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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - In-Town Pool Report #9: Oval
Pool was brought into the Oval at 4:06pm. President Trump is at the Resolute Desk. Vice President Vance is to his left. Will Scharf and Steven Miller are also in the room.
"This is not a Republican or Democrat thing. This is wherever it is taking place," Trump says before promising to also go to red states as well in pursuit of fraud.
Event is ongoing and live-streamed.
Best,
Philip Wegmann
RealClearPolitics
Mon. Mar 16, 4:10 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2033637566482669825
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Vice President JD Vance to Host Breakfast with Irish Delegation on St. Patrick's Day
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
03/16/2026
Vice President JD Vance to Host Breakfast with Irish Delegation on St. Patrick's Day
On Tuesday, March 17, 2026, Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance will host the Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin and his wife Mrs. Mary Martin for a St. Patrick's Day breakfast at the Vice President's Residence. Both the Vice President and the Taoiseach will deliver remarks.
The breakfast will celebrate the enduring ties between the United States and Ireland and Ireland's significant cultural contributions to the United States.
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Distributed on March 16th, 2026.
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2033622894727606339
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - In-Town Pool Report #8: Lunch Lid Until 2:30
White House calls a lunch lid until 2:30.
Best,
Philip Wegmann
RealClearPolitics
Mon. Mar 16, 1:35 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2033598970472042537
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - In-Town Pool Report #7: Trump Quotes
On the potential for negotiations with Iran, Trump said that it was difficult to know who to negotiate with after the strikes given the multiple fatalities among Iranian leadership. "I don't know if they're ready yet," he said of the appetite for talks. "They're taking a pounding," he continued. "I don't know if they're ready yet, and we don't even know their leaders. Look all of their leaders are dead, as far as we know, but they're all dead. We don't know who we're dealing with."
Trump said that a past president spoke with him and expressed regret over not striking Iran in the past. "I've spoken to a certain president who I like, actually, a past president, a former president. He said, 'I wish I did it. I wish I did,' but they didn't do it."
When pool followed up to ask which of his predecessors had told him that, Trump replied, "I can't tell you. I don't want to embarrass him. It'd be very bad for his career."
When asked about AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks calling for the US to declare victory and leave, Trump said "no" Sacks "has not" voiced that opinion to him. Concerning Sacks' fear that Israel would consider using a nuclear weapon if the war drags on, Trump said "Israel would never do that."
"You pounded them to hell, and you can just leave now, and it will take 10 years for them to build back, not nearly what they have right now. And I guess that's another theory," he said of the idea of just declaring victory and leaving. "But we want to have it ended so that another president doesn't have" [to deal with the Iranian threat in the future].
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