Trump rings in new year at glitzy Mar-a-Lago party, predicts 'fantastic 2018'

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At a lavish New Year’s Eve party at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club, the president promised 2018 would be fantastic. He also briefly addresses the leader of North Korea’s claims that he has a nuclear button on his desk.
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PALM BEACH, Fla. – Bidding farewell to 2017 with a lavish party at his private club, President Donald Trump predicted 2018 will be a “tremendous year.”

Trump said Sunday that the stock market will continue to rise and that companies are going to continue to come into the U.S., at “a rapid clip.” He also cited several accomplishments, including the tax overhaul, opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, and repealing the individual mandate from the national health care law.

“It will be a fantastic 2018,” a tuxedoed Trump said, as he entered the gilded ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump and son Barron.

Asked for his reaction to North Korea leader Kim Jon Un’s remarks about having a nuclear button on his desk, Trump responded by saying, “We’ll see.”

Guests gathered in the decorated ballroom included senior White House advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Tickets went for $600 and up, Politico reported.

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President Trump meets Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, second from left, with his wife Merle Bari, left clockwise, Trump, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and his wife Hilary Geary, right, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his fiancee Scottish actress Louise Linton, together with other members of his cabinet and the White House staff on March 11, 2017, at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va. Trump spent time at the Sterling, Va. Golf club during 9 weekends while staying in D.C. 
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