travel note #10 - final quotes from POTUS gaggle

Here are some final quotes and the otter files from POTUS gaggle. Sorry my recording split off. As always please check against official transcript.

https://otter.ai/u/NkJ3pjEn30Yyb1XN6_QJL7AnC-w

https://otter.ai/u/PYIUoQ_OFU0nkXEZ8mUuq3AapR0

More on tariffs: "This is not sustainable. The United States can't lose $1.9 trillion on trade. We can't do that and also spend a lot of money on NATO in order to protect European nations, we cover them with military and we lose money on trade. The whole thing is crazy, and I got elected on that basis. We explained it. You know, the American people understand it a lot better than the media, but the media understands it, and much of the media writes correctly about it."

On Russia: "We're talking to Russia. Would like him to stop. I don't like the bombing. The bombing goes on and on. Every week, people and 1000s of young people are being killed, and it's a horrible thing that should have never started, would have never started if I were president, 100%."

On a report that there was about to be a deal on TikTok but China changed its mind because of tariffs: "That is largely correct. The report is that we had a deal, pretty much for Tiktok, not a deal, but pretty close, and then China changed the deal because of tariffs. If I gave a little cut in tariffs, they'd approve that deal in 15 minutes, which shows you the power of tariffs, right?"

On reports he endorsed Chris Sununu in New Hampshire Senate race: "He came to my office, came to the Oval Office, and met with Chris Sununu, and I support him fully. I hope he runs. He's been very nice to me over the last year or so, but no, I hope he runs. I think he'll win that seat."

More on inflation: "It's not going to be I don't think inflation is going to be a big deal. Because if you look at me, I took in hundreds of billions of dollars. This is not new to me. I took it during my four years, hundreds of billions of dollars from China, and we also took in a lot of money from other countries, but in particular China, because it was just getting started and there was - we had no inflation. Who had inflation was Biden. Biden had the worst inflation in the history of our country. I had no inflation. We had a perfect country. We had no wars. I ended them all. I defeated ISIS. Everything was good. And then when this numbskull got in, as they really call themselves now, numbskulls, but when he got in, bad things happened to our country."

On measles outbreaks: "Well they've been doing reports on it. It's so far fairly small number of people relative to what we're talking about, something that people have known about for many, many years. I mean, measles has been, you know, this is not something new, and we'll see what happens, but certainly if something, if it, you know, progresses, we'll have to take action very strongly."

On Netanyahu visit: "We're going to talk about trade, and we're going to talk about the obvious subject."

Emily Goodin

Senior White House Correspondent

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