Trump lauds stock market gains, dodges questions from reporters
In his first appearance since the transition became official, Trump spoke for just 66 seconds in the White House briefing room about the Dow Jones Industrial Average trading above 30,000.
He made no reference to the election or the GSA, and made only a passing reference to the pandemic.

The president refused to take shouted questions from reporters during the brief news conference. This marks the 21st day in a row that the Trump has refused to take questions from reporters, despite continuing to promote baseless conspiracy theories about the election on Twitter."
The stock market’s just broken 30,000. Never been broken, that number," Trump said. "I just want to congratulate all the people within the administration that worked so hard."
Notably, Trump was singing a very different tune Tuesday than he did while campaigning when he repeatedly warned that the stock market would “crash” if Biden won the election.
“If he is elected, the stock market will crash,” Trump said during an Oct. 22 debate.
In reality, markets have rallied sharply since Trump lost the election.
-ABC News' Ben Gittleson





