From Danny KEMPSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025 2:47 PM
Trump said he wouldn’t take questions because he had a presser later and didn’t want to hold up the Dutch PM, but then he did. Trump said ‘of course’ he would stand up for NATO Article. ‘Why would I be here?’ ‘If i didn’t stand with it, why would I be here?’ Trump also pointed to the Israeli atomic commission statement that the WH had just forwarded, plus what he said was a report by Iranian authorities. ‘It was com…
From Danny KEMPSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 2:33 PM
The White House just asked the pool to push along the following picture of a statement that says it’s on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. Danny Kemp AFP White House correspondent XXX-XXX-XXXX @dannyctkemp
From Danny KEMPSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 2:34 PM
Pool was led into the same small room as earlier for a bilateral between President Trump and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof at 2.33pm Otter here: https://otter.ai/u/b0rta0l_c3sTgvaUDMqcwvCXXJM Danny Kemp AFP White House correspondent XXX-XXX-XXXX @dannyctkemp
From Danny KempSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 11:23 AM
Further quotes from the Trump and Rutte greeting. Pool is now holding in the low-ceilinged basement press room. A ‘North Atlantic Council Plenary Session’ at 10.30am ended up being visuals only, despite print pool’s best efforts to request acccess. Trump on his goals for Article V: “We're with them all the way. If you take a look at the numbers we're with them and they have very big things to announce today, I don't…
From Danny KempSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 10:41 AM
After opening comments Trump was asked several questions about Iran. Trump insisted there was ‘total obliteration’ at Iran nuclear sites. Said Israeli intelligence was doing further assessments. ‘If that thing wasn’t devastated, they (Iranians) wouldn’t have settled’ Says Iranian nuclear program was put back ‘basically decades’ Trump also called CNN MSNBC and New York Times ‘scum’ Hegseth agreed on Iran and says the…
From Danny KempSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 10:27 AM
Pool was ushered into small room where President Trump and nato chief Rutte were sitting just after 10.20pm. Trump answered question about his commitment saying ‘we’re with them all the way’ The official livestream should be here https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/events_67375.htm Danny Kemp AFP White House correspondent XXX-XXX-XXXX (tel:XXX-XXX-XXXX) @dannyctkemp
From Danny KempSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 9:44 AM
After a route that took the motorcade right past the International Criminal Court (ICC) — which faces sanctions by the Trump administration — and a crowd of a few dozen bystanders, the motorcade arrived at the NATO summit venue at the World Forum at 9.41am. Again we didn’t see POTUS. President Trump posted about the ‘beautiful Netherlands,’ his ‘great’ breakfast with the royals and the NATO summit on the way. Danny…
From Danny KempSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 9:32 AM
Motorcade is rolling from Huis ten Bosch as of 9.30am. The Beast was just about visible through the trees but pool could not see POTUS directly Danny Kemp AFP White House correspondent XXX-XXX-XXXX (tel:XXX-XXX-XXXX) @dannyctkemp
From Danny KempSent Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 8:33 AM
Good morning from a sunny The Hague (a city your pooler was lucky enough to call home for five years). Pool is swept and holding on a leafy lane running through the woods surrounding the Royal Palace Huis ten Bosch, where President Trump spent the night as the guest of Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima. White House guidance had POTUS doing breakfast with the king and queen at 8.25am. One photographer from…
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From Natalie AllisonSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 3:20 PM
The White House called a travel and photo lid at 9:15 p.m. It was a pleasure being your print pooler today. Stay cool in DC, everyone! Goedenacht. — Natalie Allison White House Reporter The Washington Post
From Natalie AllisonSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 3:08 PM
At 8:58 p.m., the president came back outside Huis ten Bosch with other NATO leaders to pose for what the organizers of these summits refer to as the family photo. Other countries’ leaders began trickling out of the palace several minutes earlier to line up for the photo. Prior to Trump coming out, the red carpet briefly blew up in a gust of wind, prompting everyone else to shout “Woah!” The president was brought do…
From Natalie AllisonSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 2:41 PM
At 8:34 p.m., the motorcade arrived at Paleis Huis ten Bosch in The Hague, where the president is attending a social dinner tonight. According to NATO guidance, it is being hosted by King Williem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. After briefly holding, POTUS exited his limousine at 8:37 p.m. and walked alone up a red carpet to enter the palace. The motorcade traveled down an otherwise clo…
From Natalie AllisonSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 1:58 PM
President Trump exited Air Force One at 7:50 p.m., and put his white “USA” cap on before descending the stairs. He was greeted by a line of officials standing at the foot of the stairs. Among them was Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO. The White House said it could provide a full list later. Other press wearing neon orange vests were staged on risers to capture Trump’s arrival. It’s 30 degrees cooler her…
From Natalie AllisonSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 1:40 PM
Air Force One landed at Amsterdam Schipol airport at 7:36 p.m. local time after a 6 hour and 20 minute flight. President Trump came back to the press cabin an hour after takeoff, gaggling with the pool for about eight minutes. Quotes are below. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood behind him but did not speak. The president credited Israel backing off from further retaliation on Iran to his conversation with Netanya…
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From Linda FeldmannSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 10:22 AM
From WH press office: Link to audio of the AF1 gaggle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG9148Ljrco Linda Feldmann Washington Bureau Chief The Christian Science Monitor XXX-XXX-XXXX [EMAIL ADDRESS] (mailto:[EMAIL ADDRESS]) Twitter: @linda_feldmann ....... The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confi…
From Linda FeldmannSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 9:41 AM
Please see attached doc w/transcript of POTUS gaggle on AF1. Many thanks to Darlene Superville of AP for sharing! Trump - en route to NATO Speaker 1 [08:17:11] They were entitled to, but nobody thought that would have happened. But they had a very hard time that should have happened. And then, as you know, Iran hit them very hard last night because I don't think they would have, except for the first hard hit. And, I…
From Linda FeldmannSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 9:41 AM
Please see attached doc w/transcript of POTUS gaggle on AF1. Many thanks to Darlene Superville of AP for sharing! Speaker 1 [08:22:31] Then I said, you're going to have to lift it to 4% or 5%. That 5% is better. And they just I guess they're voting on that today, but they're going to be lifting it to 5%. That's good. It gives them much more power. Speaker 2 [08:22:43] Mr. president, if there's language in the final…
From Linda FeldmannSent Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 8:45 AM
From the WH press office: POTUS is gaggling on AF1 now, it should be played in the Press Briefing Room shortly. Linda Feldmann Washington Bureau Chief The Christian Science Monitor XXX-XXX-XXXX [EMAIL ADDRESS] (mailto:[EMAIL ADDRESS]) Twitter: @linda_feldmann ....... The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may…