Travel pool #6 - Mar-a-Lago event
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- Charlie Spiering
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- Monday, December 22, 2025, 6:05 PM
Pool was brought into a room here at Mar-a-Lago for the president’s event with the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan on Navy ships.
There are three posters of the new Trump Class warship, named the USS Defiant.
The president arrived at 5:10 with Hegseth, Phelan and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Event was livestreamed.
The president spoke about increasing the production of ships in the United States.
He followed up with comments talking about the importance of his strikes on drug smuggling boats from Venezuela.
He took questions on drug strikes on land, seizure of Venezuela oil, the release of the Epstein files, Ukraine and Russia peace talks, Maduro, pursuit of the oil tanker, his planned meeting with health insurance CEOs.
The president finished speaking at 6:00.
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