Trump Thanks the Coast Guard: ‘I Just Want to Thank You on Behalf of the Whole Country’

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TRUMP: "We went together to Texas and we saw what you were doing, and you just followed that storm. Right next to that storm you just -- and saved so many people. I still haven’t figured out how people take their boats out into a hurricane. Someday you’ll explain it. Gene was just telling me that they actually do it to save their boat in many cases. But they aren’t thinking about their life, they’re thinking about their boats. And I -- I don’t know, I mean, they go out in a boat and they think, I guess, they're -- you know, they've got a wonderful boat, they've had it for years, it can weather anything and then they have 25-foot waves crashing down. And that would be the end of them. But -- so you saved a lot of people. And I just want to thank you on behalf of the whole country and on behalf of us, what a job you have done, and thank you all very much."