Out of town pool report #8 - Trump takes stage / first gaggle quotes

POTUS takes stage, in red hat, at outdoor speech podium with vista of huge bridge and an oil tanker called Searuby. Says we are ‘on the shores of the Gulf of America”

In his earlier gaggle, Trump said there were “millions of barrels of oil pouring right in here” from Venezuela.

The relationship with Venezuela’s been amazing.”

Have you decided who to endorse in the Texas primary? “Pretty much, yeah.”

Will you tell us who? “No.”

Do you have a message for Iran’s supreme leader? “Well they should make a deal but they don’t want to quite go for it

“Look, we've been playing with them for 47 years, and that's a long time, isn't it? And that's a long time blowing the legs off our people, blowing the face off our people, the arms. They've been knocking our ships one by one and every month there's something else can't put up with it. We're not happy with the negotiation. They just don't want to, they don't want to see say the key words, we're not going to have a nuclear weapon. They have to say, we're not going to have a nuclear weapon that they just can't quite get there. They want to enrich a little bit. You don't have to enrich when you have that much oil. So I'm not happy with the negotiation.”

“No enrichment. Not 20 Percent, 30% there was one… they want it for civilian, civil, civil, I think it's uncivil. So I'm not happy”

Said wouldn’t say when he’d make a decision on Iran: “you’d have the greatest scoop in history”

Danny Kemp

AFP White House correspondent

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