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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Pool report 11: Oval Office event with ambassadors
Pool entered the Oval Office at 5:23 pm.
President Trump started speaking at 5:24 pm.
Vp Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are also in the Oval Office for the greeting with Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad and her Israeli counterpart Yechiel Leiter.
Mabinty Quarshie
Thu. Apr. 23, 5:27 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2047427986714960262
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Pool report 10: gathering
Pool has gathered at the briefing room doors.
Mabinty Quarshie
Thu. Apr. 23, 4:44 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2047417757935763721
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Pool report #9 more quotes from Trump's q&a
I meant to include my otter of the event, which is here: https://otter.ai/u/OR02C1P17UNB8F5fwHUBosLlqUA
Your pooler was informed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio popped into the Oval Office briefly before he left.
More quotes from Trump (please double-check them!):
On Navy Secretary John Phelan: "He's a wonderful guy. Just put out a statement…He's a very good man. I really liked him but he had some conflict."
"He's a hard charger, and he had some conflicts with some other people, mostly as to building and buying new ships."
"I'm very aggressive in the new ship building, and somehow he just didn't get along with him. He's an excellent guy. I think he would have gotten along great with me. I didn't really deal with him too much."
"I consider him to have done a very good job. I put out a nice statement about him, got to get along, especially in the military, got to get along."
"And some people liked him. Some people didn't, and that's usually the truth about everything. But I found him to be a very good man, and I, I like him a lot."
On Iran war ceasefire timeline, President Trump did not give a date for how long it would last.
"Don't rush me. Don't rush me"
"We'll see what happens. They have a lot of…we have no pressure."
"I also took a little break. I gave them a break and remember this. I want to make the best deal. I could make a deal right now."
"I thought it would take four to six weeks, and I was right, because at the end of six weeks, at the end of four weeks, their military was decimated."
"I don't want to rush myself, you know, because every source says, oh, Trump is under time pressure. I'm not. No, no, you know, whose under time pressure they are."
"I'm not asking anybody for more time."
On using nuclear weapons against Iran:
"No…who do I need it?"
"Why would I use a nuclear weapon when we've totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it? No, I wouldn't use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody."
On Prince Harry's comments on Ukraine/royal visit:
"How's he doing? How's his wife? Please give him my regards."
"I know one thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that's for sure. I think I'm speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry, but I appreciate his advice."
"Well, I look forward to the dinner. We're having King Charles come, he's a friend of mine. We're really looking forward to it. We've spoken, and it's we're gonna have a great time."
Mabinty Quarshie
Thu. Apr. 23, 4:35 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2047417247937769845
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Pool report 8: event ends
Pool was escorted out of the Oval Office at 4:18 pm. The event has concluded.
Mabinty Quarshie
Thu. Apr. 23, 4:20 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2047410920716894247
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