Out of town pool report #8 - more Mamdani / MidEast / YMCA / wrap

While talking about trans sports, Trump says Democrats are crazy ‘and Mamdani, or whatever the hell his name is’

Says he wants NYC to be successful and says maybe he’ll ‘help him a little bit maybe’.

(Pls check tapes for that bit pls as pool was rushed out shortly after)

Earlier, Big cheers from the audience when Trump said: “We're making the United States, the Bitcoin superpower, the crypto capital of the world, and the undisputed leader in artificial intelligence.”

He brought Miami Mayor Francis Suarez to the podium to speak briefly (after mocking him for being ‘a little late in his endorsement’). Suarez then gave him a ‘key that opens some really nice presidential library real estate.’

Trump gave a shout-out to Witkoff for negotiating ‘peace in the middle

East’ and to a ‘young genius named Jared Kushner’ and made them both stand. Cheers and applause for both. He then made granddaughter Arabella stand too and talks about her A-grades in school.

On Middle East peace: ‘We're going to have it too. We're doing well. Just keeps going along.’

Again he noted the Saudi officials in the room and says he hopes they’ll join the Abraham Accords: “Hopefully we’ll get Saudi Arabia very soon.”

Comes back to Gaza deal, says: ‘there’s nothing tenuous, it’s a serious end.’ — adding that he hopes it is ‘because otherwise I only ended seven’

Shout out too to FIFA chief Gianni Infantino, noted the 2026 World Cup and 2028 LA Olympics, and says there will be UFC at the White House on June 14 as part of the 250th anniversary celebrations.

On the drug boat strikes:

“Every time we hit a boat we save 25,000 lives”

‘It's really made unbelievable progress, and we're blowing up cartel terrorists, and we're blowing them up, linked to the Maduro regime in Venezuela and others’

Trump also covered subjects including nuclear arms, the eight wars he says he’s ended, the blank teleprompter at the UNGA, but went over ground he’s covered in previous remarks.

Speech wrapped at 2.45pm. Trump then did the YMCA dance, to more cheers from the crowd

Danny Kemp

AFP White House correspondent

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