Trump Expands Offshore Drilling Moratorium During FL Rally: WATCH

JUPITER, FL — After passing throngs of flag-waving Floridians in his motorcade, President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a presidential order extending and expanding an offshore drilling moratorium in Florida and two other states during a campaign rally about 25 miles from his Mar-a-Lago resort.

"With fracking, the shale revolution and the tremendous surge in American energy production, we’re showing that we can create jobs, safeguard the environment and keep energy prices low for America and low for our citizens," Trump told an invitation-only crowd, which included Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham.

No one, including the president, appeared to be wearing masks during the campaign rally at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum.

Trump said his presidential order extended the offshore drilling moratorium on Florida's Gulf coast and expanded it to include Florida's Atlantic coast as well as the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina.

“Thanks to my administration’s pro-American energy policies we can take this step and the next step while remaining the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world," Trump said. "You also see it when you pump the gas into your car and you’re paying sometimes a lot less than $2 lately."

In contrast, the president said former Vice President Joe Biden would give away America's energy independence.

"The approach of Joe Biden and the radical left is exactly the opposite," the president insisted. "Their policies will destroy jobs, cause energy prices to double and triple and quadruple — to skyrocket beyond belief and the environment will be badly hurt."

Trump said he signed the Great American Outdoors Act last month, which he described as the most significant investment in national parks since Theodore Roosevelt was president during the early 1900s.

"Number one environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt," Trump boasted. "Who would have thought? Trump is the great environmentalist.”

The president said Florida would benefit from that legislation as well. “Through this legislation we’re providing nearly $10 billion for long delayed maintenance projects at our national parks and Florida is helped as much as anybody — and maybe more," he said.

Hundreds of the president's supporters took to the Intracoastal Waterway on Labor Day ahead of Tuesday's rally, which was held in Palm Beach County, one of of the hardest hit counties from the coronavirus.

The rally came on the same day the county moved to phase two of its reopening after reporting lower positivity rates in recent weeks.

Before boarding Air Force One on Tuesday, the president said he would be willing to put his own money into his campaign if necessary.

“If I have to I would, but we’re doing very well," Trump said. "We we needed to spend more money up front because of the pandemic and the statements being made by democrats."

The president repeated his earlier claim that the development of a vaccine looks "very good" and touted the country's recent job numbers.

Watch the president's rally in Jupiter below: