In-Town Pool #4 - Trump Gaggles on AF1

Hi All - Your in-town pooler was informed that President Trump gaggled with reporters aboard Air Force One in route to Rome.

Here's a YouTube link to the audio: https://www.youtube.com/live/MZTUjr_lUiw

A note that the first four minutes of the feed appears to have some audio issues.

Some topics and quotes:

Trade talks with China:

"Free up China, you know, let us go in and work China. Because, frankly, that's what we wanted... we almost got it, and then they backed out of that deal, but we had it to go into China and to sell our product, sell our wares. In other words, it's called to open China. That would be great. That would be a big win, but I'm not even sure I'm going to ask for it because they don't want it open, but because the tariffs I could possibly get that. What do you think opening up China would be a big win? Right? The problem is, no matter how big the win is, the press will not give me credit for it. If I got the greatest win in history, if I got he'll pay us trillions and trillions of dollars. He'll give us anything we want. The press will say, Trump...he just had a terrible defeat. He suffered a terrible defeat. The people now, no, I think we're going to have a lot of big wins. I don't know if it's going to be covered that way by the fake news, but the winds are going to be very substantial.

San Francisco judge ruling against administration's withholding of funds from sanctuary cities

"Weshouldclosedownsanctuarycities.Weshouldn'thavesanctuarycities,andwe'llseehowthatturnsout."

Texas Senate primary between Cornyn and Paxton:

"They're both friends of mine. I like them both, in a way. I wish they weren't running against each other, but I like Paxton. I like Gordon. They're both good people, so I'll make a decision somewhere. But two very good men."

Potential additional 90-day pause:

"We'll have deals made, but we'll also make deals. We just set the tariff, and will be reasonable, very reasonable, and that'll be the end of the deal. We set the price. They want to come in now. They set the price with that country, but everybody wants to come into hours.

Markets adjusting to tariffs:

"We said there'd be a transition. People haven't understood it. Now they're starting to understand Think of it this way, we've lost millions of dollars a day for years. Millions not going to happen. We're going to make millions of dollars a day because that's not sustainable

Concerns about insider trading:

"I can commit to myself. That's all I can commit to. Thousands of people work for me. But I can't imagine anybody doing this. I have very honorable people... So I can't even imagine it."3

Iran Deal:

"Havinganuclearweaponisreallyexpensive,butit'salsoverydangerous,andtheycan'thaveanuclearweapon...theIrandealiscomingalongverywell.We'redealingatthehighestlevelsinfrontandIthinktheywanttomakeadeal.Andwewanttomakeadeal."

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