by Simon Kent at Breitbart
President-elect Donald Trump just can’t stop winning. On Thursday he rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange as he was confirmed TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” and was met by cheers and applause from the trading floor as well as cries of “USA… USA.”
Trump was on Wall Street to mark the ceremonial start of the day’s trading in a gesture first performed by fellow Republican President Ronald Reagan back in the mid-1980s.
Before he rang the opening bell at 9:30 a.m. Trump spoke at the exchange and called it “a tremendous honor.”
“Time Magazine, getting this honor for the second time, I think I like it better this time actually,” he said.
We Are SO Back! Trump Gives Remarks After Being Named Time’s “Person of the Year”
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AP reports in his remarks, the born-and-bred New Yorker talked up some of the people he has named to his incoming administration, including Treasury pick Scott Bessent, and some of his announced policies, including a promise this week that the federal government will issue expedited permits, including environmental approvals, for projects and construction worth more than $1 billion.
“I think we’re going to have…
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