Travel Pool Report No. 3 - gaggle quotes

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On BLS head -

“We’ll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next three or four days.”

Q: Have those nuclear subs been deployed yet?

“I’ve already put out a statement, the answer is they are in the region.”

Q: What will Steve Witkoff’s message be to the Russians? Is there anything they can do to avoid sanctions at this point?

“We’ve got to get to a deal where people stop getting killed.”

Q: Gaza trip update?

“Only that we want the people fed.”

Q: Did they see evidence of a genocide in Gaza?

“I don’t think – and, look, they’re in a war there. Some horrible things happened on October 7 as you know. It was a horrible horrible thing, one of the worst I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen a lot of bad things since I’m president in terms of wars.”

Q: What happens on Friday if Russia doesn’t agree to a ceasefire?

“Well there will be sanctions but they seem to be pretty good at avoiding sanctions. You know, they’re wily characters and they’re pretty good at avoiding sanctions. So we’ll see what happens.”

“But Steve is focused right now on the border in terms of, we’re talking about with Gaza, getting people fed. And he may be going, I think next week Wednesday or Thursday may be going to Russia.”

Q: What advice do you have Republicans on Capitol Hill heading into midterms?

“Well one of the things they’re going to be talking about pretty soon are the tremendous drop in drug prices.”

Q: 20 billion in July taken in in tariff revenue, could we see a potential rebate here and what would that look like and who would qualify?

“Well we’re going to pay down debt. We have a lot of money coming in, much more money than the country has ever seen, by hundreds of billions of dollars. And there could be a distribution for dividend to the people of our country. I would say for people that would be middle income people and lower income people. We could do a dividend. But one of the things we’re going to be doing I reducing debt.”

Q: Will you endorse Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears?

“Yeah, I would. I would. I think she probably has a tough race. She shouldn’t have. The candidate she’s running against is not very good but I think she’s got a tough race, but I would, yeah.”

Q: When will you swear-in Jeannine Pirro?

“I will happily swear-in Jeannine Pirro who’s going to be fantastic.”

Said he would do so in a “very short perod of time.”

Q: Are you happy with how the Rose Garden turned out?

“Yeah, we’re getting great reviews of the Rose Garden and we had to do it. Just an example, when we had a press conference you’d sink into the mud. It was grass and it was very wet, always wet and damp and wet and if it rained it would take three, four, five days to dry out and we couldn’t use it really for the intended purpose.”

“And it’s a beautiful white stone and it’s a stone that’s the same color as the White House itself. And because it’s very white it’s going to reflect the heat and it’s not going to be very hot. Yeah, we’ve got great reviews of the Rose Garden.

Q: What is your relationship with Laura Loomer?

“I think she’s very nice. And I know she’s known as a radical right but I think Laura Loomer is a very nice person. I’ve known her for a long time. And, you know, personally she’s a patriot.

Q: Reaction to the report that Sydney Sweeney is a Republican?

“She’s a registered Republican?”

“Oh, now I love her ad.”

“You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That’s one I wouldn’t have known but I’m glad you told me that. But Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican I think her ad is fantastic.

Trump also said he’s mulling whether U.N. should stay Cabinet level.