In-Town Pool Note #16 - Gaggle Verbatim
- From
- Chenny Chen (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM/)
- Sent
- Saturday, September 20, 2025, 8:12 PM
Here’s a rough verbatim from the gaggle.
Q- on UNGA for the UN Can you say which leaders you meet with at the UN?
A- I’m going to meet with a lot of the leaders at the UN. They want to probably 20.
Q- from your administration pressure ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel.
A- No, not at all. I think Jimmy Kimmel is terrible. You know what suspended him? His talent. You know what else is, really what? Take a look at this guy, his rating. That's what got Jimmy Kimmel out. He was terrible. I saw a report where ABC lost millions of dollars with him. So that's what suspended Jimmy Kimmel
Q - will you meet with Democratic leaders to talk about how to avoid a shutdown
A- I will, but they don't care about crime. They want to keep men in women sports. They want all this stuff. They don't change. They haven't learned from the biggest meeting they've ever taken, just about I'd love to meet with them, but I don't think it's going to have an Impact.
Q- Grounds for losing a broadcast license.
A- Well, I think when a network is dishonest, certainly if they are dishonest because they give you 97% bad publicity or whatever it is, some ridiculous number, yeah, I would say that would be ground
Q- on ground to get Bagram back
A- we won't talk about that, but we're talking now to Afghanistan, and we want it back, and we want it back soon, right away, and if they don't do it, if they don't do it, you're going to find out what I'm going to do.
Q- Will there be an American on that seventh seat on the Tiktok, there's six seats for Americans.
A- We're going to announce that over the next week, who the seventh will be.
Chenny Chen
Bloomberg News
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