in-town pool report #5 - quotes from gaggle

Some quotes from the president's gaggle with reporters before boarding Marine One:

On Iran: "Iran is doing very poorly. Their economy is gone. They have inflation of almost 300 percent. Their oil minister just quit. He said, 'We have no economy. We have no oil. We have nothing. The Harmony Strait, tremendous amounts of millions of barrels of oil that's been delivered just over the last couple of days. We're getting it through at levels that were now even and sometimes exceeding prior to the war."

On midterms: "I think we're going to do very well. I think that the rallies I'm doing are really changing around, and I think the Republican -- all I'm doing is saying what we've done, but the rallies that we've that we're having, I mean, I'm doing them every night. This is the opening of a shipyard, but the rallies have changed things around. We're letting people know what the Republicans have done, and it's incredible. And prices are now coming way down. And oil, as soon as the war is over, which will be soon, will be coming way down."

On the reflecting pool: "We had vandalism there, and we have it about as vandal-proof as you can get. But only sick people do that, and we have their pictures... I think they're going to fill it up this week. The reflecting pool is totally complete, and we changed the old pipes. We wanted to get open for July 4th, and now we went and got rid of all of the old pipes, which we were going to do later during the winter. We did it, and I think it's almost complete... I'm going to visit."

On the Paramount - Warner Bros merger: It's going to be a great company. They're terrific people, and it's going to be a great company."

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Arthur Delaney

Reporter | HuffPost