President Donald J. Trump
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It'll be too far gone.
But we're going to...
have great people.
When I came in originally, I didn't know anybody in Washington.
I was only there 17 times.
You may have heard me say this.
I never stayed over.
I built a hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, which was a great hotel and very successful, and then sold it.
And then what happened is I didn't really know anybody in Washington.
I was a New York person.
I wasn't like a Washington, D.C.
person.
And all of a sudden, I'm president, and I'm driving down Pennsylvania Avenue with more
police and motorcycles and military that I've ever seen before in my life.
I said to my wife, do you believe this?
No precedent.
But I didn't know anybody in Washington.
And I had to rely on people to give me names.
And many were really good.
I mean, Bob Lighthizer.