In town pool note 4 - cabinet meeting questions

Trump began taking questions at 12:52

Again pls check against transcript

Says he wants to keep national guard in dc - “they look great”

Hegseth there will be a “surge” of national guard in DC this summer

Trump says “nobody” is going to control the strait of Hormuz. “Oman is going to have to behave like everyone else.”

Trump says that gas prices will come down to where they were before conflict ends

“The primary urgency I have is that we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” “I think you’re going to see lower prices than even before we did this”

We’re not talking about any easing of sanctions with Iran

“When they behave properly, when they do what’s right, we’ll let them have their money”

Would not be comfortable with China or Russia taking Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium

On shooting near WH over the weekend —

“What I’m doing is a dangerous business” and “I can’t think about it”

“It’s a very sad fact of life”

“When you are a consequential president, your life is in grave danger.”

Iran time frame — stresses its only been a few months, and that other US conflicts took years

“We’ve been very capable” and have limited the loss of US soldiers

“We could close that out very quickly..” but “I don’t think we’ll have to.”

On other gulf states —

Says he was going to go to the knicks game on Wednesday, but they won. “I think I’ll be going to” one of the NBA finals games.

“If they don’t sign to join the Abraham accords, I don’t know that we should sign” the Iran deal. But then declines to say a deal would be contingent on them signing on

Trump stopped taking questions at 1:13 and we were ushered out

Alex Isenstadt

Senior Political Reporter

Axios

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