Thread by @W7VOA

In Richfield, Ohio, @POTUS now making remarks on #infrastructure to union laborers.

"Plants and factories pouring back into our country. They can't come back fast enough."

"I never give up," says @POTUS of funding for the border wall.

"I think better than being president, I was always very good at building.”

"Frankly, our friends did more damage to us than our enemies," says @POTUS of trade deals.

"We were in a deal that was a horror show," says @POTUS of #KORUS FTA. "That was a Hillary Clinton special, I hate to say it."

"i may hold (the revised #KORUS FTA) up until a deal is made with North Korea... it's a very strong card and I want to make sure everybody is treated fairly."

This is the first mention by POTUS of holding hostage a trade deal with South Korea for a security pact with North Korea. Government officials in Seoul are likely being awakened there right now (3:18 am Friday).

"We cannot be complacent. We've got the greatest economy, maybe ever," says @POTUS of mid-term elections this year.

"We cannot let anything happen to stop what we're doing and where we're going."

"We're gonna protect our Second Amendment...we have the greatest judges."

"Your Second Amendment will always be your Second Amendment."

Now @POTUS says he's "going on a little detour for a second" after already venturing off script a number of times in this #infrastructure speech.

Ad-lib comments on school safety, opioids and drugs, the border wall now.

"I love the smell of a construction site. There's just something about it!"

"Now I've proven you've got a friend in the White House."

Keystone and Dakota pipelines "environmentally great."

Protesters turned pipeline site into "an environmentally wasteland...I approved it and they left."

"I think I've approved much more than I promised."

"We're doing incredible things on health care."

"Co-ops and all sorts of people...are going to buy their health care together...it's going to be so inexpensive...And we have other things."

Roads, bridges and power plants in the US "a total mess."

"We're all builders in this room. They're builders, no game."

"We have a border at Korea. We have a wall of soldiers. ... You look at that, nobody comes through."

"North and South Korea. 32,000 soldiers. Their finest equipment, barbed wire all over the place. We protect that whole thing."

"We'll be coming out of Syria like really soon."

"Nobody ever heard of the word 'trillion'" until 10 years ago, says @POTUS.

"We spent seven trillion dollars in the Middle East. You know what we have? Nothing."

"We didn't keep the oil. Stupid."

"The Democrats say: 'Don't give him any more wins.'"

"We're not gonna pay a trillion dollars to be in the Paris Accord...that was a disaster for this country."

"We're developing. Pay us some money," @POTUS says of concessions in the environmental pact given to developing nations.

"I wasn't happy with the speed with which our veterans were taken care of," @POTUS says of replacing @DeptVetAffairs secretary.

"We want them to have choice so they can run to a private doctor...it's gonna get done."

"Call it vocational and technical, perhaps" because "we don't know what a 'community college' means"

A shoutout now to two of his daughters in attendance today in Ohio: "Ivanka and Tiffany."

"I hope to get it down to a one year period," for environmental permit approval times.

"We want a safe country. We want safety."

"We don't give up. We don't give up."

Now discussing @therealroseanne ratings for her new TV show.

And that's it -- 52 minutes.