Why Does President Trump Love Pensacola?

September 8, 2020 6:05pm

At today's event in Jupiter, Florida, President Trump signed an order that prohibits oil drilling off the Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina coasts until at least 2032.

During his speech, he said of Pensacola, "As long as I’m president of the United States, we will conserve this wondrous national inheritance from Key West to Key Biscayne, from Tampa to Tallahassee, from the Pensacola, beautiful Pensacola, I love Pensacola. I think it was 97%, that’s one of the reasons I like it. They say, 'How’d you do in Pensacola?' I said, 'Was that maybe 95? 97?' Right up there, so that helps. It’s amazing how that can help, isn’t it?"

I assume the "97%," "95," and "97" were referring to the percentage of the vote he got from Pensacola in 2016.

His actual percentage of the vote in Pensacola's two-county MSA was 63.47%.

But I suppose it's still nice for our community to be loved by the President of the United States.