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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Out of town report #4 - Trump remarks started
POTUS started speaking at 9:33a ET
Sitting in the front row from the admin include: Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Scott Bessent, Chris Wright, Jamieson Greer, Howard Lutnick, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller
Hugo Lowell
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Sat. Mar. 7, 9:39 AM https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2030292629628273062
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Out of town report #5 - Rush Trump quotes
POTUS remarks started with IRAN:
“Tremendous progress has been made, as you’ve probably been watching… I built the military and rebuilt it and made it really strong in my first administration, along with a lot of other things.
“And now we’re using it here’s no military like it on Earth and we’re doing very well in Iran. You see the result.
“We knocked out their air force, we knocked out their communications and all telecommunications is gone. I don’t know how they communicate but I guess they will figure something out. It’s not working out too well and they’re bad people.
ON THE SHIELD OF THE AMERICAS:
“On this historic day, we come together to announce a brand new military coalition to eradicate the criminal cartels in our region.
“They’re not watching but we’re calling this military partnership the Americas counter cartel coalition.
ON ENDORSEMENTS FOR POLITICAL CANDIDATES:
“I give an endorsement, they win by 30 points, and I get nothing. If I could sell that is there a way, do we have any of our legal people here? Marco’s [Rubio, who is in the audience] close enough. Is there a way I can get paid for that? They spend millions of dollars and I give it, even if I put it into the Treasury of the United States, it would be pretty good right? Marco’s saying ‘it’s not a good idea’ but it’s an honor to do.”
Trump then gave shoutouts to all of the admin officials in attendance, including Kristi Noem, who he just removed as DHS Secretary and has been named the Special Envoy to the Shield of Americas. He also gave a shoutout to Chris Landau, the deputy Secretary of State
ON MILITARY FORCE VS CARTELS:
“Every leader here today is united in the conviction that we cannot and will not tolerate the lawlessness in our hemisphere any longer. The only way to defeat these enemies is by unleashing the power of our militaries. We have to use our military. You have to use your military. You can fight these people and you have great police, you have some great police, but they threaten your police. They scare your police. You use your military.
“In many cases, our forces have already been working closely with yours, and the United States looks forward to deepening and expanding that cooperation in the months ahead.
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