Out of town report #5 - Rush Trump quotes

POTUS remarks started with IRAN:

“Tremendous progress has been made, as you’ve probably been watching… I built the military and rebuilt it and made it really strong in my first administration, along with a lot of other things.

“And now we’re using it here’s no military like it on Earth and we’re doing very well in Iran. You see the result.

“We knocked out their air force, we knocked out their communications and all telecommunications is gone. I don’t know how they communicate but I guess they will figure something out. It’s not working out too well and they’re bad people.

ON THE SHIELD OF THE AMERICAS:

“On this historic day, we come together to announce a brand new military coalition to eradicate the criminal cartels in our region.

“They’re not watching but we’re calling this military partnership the Americas counter cartel coalition.

ON ENDORSEMENTS FOR POLITICAL CANDIDATES:

“I give an endorsement, they win by 30 points, and I get nothing. If I could sell that — is there a way, do we have any of our legal people here? Marco’s [Rubio, who is in the audience] close enough. Is there a way I can get paid for that? They spend millions of dollars and I give it, even if I put it into the Treasury of the United States, it would be pretty good right? Marco’s saying ‘it’s not a good idea’ but it’s an honor to do.”

Trump then gave shoutouts to all of the admin officials in attendance, including Kristi Noem, who he just removed as DHS Secretary and has been named the Special Envoy to the Shield of Americas. He also gave a shoutout to Chris Landau, the deputy Secretary of State

ON MILITARY FORCE VS CARTELS:

“Every leader here today is united in the conviction that we cannot and will not tolerate the lawlessness in our hemisphere any longer. The only way to defeat these enemies is by unleashing the power of our militaries. We have to use our military. You have to use your military. You can fight these people and you have great police, you have some great police, but they threaten your police. They scare your police. You use your military.

“In many cases, our forces have already been working closely with yours, and the United States looks forward to deepening and expanding that cooperation in the months ahead.

ON DELCY RODRIGUEZ/VENEZUELA:

“She's doing a great job because she's working with us. If she wasn't working with us, I would not say she's doing a great job. In fact, she wasn't working with us, I'd say she's doing a very poor job, unacceptable, but she's doing a great job. Marco, right? It's all great with Marco. We're taking out tremendous amounts of oil. They're getting, they're making more money now than they've ever made, ever made. We have the big oil companies, and they are getting making more money. We're getting some, they're getting a lot. They're making more money now than they've ever made in the history of their country. Can you imagine?

“I'm pleased to say that this week, we have formally recognized the Venezuelan government. We've actually legally recognized that we have also just reached a historic gold deal. It's called the gold deal with Venezuela, to allow our two countries to work together to facilitate the sale of Venezuelan gold and other minerals. They have great amounts of gold, good land, very good land, but they weren't able to take it. The system didn't allow them to take advantage of the value of their land.”

ON CUBA:

“Many of you have come today and they say, I hope you can take care of Cuba. Because you have problems with Cuba, right? You mentioned I was surprised, but four of you said, actually, ‘Could you do us a favor?’ Take care of Cuba. I'll take care of it.”

(Trump received applause for that line)

After he was done speaking, he let Rubio and Hegseth deliver remarks. Rubio spoke part of his remarks in Spanish.Trump started signing the military coalition proclamation at 10:13a ET. He ignored shouted questions on Iran. Pool was ushered out at 10:15a ET and we will be rolling shortly

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Hugo Lowell

White House Correspondent

The Guardian

Washington DC Bureau

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