WH in-town travel pool report #5/ Some POTUS highlights so far

POTUS condemned wokeness in the military, Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and those who refuse to embrace the name Gulf of America. Some other highlights so far:

On ending wars: "The easiest one of them all is Putin. I said, number one, it's a war that would have never happened if I were president. If the election weren't rigged…That one's turned out to be the hardest of them all.”

On the Department of War: "The name change reflects far more than the shift in branding – it's really a historic reassertion of our purpose, our identity and our pride... Together, we're reawakening the warrior spirit."

"In this effort, we're a team and so my message to you today is simple: I am with you, I support you and, as president, I have your backs 100%. You'll never see me waver a little bit... We are going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than it has ever been before."

On nuclear weapons: "I rebuilt our nuclear... We have to hope we never have to use it because the power of that is so incredible."

"We were a little bit threatened by Russia recently and I sent a submarine... We're 25 years ahead of Russia and China in submarines... They're coming up and you don't have to be that good with nuclear."

On nuclear: "We can't let people throw around that word. I call it the n-word. There are two n-words and you can't use either of them. Frankly, if it does get to use we have more than anybody else."

On military recruitment: "Over the past eight months new enlistments have surged to record highs."

POTUS criticised the quality of paper at the White House and said of Biden: "I call him the autopen... It turned out almost everything he did was signed by autopen except when he gave his son, Hunter, a pardon."

POTUS said that, if his Gaza peace plan works out, he will have solved eight wars in eight months but added: "Will you get the Nobel prize? Absolutely not. They'll give it to a guy that didn't do a damn thing. Give it to a guy who wrote a book about the mind of Donald Trump."

Speech is ongoing.

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