Supplemental pool report #4 — full quotes

How many federal workers do you plan to lay off?

[POTUS] Well, we may do a lot, and that's only because of the Democrats. And as you know, they want to be able to take care of people that have come into our country illegally, and no system can handle that, and so we're totally opposed to that, but we can't take it. We just can't do it. I'd love to do everybody. I'd love to do the whole world, but our country can't handle people that come into our country illegally, and they want to give them full health care benefits. They want to open the wall again. Can you believe it? I can't even believe it. They want to open the wall. They haven't taken away boys playing in women's sports. They haven't done that. Men playing in women's sports. It's like they don't change. They lost an election in a landslide, and they don't change.

How long does Hamas have to respond to ceasefire proposal?

We're going to do about three or four days. We'll see how it is. All of the Arab countries are signed up. The Muslim countries are all signed up. Israel is all signed up. We're just waiting for Hamas, and Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it's not, it's going to be a very sad end.

Can you negotiate with Hamas or is it take-it-or-leave-it?

You know, with Hamas, we want it very simple. We want the hostages back immediately, and we want some good behavior. And, you know, pretty, pretty simple. You don't get simpler. Think of it. We've signed every country in the Middle East. This is like an impossible thing. It's never been done before. This is more than Gaza. Gaza is mixed up, but this is Gaza is a piece of it.

And if they reject the deal, you said that Israel has your backing to do everything they need to do —

I would let them go and do what they have to do. You know, we've killed about 25,000 Hamas. So certainly they paid a big price for October 7. And this is a whole new group. You know, they come in and they come in and they keep coming. But this is a whole different group, and their leadership has been killed three different times, so they paid a big price. We hope that they're going to have a nice, calm life. Maybe it won't happen, but if it does, it'll be one of the greatest things ever to happen. We'll have actual peace in the Middle East.

Are you preparing to take strikes against drug gangs inside Venezuela?

We'll see what happens with Venezuela. Venezuela has been very dangerous with drugs and with other things, and they've been very, very dangerous. So we'll see what happens with Venezuela. We had a lot of drugs coming in through water. We call it water drugs just a simple term. We don't have any boats on the water. There are no boats. There are no fishing boats. There are no anything. So we hit a number of boats. You probably saw that, and since we did that, we have absolutely no drugs coming into our country via water, because it was lethal. And now we'll look at cartels. We're going to look very seriously at cartels coming by land.

What will you tell the Department of War. Why gather all the generals in one place for this speech?

This is only an esprit de corps. Do you know what that is, an esprit de corps? This is only a spirit. We're going to be talking to him. Pete Hegseth is talking right now. I'm going to have to leave because I have to talk too. But these are our generals, our admirals, our leaders, and it's a good thing, a thing like this has never been done before, because they came from all over the world. And there's a little bit of expense, not much, but there's a little expense to that. We don't like to waste it. We'd rather spend it on bullets and rockets, frankly. But this was the one time we had to do a great spiritizing. It's going to be great. I've seen it already. We have every general, every Admiral. We have great people. We have our real warriors over there. And when they're not good, when we don't think they're our warriors, you know what happens? We say, you're fired. Get out. We had some real bad ones last time, you know. I rebuilt the military, the entire military, but I had a couple of

unbelievable people to do that. You have to. But I had unbelievable people in there. But I also had some bad ones at the top, like Milley and Mattis, and Esper. I called him to always too late Jesper. He was horrible. So, but I learned, because, you know, that was I was just in there, and I put these people in, they were recommended by rhinos and others. And then I did well, but what we have now is the best. But even despite that, I rebuilt the military in my first term. We had a great first time. We had the greatest economy ever, and it's being beaten by a lot this time, so I'm going over. I'm going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm going to fire him right on the spot.

Christian Datoc

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