Trump news: President says Bahamas full of 'bad gang members', as official threatens to fire NOAA employees over Hurricane Dorian claims
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Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina on Monday in support of Republican Mark Harris, who faces a strong challenge in a special election in a district that the president carried overwhelmingly in 2016.
During an impromptu press conference before boarding his plane to that state, Mr Trump shocked reports by telling them that he is hesitant to allow Bahamians to enter the US after Hurricane Dorian because the island is full of "bad gang members". Also during that press conference, the president repeatedly said that Barack Obama had given him a present by leaving judicial vacancies, and repeatedly insisted that pundits had misanalysed the 2018 election results — in which Republicans lost control of the House — because his party had retained control of the Senate in an election year that favoured the GOP.
Speaking of Hurricane Dorian, Mr Trump's use of a sharpie to modify a hurricane projection map has kept in the news, with reports indicating that employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had been threatened by the Commerce Department if they contradicted the commander-in-chief when he claimed that the storm was set to smash into Alabama.
As Mr Trump returns to campaign mode once again, the president has also faced a burgeoning field of Republican challengers to him in 2020, prompting him to declare that he would not join a debate stage with any of them.
Mr Trump also engaged in a fight with Chrissy Teigen and her husband, John Legend, who called the president a "p**** a** b****".
And, Mr Trump has also been accused of treating foreign policy "like a gameshow", after talks with the Taliban broke down before they even started at Camp David.
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Mr Trump says that "we are talking about a lot of different things" when it comes to gun control, but says the US needs to "protect our Second Amendment and we will be doing it very strongly."
Mr Trump defends his plans to host the Taliban at Camp David, and says he still believes it would have been a good spot for such a meeting.
"We're looking very much at human smuggling, and if you look at trafficking as they call it... we're bringing it down to a much lower level," Mr Trump said of the recent numbers.
Mr Trump says "we'll see what happens" when asked about potentially meeting with Kim Jong Un again.
"The Bahamas got hit like no think that I've ever seen," Mr Trump said of Hurricane Dorian.
"It was like a massive tornado more than a hurricane," he continued.
Mr Trump is once again saying Barack Obama gave him "138 judges".
Mr Trump is defending Republican electoral losses in 2018, saying that he believes candidates won in states where he was asked to campaign.
"The big thing is I was not running," Mr Trump said of electoral losses, as he heads off to North Carolina.
Mr Trump defends Mike Pence's decision to stay in his Ireland resort, saying he did not know about it but that he has "good taste".
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