travel pool 8 gaggle quotes
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- Jansen, Bart
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- Saturday, April 25, 2026 4:22 PM
Wheels up at Palm Beach was at 2:43 pm. Still approaching JBA:
The video from the Trump gaggle should have gone out to the broadcast pool as he spoke. But here are some quotes with a huge thanks to Haley of Scripps:
Asked about Pakistan:
“I think Pakistan is terrific”
“They’d like to see something happen but we’re not going to be traveling 15, 16 hours to have a meeting with people that nobody ever heard of to make you make that decision, too much travel when they say the meeting scheduled for Tuesday. I said Tuesday that’s a long time from now, but when you get right down to it, it’s a lot of traveling”
“They weren’t meeting with the leader of the country, they were meeting with other people”
On crypto conference:
“It’s a big industry and we want to beat China”
“As a president I have to be able to make sure all of our industries do well”
“It’s become somewhat mainstream”
“I think as the leader of the country we want to lead in AI”.. “and we’re also leading in crypto”
On fed reserve investigation:
“It’s not dropped”
“What I want to look at is how can a building that I could have done for 25 million cost 4 billion dollars and he was in charge so we’ll get to the bottom of it”
Trump says Jeanine is fantastic and she worked with other people on that.
He says he has an obligation to find out
“I want to find out how can a building of that size cost, whatever it’s going to be”
Asked about dealing with hardliners/IRGC aligned factions:
“We’ll deal with whoever runs the show”
“They don’t know they’re fighting with each other”
“They’re probably fighting for leadership in many cases I think they’re fighting not to be the leader”
“I’ll deal with whoever we have to but There’s no reason to wait two days…”
“When they want they can call me. We have all the cards.”
On what changed yesterday to today:
“Nothing”
“They gave us a paper that should have been better and Interestingly immediately when I canceled it within ten minutes we got a new paper that was much better”
“We talked about they will not have a nuclear weapon”
On ceasefire:
“I haven’t even thought about it.
“They offered a lot.
Bart Jansen
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