In-Town Pool Report 4 - more Oval Spray on Musk, Putin, Ukraine

Pool was escorted out of Oval Office at 12:27pm

*** More on Elon Musk

After talking about economy and ramped up immigration enforcement:

“We’ve done a good job. Elon knew that…”

Reiterated his surprise of Musk criticizing bill:

“Elon knew the inner workings of this bill…

“He never had a problem until right after he left…”

“I’m very disappointed in Elon”

“I think he misses the place…”

“People leave my administration and they love us and then at some point they miss it so badly..” said some leave and become “hostile.”

** on PUTIN

He got hit. He’s been hitting

I think mistakes were made by him.

"There's some bad blood between the two...i have to deal with it"

"There's some additional fighting that's going to go on."

"I'll never get credit," he says of stopping war between Pakistan and India

Asked whether he supports Ukraine, notes recent mineral deal and said "I'm for stopping killing."

POTUS said US receives images of battlefields: "Bodies, arms, heads, legs all over the place"

** on military recruitment

Touted increased enrollment in U.s. military

We have waiting lists of people waiting to get in

Asked about Graham bill on tariffs:

"they're waiting for me to decide what to do."

More on Autopen:

Said people using auto-pen did not have same ideology as Biden

"Those are not the same people who had the same ideology as Joe Biden."

Laura Figueroa Hernandez

White House Correspondent

Newsday

Twitter: @Laura_Figueroa

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