In town pool report 15 -- lots of quotes

From the Rose Garden:

We have worked very hard to bring it to fruition and not an easy situation, but it's something that I think we're all going to enjoy for many, many years to come. It's a tremendous place. This is the rose garden. We never touched the rose. The roses are in full bloom and they will be in full bloom during certain seasons, but we never touched. I tell you what we did with, the grass was not usable. Every time we'd have a press conference, women in particular were sinking deep into the mud and at some point I said, you know, it's time to make the change. We picked a great stone and we have a great speaker system. I hope everybody hears this perfectly, but a lot of people are wondering why you're here tonight. And I'll tell you very simply why you're here. Because you are the ones that I never had to call at four o'clock in the morning. You are the ones that have been my friends.

You know what I'm talking about? And you're smart and even brilliant people, but you would tell people, I don't speak to the president much because I always vote with the president and Mike Johnson who's going to go down as one of the great speakers of our time or any other time. Mike, thank you very much. I said, Mike, I want to do something. I want to reward the people that have confidence in their president, have confidence in you and vote for us.

And that includes some of the senators that are here. We have senators, we have congressmen. This was originally going to be for Congress only. We're going to have the senators sometime. But a couple of the senators really wanted to be here,

…So getting back to why you got invited. So I'd get a call from the speaker and it'd say, sir, we have 16 hard nos. It's four o'clock in the morning and we have one of many bills because this happened many times and it tended to be the same, 16, 18, 19 people all the time, four o'clock, five o'clock in the morning I call. I said, Jim, how you doing Jim? Everything okay? Yes sir, it's five o'clock in the morning. How are you voting for us? Well, what do you think, sir? Tell me, what should I do sir? And he broke my ass and they had about 16 others. That doesn't mean we don't like him, but we had about 16, 17 or 18 others and they made life very difficult. But we got 'em there because we had a period where we had a majority of one.

Is that right, Mike? One?

We were one heart attack away from losing the house. Think of that. And nobody could have done that, but that man right there, and I think I helped … And we passed legislation. I call it the great big beautiful Bill. …

And Scott Bessent is here who's done a fantastic job and he's one of the people, one of the writers of it gave plenty of good ideas. And I think Howard is here someplace, whereas Howard Lutnick, Howard, thank you very much. I call the the Bobbsey Twins. They're the most different human beings I've ever met. They're both great, but one is a little bit different than the other by about 200 yards. And they're fantastic. They get along great, but we all, the administration has been amazing and what we've done has not been done. A lot of people, even the people that are not necessarily lovers of President Trump, and some of them are right there in the fake news, but they said that nobody's done what we've done in seven months, a little more than seven months. When you think of it. We stopped seven wars and the war that I thought was going to be the easiest is probably the most difficult.

That's the Ukraine and Russia. I thought that would be easier. The relationship with President Putin, all of that, it didn't matter. It's ended up being probably the most difficult….

You are the first ones on this great place.

We call it the Rose Garden Club. And it's a club for senators, for Congress people, and for people in Washington and frankly people that can bring peace and success to our country. And you're invited as congressmen; mostly we have congressmen and senators tonight. Again, you know why you're first because it rained last night. I had the high tech guys we're going to hear, and they didn't want to have rain on top of their beautiful heads. We had the highest IQ last night in the history of the world. And we took them inside because two reasons. Number one, I wanted you to be number one and you were, they could have endured the litter rain, but I wanted you to be number one. And I would say I would match IQ tonight here with what we had last night, meaning IQ of common sense in survival. …

…And one example is right over here, Washington dc. It was the most unsafe city anywhere in the country, our capitol. And after 12 days, it became known as a safe city. And then after two more days, it's now one of the safest cities in the country. And people are going out to dinner, they're walking down the middle of the street, women are walking by themselves alone, and they feel totally safe.

And if you leave here right now and if you walk back to wherever you happen to stay, you're going to feel totally secure, totally safe. We've done an incredible job. And we'll be doing that with other cities throughout the country. I mean, when you look at Chicago, we have a governor that says that things are okay with crime. Except that last weekend, 11 people were killed and 68 people were wounded by gunshot. The week before five people were killed, 28 people were wounded. The week before, six people were killed, 19 people were badly wounded. Many of the wounded are going to die. And he said, oh, well, we have a safe city. These people are sick. There's something wrong with them, but we're going to make some other choices pretty soon. I watched Portland, Oregon last night burning to the ground, just burning with people.

And these are agitators. These are professional. These are not people that are protesting. These are professional paid agitators, and they're paid by the left, not by the right. And we're going to stop 'em. We're going to stop it all. So we're pretty much, I don't think you could do much better than zero. They said crime is down 87%. They said, really? Who are the 13%? Okay? I don't think they exist. So we're so proud of what? Because this is our nation's capital. Now we're going to be coming to you for a small amount of money. We're going to beautify Washington. We're going to fix the roads, we're going to fix the medians. We're going to clean up the place. We're going to put new grass in all the parks. You don't know this. Grass has a life…

We have a life. It's so long. Guess what? It expired about 40 years ago in these parks. There's no grass on half of them. We're going to re-grass 'em with the best guys in the country. We're going to grass 'em by people that do Augusta in Georgia, people that do the great golf courses of the world, we are going to have the most beautiful parks. We're going to fix the curbs. I noticed some of your curbs are broken. You know what? There's hitting 'em with a hammer so they can pick it up and throw it at the police. But not anymore. They're not anymore. So we have the safest place, Washington, dc and we'll be going to other cities to help out. Preferably, we'd like to be asked, but in some cases that just won't happen because they're people that don't understand the word ask and people that don't understand they're in trouble or they're stupid, there's something wrong with them.

But these are high crime areas. As high as there is in the world, you can go to Afghanistan, you can go to places that you think of are unsafe. You're safer there than you are in Chicago at night. But we're going to make Chicago like this. … we're going to come into New Orleans and we're going to make that place so safe. It's got a little problem right now. A couple of headaches like murders, a lot of little murders going on, and we're not going to stand for it. And we're going to come in, we're going to clean it up. You're going to be safe within two weeks. That's going to be the safest place. Just like this is the safest place.

And then we'll be going elsewhere throughout the country. We're going to bring crime down. We can't have cities that are unsafe. I just want to thank you for everyone. This is a special group. And it is true. There's not one person in this audience that I had to call to ask for help that we needed your vote. You're unbelievable people…..

You trust yourselves and you don't make us make the call. One of you said, I don't speak to the president much. I like the president, but I always vote for him. I don't want 'em to have to waste. I have people and you know who they are that I have to call speak to them. ..For hours, hours, I know they're going to vote for us, but I have to speak to 'em for hours. And it's brutal. And it's not like at three in the afternoon. It's like three in the morning, right? Three in the morning… this is a very special group. And I say that with love for all those other people that have to work so hard, but they vote for us.

They do vote for us. Otherwise we wouldn't be doing what we're doing. But you are the people that I called Mike. I said, we have to reward the people that I don't get to speak to that I like so much. Doc Ronnie [Jackson] . … Ronnie, unbelievable doctor. He was the doctor in the White House. He was a great admiral and he's one of the most popular politicians in this country. He won his district by 50 points, but I think I won buy more. He's got one of the great districts. But Doc Ronnie, the reason I like him, he was a doctor. The White House. He took care of Bush, took care of Obama, took care of Trump, and the fake news right over here. They said to him, doctor, could we ask you a question? Yes. What would like, who's the healthiest Bush, Obama or Trump?

He said, there's not even a contest by far. The healthiest is President Donald J. Trump. I said, I love that guy, that guy. I'm sure that Bush and Obama don't feel the same way, but who the hell cares? But I want to thank you, Ronnie. You've been great in every way, and you've been a great congressman and you're not a congressman that had a call. I never had a call you at two in the morning to get your vote. Did I have? But you're the same. And I just want to thank everybody. You're a special group of people and you're the first people that I've had at the White House at the Rose Garden, and it's an honor to have you. Now I want you to sit down, have a great meal. The food is seriously good. We'll say goodbye to the press, but it's an honor to have you.

And actually the press has been very good lately, except for one rumor that they spread. I did about eight press conferences… day after day after day. Then I missed one because I was in the Oval Office, and I also went out to the club because I had meetings at a club and they saw that I was, and the rumor started this horrible rumor that Trump is no longer with us. They said, and they said, I got to the club, sir, are you okay? Are you okay? The fake news was at it again, but because I missed one day of press conferences, so today I gave them about a three hour press conferences on changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War because we won World War I, world War ii, everything in between and everything in front of it.

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But I just want to thank you all. You've been unbelievable. I'll be with you for the rest of my life. I will be with you, and you're going to be with me and with leadership. And Mike, I want to thank you for being a great speaker. You've been really outstanding and working with you has been an honor, and thank you, and congratulations on being number one. This is historic because you're number one here and this little circle, this little beautiful grouping of some of the finest stone in the world, this is I think going to go down as a very important place over the period of time for news conferences, for celebrations, for dinners, and we're going to bring people together here.

We're going to bring maybe some of the Democrats. We'll say the Democrats are invited now. We'll do that for about a week or two, and then we'll find out. Well, it just doesn't work perhaps. And keep 'em the hell out of here. We'll say, you're going to have to win the White House to get here, but maybe it will work. You never know. We're going to give it a shot. We're going to let Democrats come and we're going to let Republicans come, and you're going to mingle. In the old days, Republicans and Democrats got together and they'd go out for dinner, and then they'd fight a little bit during the day, and a lot of times they'd get 20%, 30% of one or the others vote. And today that doesn't happen. It's solid blocks one way or the other. And probably that shouldn't be, but we'll see what happens.