Trump turned his police-reform announcement into a rambling campaign rally about jobs, the stock market, and his response to the coronavirus

• President Donald Trump's remarks on a new executive order for police reform turned very random very quickly Tuesday afternoon when he veered off script.
• Trump initially stuck to reading the teleprompter, outlining how choke holds will be banned unless a police officer's life is in danger.
• But then he called school choice "the civil-rights issue of our time," complimented doctors on an AIDS vaccine that does not exist, and praised the stock market.

In an address about a new executive order for police reform, President Donald Trump went into campaign-rally mode.

Trump briefly stuck to the script on the teleprompter, outlining how choke holds will be banned unless a police officer's life is in danger and encouraging departments to raise their use-of-force standards.

He then started riffing, saying former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden did nothing for police reform — even though they did and the Trump administration reversed many of those measures — before going into his usual rotation of random topics that he hits during campaign rallies.

Trump touted how great he made the economy before the coronavirus hit and how it would be "better than ever before."

He praised doctors for an AIDS vaccine that does not exist, later adding a line about therapeutics after apparently realizing his mistake.

"They've come up with the AIDS vaccine," Trump said, adding, "The therapeutic for AIDS — AIDS was a death sentence and now people live a life with a pill."

He touted his administration's efforts to boost funding for historically Black colleges and universities and called school choice "the civil-rights issue of our time" as well as the "civil-rights statement of the year, of the decade and probably beyond."

The president occasionally returned to the subject at hand, but he leaned much more heavily into praising police and calling for "law and order" rather than expressing sympathy for protesters and the Black community.

"Americans want law and order," Trump said. "They demand law and order. They may not say it; they may not be talking about it, but that's what they want. Some of them don't even know that that's what they want. But that's what they want."

Trump also went on a tangent about 9/11, complimenting first responders for their bravery on a day when he bragged about having the tallest building in lower Manhattan after the towers fell.

As he waxed poetic about the pre-coronavirus economy, Trump said, "Everybody was thrilled. Everybody had — just about — high-paying jobs."

He bragged about a rebound in retail sales and returned to his typically optimistic rhetoric on bouncing back from the coronavirus.

"I always say, even without it, it goes away," Trump said, referring to a vaccine for the coronavirus. "But if we had the vaccine, and we will, if we had therapeutic or cure — one thing sort of blends into the other — it will be a fantastic day, and I think that's going to happen, and it's going to happen very soon."

After he signed the executive order while flanked by various law-enforcement representatives, Trump left the Rose Garden without taking any questions.