Out of town report #5 - POTUS rush quotes

POTUS walked to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” and started speaking at 4:50p ET

ON IRAN (more Iran lower down)

“We’re making America great again. We're doing it much faster than we thought, and it's better, stronger. Our country is doing really well, at a level that nobody thought. We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some people. And I think you'll see it's going to be a short term excursion. How good is our military? In my first term, we rebuilt our military, and I didn't know I'd be using it so much in the second term. But we have a military like no other as not even close.

ON HOUSE GOP LEADERSHIP

“We have some great people in this room, but including a majority leader, a real brave guy, because I know the real story. I was there that night with him in the hospital when he was given a very small chance of living by a doctor who was very good by a wife who was desperately in love with him. She cried so much …She was really she was just devastated she was going to lose her guy.But it worked out. The doctor said more blood was put into him than he's ever seen. He was he was in big trouble. I looked at him that night and I said goodbye to him, but he made it. He was braver. Look at the way fought back.

“Tom Emmer, who I really got to know over the last few years. And I'll tell you, he'sa winner who's a champion with another great wife, good wife …Tom is just a real champion and a winner. You have a problem, you go to him.

“We all know, Lisa [McClain] don't get on her wrong side. It can be a very very bad experience. Very special.

ON DEFENSE FUNDING

“The representatives in this room provided the pivotal votes in securing the record $1 trillion for the United States military this year. Now, the world is witnessing the importance of that investment with one of the most complex and stunning operations ever conducted, and that's operation Epic Fury.

“That’s evenbetter than Midnight Hammer, which was pretty good too. That was where we knocked out their nuclear potential. That was a big day, because if we didn't do that, they would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks, and I think we'd be in a lot different situation.And then you had, of course, what they did in Venezuela, how that was. It was just so far so done a real job. We've got all the good ones.

MORE IRAN

“And now everybody understands it, together with our Israeli partners, we're crushing the enemy and overwhelming display of technical skill and military force Iran's drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished. The Navy is gone. It's all lying at the bottom of the ocean 46 ships. Can you believe it?But think of it. We knocked out 46 it actually took three and a half days.

“Their terrorist leaders are gone, or counting down the minutes until they will be gone … They've had new leaders, and now, nobody has any idea that people aren't going to be the head of the country. And we will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated.

“But as you know, on Saturday, I traveled to Dover Air Force Base to be with the families of six fallen warriors as they returned to American soil. And I know that everyone in this room joins me in sending our prayers and eternal gratitude to the families of those great heroes. Those families are incredible. Families devastating to be hardest thing to do and I've done it a lot, the hardest thing to do is to go to Dover.

“It's a beautiful thing, but it's also very sad thing.But they all said one thing to me, ‘Make sure you win. Sir, make sure you win.’”

“We've already won in many ways, but we haven't won enough.

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Hugo Lowell

White House Correspondent

The Guardian

Washington DC Bureau

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