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Cincinnati (CNN) President Donald Trump traveled 400 miles to Cincinnati on Wednesday to push his plan to upgrade the United States' inland waterway system of locks and dams, promising that he would not allow the United States to "become a museum of former glories."

Though Trump stuck to the script, only veering from infrastructure to talk about health care briefly, his top White House aides were focused on what will happen less than two miles down Pennsylvania Avenue on Thursday, when James Comey is slated to deliver bombshell testimony about the former FBI director's conversations with the President and his eventual firing.

Comey's testimony has all but stalled Trump's legislative agenda, but the White House has tried to soldier on during what has been a bruising week.

Trump, too, tried to ignore the controversy on Wednesday. Asked by CNN whether he is concerned by what Comey will say to Congress, Trump smiled but ignored the question before getting into his limousine.

During his speech on Wednesday, though, the controversy that the President has inspired in his first months in office was clearly on his mind.

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