WH in-town pool report #7/ POTUS finishes

POTUS finished speaking at 10.42am and pool left the Oval Office.

A little more on FIFA red card:

“I had nothing to do with the decision… I watched the play. He didn’t do anything wrong.”

It started with the foul. “If you look at the game there were 10 instances rougher than that… Gianni is brilliant at what he does.”

Earlier POTUS talked about crypto and said he waived his salary. “If we didn’t do it, China would do it in a minute.” Same with AI. “Nuclear is now really hot and safe.”

“I’m like a cheerleader for geniuses. I love high IQ people…. Do you know who the number one person on TikTok is by far? Trump. Me.”

POTUS on building a White House helipad: “For 50 years we’ve been landing helicopters on grass.” New helicopters are two and half times more powerful than the old ones. The grass gets “ripped out”. “The power is tremendous.”

“Now we’re building a helipad, a beautiful helipad.” Sikorsky are paying the full cost of $5 million to $6 million. “It’s got the seal of the White House, an eagle, and it’s carved out of granite.”

David Smith

Washington bureau chief

Guardian News & Media