Travel pool report #16 — full gaggle quotes/otter

Apologies for the delay... it looks like this last note got caught up in my outbox, but Otter and quotes of Trump on AF1. POTUS is bolded

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We had a big day today. The bill passed, and I think it's going to do very well in the house. We'll see how that works out, but it looks like it's ahead of schedule. We'll see what happens. I'm happy about it. This was great today, going down to Florida and seeing what Homeland and Ron and everybody else have been able to do in a very short period of time. I'm happy about it. I hope you enjoyed it. Go ahead.

Give us an update on Massie.

What about?

Just give us a little idea of not only who you want —

I just don't think he does a good job for the country. He's always a no. They call him Rand Paul JR. He's always a no. Nothing constructive at all, at all. Just terrible. Thomas Massie from Kentucky, and nothing constructive. I don't think he's a very smart guy, good education, but that's about it.

I guess, what I should have asked is, to what degree are you trying to make an example out of him?

I don't think about him. If I oppose somebody, I oppose somebody. For some reason, voters almost always — they seem to go along with me because they know I'm working hard. I have a nice high IQ they like that. You know, we like high IQ people, but they know I make good decisions. That's why we have to add Trump was right about everything. But, you know, I don't like guys like they just keep saying no, I vote, no, I vote, no. There's no, nothing. Let him do something. Let him get what he wants to vote to vote yes, but if you look at his voting record it's always against.

So who do you like?

he's going to have a big opponent, a good opponent, who's going to win. A poll just came out and it showed anybody I endorse against Massie. Massie loses by 25 points. So he's going to be history.

Sir, how much arm twisting do you have to do to get it past the House now. What's your game plan for that?

I felt the Senate was going to be tougher than the House. We got there, we got pretty much what we wanted. It's an amazing, in fact it's the biggest bill ever passed if we get this done. You know, most of the people wanted seven or eight different bills, and I thought that was tougher, because it'd be 100% this bill has something for everybody by doing it this way. I'm happy about it. I'm happy with the result

Are you concerned they're going to make further changes in the House?

Well, they're going to ask for certain changes. I don't know. I mean, I guess what would happen if that happens? You'd have to run it fast pass the Senate so, you know, it never ends. I don't know if that's going to happen.

Do you think it's so possible to get this done by Friday?

On occasion that will happen when they'll make a change and they'll get it passed, so it can go pretty quickly. But I think the Senate was very big, and they worked very hard. I didn't get along with Tillis, and he resigned.

Who do you want to run for that seat, sir? Thom Tillis's seat.

Somebody that would really be great is Lara. She grew up there, but they live in Florida. They have a very good life, and they, you know, they're great people. She did fantastically running the RNC. She's even got a show that's like the number one show, and Mark Levin is, likewise. I mean, they have the number one number two show over the weekend. She's a great person. Lara Trump, I mean, that would always be my first choice, but she doesn't live there now, but she's there all the time, her parents, and, you know, she really knows North Carolina well, I won it three times. I don't know who the candidates are going to be. I think you're gonna have one of the congressmen

step up but she'd do very well.

So has she talked to you about it at all?

No, no. It's too soon. I had it out with this guy two nights ago, and he resigned, which I was happy about. He did us all a favor.

Sir, you spent a lot of time with Secretary Noem today, obviously. Did you discuss with her at all this report about an $80,000 dark money payment she received in '23 and appears to have been kept off her federal disclosure forms?

No. I didn't. You're telling me this for the first time. I think she's done an amazing job.

On Secretary Noem you talked about —

Who are you with?

Washington Examiner, sir. Christian Datoc.

Good paper, actually.

Thank you. Are you concerned right now, again, with the speed of the deportations? Obviously Tom Homan, Stephen Miller have talked about how this isn't enough. What exactly is enough?

It's going to take a long period of time. We're gonna do a lot of — we have a lot of angst, because it's a tough, it's a tough thing. But no, I think they're doing an amazing job. And, you know, we're doing a lot of own deportations. We're doing a lot of deportations, or self deportations, where they come in and they deport, and then they want to come back into the country, and they can only come back into the country under no circumstances, unless they go out the proper way, or unless they never come back. No, I think it's going very well. Look, Biden did us a tremendous disservice when he allowed this to happen to our country. And I always said it's the toughest thing. You know, I had inflation, and I got rid of it. We don't have inflation. We had a bad economy, and we got — we set a new stock market high. Today, we're doing unbelievable. The country is doing unbelievable. I always said the most difficult thing is what happened at the border, allowing 21 or 25 million people to come into

our country. I think we're doing a fantastic job at getting them out, and you have a lot of self deporting, a lot more than people understand that those people are eligible maybe to come back in.

Mr. President, are you thinking of extending the pause on tariffs beyond July 9?

No, no, no, I'm not thinking about it. I'll be writing letters to a lot of countries, and I think you're just starting to understand the process. We've dealt with Japan. I'm not sure we're going to make a deal. I doubt it with Japan, they're very tough. You have to say they're very spoiled. I love Japan. I really like the new prime minister too. Abe was one of my closest friends, as you know. The new prime minister is great. He's a very strong guy, but they and others are so spoiled from having ripped us off for 30,40 years that it's really hard for them to make a deal. But as an example with Japan and they won't take rice. And yet they desperately need rice, you know that? But they won't take rice. They won't take other products. But think of it, they need rice so badly, but they won't take rice. I think that was an easy one. Well, the cars, as you know, they send out millions. We didn't give them one car in 10 years. They won't take any cars, but they'll sell millions. So we tell them,

sorry, you can't do that. And they have a great relationship, great reliance, and really a great sort of a partnership, in a way. But on trade, they've been very unfair, and those days are good. So what I'm going to do is I'll write them a letter and say, we thank you very much, and we know you can't do the kind of things that we need, and therefore you pay a 30%, 35% or whatever the number is that we determine, because we also have a very big trade deficit with the Japan as you know, and it's very unfair to the American people. So they maybe will be happy, they maybe won't be happy, but some countries we won't even allow to trade. But for the most part, we're going to determine a number just very simply write them a nice letter, probably one page or a page and a half at the most. And it's going to be essentially, congratulations. It's going to be an honor to allow you to go and do business in the United States of America, because it really is [intelligible] in there. We never viewed it

that way in this country. And you saw we took in $129 million in tariffs already. We haven't even started, no inflation. Our country is strong. Our interest rate should be three points low. If our interest rate was three points low, that's almost a trillion dollars in cost understood just by the signing of a pen. But we have a moron at the head of the Fed. He's a moron.

Speaking of Jay Powell, do you have a top choice for someone at the Fed?

I do. I have two or three top choices.

Can you tell us those?

No.

Are there other trade deals that are close to being done that you think you will announce over the next week?

I think we're going to have a deal with India, possibly. And that's going to be a different kind of a deal. It's going to be a deal where we're able to go in and compete. Right now, India doesn't accept anybody yet. I think India is going to do that, and if they do that, we're going to have a deal for less, much less, tariffs. Thank you for telling me, by the way.

Oh, you're welcome. You mentioned Alejandro Mayorkas. He was impeached in the House. Cleared the Senate. Investigating him? I mean, investigate the auto pen. What's your status on that?

Well, the auto pen is under investigation. The auto pen's a serious thing. I think it's one of the most serious things I've heard. Mayorkas was a terrible, terrible secretary, but he was given orders to do things, and the people that gave those orders probably have pardons. You know, Biden pardoned a lot of people. The only one he didn't pardon was himself. But I don't know, about you, to him, what he did to me. The problem is he wouldn't understand what happened. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

There's a video where Speaker Johnson is telling him about how he stopped the LNG gas and she thought he was something else. How many more examples are there that Speaker Johnson — or President Biden just didn't know what he was doing?

President Obama was a terrible president. President Biden was the worst president in the history of our country. President Bush should not have gone into the Middle East and blow the place up, so I don't give him high marks either. Thank you very much, everybody. I give Trump very high marks. Goodbye.

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