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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Out-of-Town Pool Report #16 - Arrival
The motorcade arrived at the WH’s West Executive Avenue entrance at 3:10 p.m.
Naomi Lim
Washington Examiner
Wed. May 20, 3:13 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2057184664733810851
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Out-of-Town Pool Report #17 - Quotes
POTUS spoke to the pool, starting at 2:39 p.m., and opened with the indictment of former Cuban dictator Raul Castro.
“The Cuban population of Miami, and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated, whose families were ruined, appreciate what the attorney general just did today, and was just doing now.”
“This was a big, I think it was a very big moment for people that, not only Cuban Americans, but people that came from Cuba, that want to go back to Cuba, people that want to see their family in Cuba.”
“They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before."
"What we're going to see, it's a failing nation, you see that it's falling apart."
"We're there to help, we're there to help the families, the people.”
On the CIA meeting last week:
"We have a lot of expertise in Cuba, and it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important. They've been looking for this moment for 65 years, so we'll see what happens, but we're going to, in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out. They have no, no way of living. They have no food, they have no electricity, they have no energy at all. But they do have great people, a lot of great people."
"We're freeing up Cuba."
On the embargo:
“We’ll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon."
On an escalation:
"There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart. It's a mess, and they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of people."
On whether there will be a Maduro-style arrest:
"I don't want to say that."
On Newsom on Vance:
"JD is very talented, he's a smart guy, he'll do very well."
"Hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be really easy to run."
On Iran/being an hour away from taking new action:
"We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers."
"It could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation."
On Stephen Colbert's last show:
"I'll have a message at a later date."
On whether the U.S. offered Iran oil sanctions relief:
"No, I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement."
On AI anxiety:
"We have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States, by far, than we ever had before."
On Erdogan call:
"I had a very good call with President Erdogan."
"We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people?"
"He's actually done a good job. He's been, I think, very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally, and his people respect him."
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