WH in-town pool report #5/ POTUS takes questions
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- David Smith
- Sent
- Friday, September 4, 2026, at 2:45 PM
Asked about JD Vance saying the Iran conflict is not a war, POTUS replied: “A lot of people don’t call it a war. I call it a military conflict. It’s small potatoes for us… We do intermittent strikes… We’re not fighting right now.”
When pressed by a reporter, he asked: “How long were we in Vietnam?”
He continued: “We took out all the mines… I don’t think it matters what you call it. What matters is we had tremendous success.”
Earlier POTUS said: “People were screaming at me about the egg prices and we brought them way down… We inherited these high prices. We inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country from the Biden administration.”
He complained that today’s positive job numbers will cause the stock market to go down. “Growth does not cause inflation. Stupidly causes inflation.”
He said: “We’re building more plants and factories today than at any time in the history of our country… We could have a GDP that would break every single record.”
Questions are ongoing.
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David Smith
Washington bureau chief
Guardian News & Media