In-town pool report #3: More quotes

The president walked back inside through the south portico at 10:38 a.m. after talking and taking photos with the crew working on the flag pole.

More quotes below. Check against the otters here. Thanks to secondary print pooler Hugo Lowell for contributing:

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Part 2 https://otter.ai/u/mUbVtBAUxPaMlikmZCt4JFSpV4E

Netanyahu:

“He has been treated very unfairly. He's a wartime president. Going through this nonsense, ridiculous.

Iran and what “Unconditional surrender” means:

“You know what it means.

“That means I’ve had it. I’ve had it. I give up. No more. And we don’t blow up all the nuclear stuff that’s all over the place.

“For 40 years they’ve been saying ‘Death to America, Death to Israel … they were bullies, they were school yard bullies, and now they're not bullies anymore. But we'll see what happens, right?

“Nothing's finished until it's finished. You know, war is very complex. A lot of bad things can happen. A lot of turns are made. So I don't know. I wouldn't say that we want anything yet. I would say that we sure as hell made a lot of progress.

“And the next week is going to be very big, maybe less than a week, maybe less.”

When patience runs out with Iran:

“It’s already run out.

“They had 60 days … plenty of time, and they made a mistake.”

Russia-Ukraine war:

“Russia-Ukraine is so stupid. Would have never happened if I was president. You guys agree with that. Would have never happened if I was President.

“Putin would have never done it. And I spoke to him yesterday, and I said, you know, he actually offered to help mediate. I said, do me a favor, mediate your own. Let's mediate Russia first. Okay, I said, Vladimir, let's mediate Russia first. You can worry about this later, but I think that's going to work out too. But it's so many people have been killed. The big thing with that one is far more people are dead than have been reported in the Ukraine.”

Iranian people:

“I know a lot of people from Iran, from New York, from Washington, mostly from New York. They're incredible people. They're smart, they're energetic. They can be difficult, but so can you.

“They're great people, smart people, and those people are getting the hell beat out of them. It’s a shame. It’s so stupid.

His meeting today w/ Pakistan Chief of Army Staff of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

“Well, I stopped the war between Pakistan. I love Pakistan. I think Modi is a fantastic man. I spoke to him last night. We're going to make a trade deal with with Modi of India. I stopped the war between Pakistan and India. This man was extremely influential in stopping it from the Pakistan side, Modi from the India side, and others, and they were going at it. And they're both nuclear countries. I got it stopped. I

G7:

“We enjoyed Canada, and had to come back, obviously, for what’s happening in the Middle East. But I got everything done. He's a good man. I think carney is a good man, a good representative of Canada.”

NATO:

POTUS said he still plans to go.

Rift in MAGA over US getting involved in Iran:

“My supporters are more in love with me today than they were even at the election.”

“We’re not looking for long-term” war.

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and I’ve been saying that for 20 years.

“So I may have some people that are a little bit unhappy now, but I have some people that are very happy. We have people outside of the base that can't believe that this is happening, they’re so happy.”

TikTok:

“We're going to extend it. We're going to probably make a deal. I think we'll need China's blessing on it. I think they'll bless

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Natalie Allison

White House Reporter

The Washington Post