

The new mantra, it seems, is to be one of Trumps favourite phrases: repeated again on Thursday: Nobody really knows. That could be the motto of post-truthists such as Trump, conveying the hope that voters will become confused, concluding that no truth is ever even possible, and that in the fog of information and rumour its best simply to trust the man in charge. Thats what Trump wants every American to believe, about coronavirus and everything else for that matter: nobody really knows.

Now Trump has put his slavishly deferential vice-president, Mike Pence, in charge of the coronavirus effort. Put aside Pences appalling record as governor of Indiana, when his response to an HIV outbreak was to veto a medically recommended needle exchange programme and to offer his prayers instead.

Focus instead on the fact that Pence has been appointed over the head of the health secretary, Alex Azar, whom Trump deemed too alarmist. In that same spirit, Trump has gutted the very agencies that the US will now desperately rely on. In 2018, he slashed health spending by $15bn, binning the Obama-era programmes and teams established for the express purpose of leading the US response to a pandemic. Among those cut: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now in the frontline against coronavirus which was forced to reduce by 80% its efforts to prevent global disease outbreak. The consequences are clear enough: only eight of the USs 100 public-health labs are now even able to test for Covid-19.

This onslaught against the health agencies is of a piece with Trumps entire approach to data, science and truth. You might remember Sharpiegate, when the president all but got out a black marker pen and amended a map issued by the key US meteorological agency so that it appeared to support his tweeted, and false, claim that Alabama was about to get hit by a hurricane. Trump has installed cronies and business pals at the helm of a raft of agencies previously respected as providers of neutral, factual data, the better to ensure those bodies say only what he wants them to say. He has moved to shrink their budgets whether at the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps or the Census Bureau and allowed experts with deep knowledge to retire and not be replaced.

We cant say we werent warned. On Trumps first full day in office, he telephoned the head of the National Park Service, angered by photographs showing that crowds that had gathered for his inauguration the previous day were smaller than those for Barack Obama. The head of the NPS duly passed on the instruction from the president, and new, more flattering images appeared.

We laughed about it at the time because it was so petty, so vain and so trivial. But the mindset was clear. The US president is a man who does not want the facts or the truth. He wants only what makes him look good. That impulse might not have mattered much in January 2017. But it matters gravely now.

Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist

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Pennsylvanians went a different direction in 2016, voting Republican for president for the first time since 1984. They have been rewarded mightily for that decision.

The Democrat Party used to dominate presidential politics in the Keystone State, but times have changed millions of forgotten Pennsylvania workers turned to Donald Trump after being let down by Democrat politicians who consistently failed to keep their promises. For almost 10 years, our state suffered one of the weakest economic recoveries in history. President Obama told us to accept economic decline as the new normal.

But President Trump has given the Commonwealth hope it hasnt felt in decades. We are now in the midst of a blue-collar boom that has lifted our friends and neighbors out of poverty and restored their dignity through work. Our economic engine is roaring because President Trump and Congressional Republicans cut taxes for the middle class, saving Pennsylvania workers an average of $1,427 on their federal income taxes in 2018. Moreover, the presidents elimination of Obama-era regulations have led to massive growth, especially in the energy sector.

At the tail end of Obamas presidency, the number of jobs in the oil and gas industries had shrunk by 32 percent, but things quickly turned around when Donald Trump took office. By 2018, Pennsylvanias natural gas production was once again setting all-time highs. As a result, Pennsylvanians no longer depend on foreign nations to heat their homes, and theyre back to work producing natural gas for sale abroad, because America is now the worlds largest energy exporter.

Other sectors of the energy industry are also booming. Fracking, which supports thousands of jobs and generates tens of billions of dollars in economic activity in our state, has particularly benefited from this the presidents commitment to eliminating harmful regulations.

Speaking of exports, President Trump has successfully negotiated better trade deals that promote American workers with some of our largest trading partners. He promised to end the failed North American Free Trade Agreement that shipped so many Pennsylvania jobs to Mexico and Canada, and the ink is now dry on its replacement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The president also committed to standing up to China for its unfair trade practices, and he recently signed the Phase One agreement that is a first step toward re-balancing the U.S.-China trade relationship. Future trade deals with Great Britain and the European Union will yield even more gains for working families.

Predictably, all of these economic successes have had a transformative effect on the Keystone State. Pennsylvanias unemployment rate has plummeted. In fact, our manufacturing, construction, and mining sectors are all better off today than they were just three short years ago a clear sign that the economic policies of this administration are getting the results the president promised.

Of course, the ongoing blue-collar boom extends far beyond the Commonwealth. Nationwide, the bottom 50 percent of wage-earners have enjoyed a 47 percent increase in their net worth since 2017, outpacing net wealth accumulation of the richest 1 percent. The median household income has increased by more than $5,000, an all-time high. Workers are now experiencing greater wage growth than their managers and supervisors. The president noted this in a recent rally when he said: Under the Trump economy, the lowest paid earners are reaping the fastest gains of anybody!

Furthermore, the Council of Economic Advisers recently highlighted that real total nonprofit and household net wealth in America has increased by more than $12 trillion in the first 11 quarters under President Trump yet another economic record.

Remarkably, Democrats are telling workers that they arent really better off. Nancy Pelosi tore up a copy of the presidents recent State of the Union Address, calling it a manifesto of mistruths. Her desire for power and disdain for this president have led her party to deny the obvious fact that this is the best American economy in half a century.

Instead of working with Republicans to build on this success, they want to repeal and rescind the policies that got us here, throwing tantrums along the way. We cant let that happen. Americans finally have a president that keeps his promises and believes in them, and he is promising now that the best is yet to come.

If we continue these policies, he will be right. We must keep Pennsylvania red and re-elect President Donald Trump in November. He is standing up for our values and fighting harder than any previous president to make America - and the Keystone State - great again.

Mike Kelly is a U.S. Representative for Pennsylvanias 16th congressional district and is running for re-election.

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