In-town pool report #16: More Oval quotes

This is a grab bag of topics.

Pharmaceutical tariffs:

"We're going to be doing tariffs on pharmaceuticals, in order to bring our pharmaceutical industry back. We don't make anything here in terms of drugs, medical drugs, different types of drugs that you need, medicines. It's another country. It's largely made in China. Lot of it made in Ireland."

LA fires:

"If Los Angeles had fire cuts, which they didn't have — that's a gap of half a football field between areas — you wouldn't have had the fires, they would have been contained."

TikTok sale:

"TikTok is very popular, very successful, very good. And we're gonna have a form of a deal. But if it's not finished, it's not a big deal; we'll just extend it. I have the right to have the deal and to extend it if I want."

"We have a lot of interest in TikTok."

"China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly, in the form of an approval maybe, and I think they'll do that. Maybe I'll give them a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done."

How would you handle if states like California put in place education policies you disagree with?"California is going to be tougher because they are, they're doing badly, and everything they do, everything they touch turns bad. So a place like California would be tougher for education. But what I would see with California is you'd have a Los Angeles Department, and you'd have Riverside, you'd have, you know, you'd go to various places, and I think you'd have some great areas in California, and then you'd have some like everything else, it doesn't work so well, but ultimately, I think it would be very successful."

"So many states are chomping at the bit to get education, and it's going to happen fast, to get the education brought back to the States."

Greenland:

"We need Greenland, and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland. And, you know, we'll see what happens. But if we don't have Greenland, we can't have great international security. If you look at the ships outside of Greenland, China, Russia; places that we have to be there. If we're not there, we can't have national or international security."

EU decided against Apple and Google for Digital Markets Act, is it politically motivated? "It is. The European Union is suing a lot of our companies, like Apple, and they have a $17 billion dollar judgment, and they're suing Google, they're suing Facebook, they're suing a lot of other companies, and they use that money just like — it's like a tariff. They go before judges that are very pro-European Union to put it mildly. I have that same thing here, but I don't think the people are going to stand for it."

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Shira Stein

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