Out of town travel pool 15: More from Trump-Starmer bilat
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- Monday, June 16, 2025, 3:29 PM
Some more below in chronological order, but pulling out up top Trump's response to criticism from Tucker Carlson that the president is "complicit" in the Israel-Iran conflict: "I don't know what Tucker Carlson has said. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen."
At the beginning of their remarks, Trump opened a folder to show the press the order on the US-UK trade deal and several pages fell out and onto the ground. Starmer joked, "very important document" as he helped pick up some of the pages.
Trump also at one point called it a "trade agreement with the European Union." He called the agreement "a great deal for both, going to produce a lot of jobs, a lot of income." He also said that "we have many, many other ones coming" in reference to trade deals with other countries.
Starmer in his opening remarks said the agreement "implements on car tariffs and aerospace, and now a really important agreement, and so this is a very good day"
During the Q&A, Trump appeared to dismiss suggestions that Israel had attacked Iran to deliberately derail the U.S.'s nuclear talks by shaking his head.
On restarting US-Russia talks, Trump said "They're starting already"
On sanctioning Russia, Trump appeared skeptical still: "Sanctions cost us a lot of money. When I sanction countries, that costs the US a lot of money, a tremendous amount of money"
"You're talking about billions and billions of dollars, sanctions are not that easy, it's not just a one-way street"
On whether Israel can eliminate the nuclear threat in Iran without the help of the US: "It's irrelevant, something's going to happen"
On whether Trump would consider traveling to the Middle East to help broker a deal: "Yeah, but I think we're doing pretty well and we're talking. We have a thing called the telephone, so, we're talking."
On tariffs, whether Trump could guarantee the UK wouldn't be subject to future tariffs: "The UK is very well protected, you know why? Because I like him. That's their ultimate protection."
Trump also had warm words at the end for Starmer: "The prime minister's done a great job. I want to just tell that to the people of the United Kingdom, he's done a very, very good job."
As always please check quotes against the video. And another schedule change: The third multilateral session that was originally open to a restricted travel pool has now been changed to closed press.
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