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Trump Faces Friendly Crowd At VFW Convention

President Trump received an ovation when he told the assembled veterans that remains of U.S. Korean War dead would soon be repatriated from North Korea.
President Donald Trump seen on a video screen as he speaks at the 119th Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention, Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo.

President Trump delivered a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention in Kansas City, Mo., offering many of his regular talking points about everything from tariffs to immigration to the new American Embassy in Jerusalem.

Trump was interrupted repeatedly by applause

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