Washington, DC…So we\u2019re going now to the southern White House.\u00a0 We have a lot of work we\u2019re going to be doing in Florida.\u00a0 We had great \u2014 some really great election results, as you know.\u00a0 Georgia just came in and that was a big success.\u00a0 Florida was a tremendous success with both the governor, Ron DeSantis \u2014 he\u2019ll be a great governor \u2014 and the senator, Rick Scott.<\/p>\n
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And, as you know, Ohio was a great victory.\u00a0 We had a lot of great victories, so we\u2019re very happy about that.\u00a0 We put out a statement on Saudi Arabia, which I guess most of you have seen, and we\u2019ll see how that all works out.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very complex situation.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame, but it\u2019s \u2014 it is what it is.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, why are you siding with the Saudis over your own intelligence community?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0\u00a0 Because it\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d for me.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about \u201cAmerica First.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019re not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders, and let Russia, China, and everybody else have them.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about, for me \u2014 very simple \u2014 it\u2019s \u201cAmerica First.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia \u2014 if we broke with them, I think your oil prices would go through the roof.\u00a0 I\u2019ve kept them down.\u00a0 They\u2019ve helped me keep them down.\u00a0 Right now we have low oil prices, or relatively.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to see it go down even lower \u2014 lower.<\/p>\n
But I think that it\u2019s a very simple equation for me.\u00a0 I\u2019m about \u201cMake America Great Again,\u201d and I\u2019m about \u201cAmerica First.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, are you basically\u00a0 \u2014 are you basically telling us \u2014 are you basically telling us, Mr. President, that human rights are too expensive?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0\u00a0 That what?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0 That human rights are too expensive?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0\u00a0 No, I\u2019m not saying that at all.\u00a0 If you look at Iran \u2014 just take a look at Iran \u2014 and you look at what they\u2019re doing.\u00a0 They are a terrorist nation right now.\u00a0 Although I must tell you, they\u2019re a lot better right now than they were when I took office.\u00a0 When I took office, they were heading in a very, very bad direction.<\/p>\n
And at some point, things very positive, frankly, could happen with Iran, but we also need a counterbalance.\u00a0 And Israel needs help also.\u00a0 If we abandon Saudi Arabia, it would be a terrible mistake.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hezbollah is saying that they are (inaudible) government.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s a reply for the sanctions you placed on them \u2014<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I really can\u2019t understand what you\u2019re saying, sorry.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Washington Post, in a statement \u2014 put out a statement \u2014 they said that you\u2019re putting your personal interests, your commercial interests ahead of national interests.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Well, I have nothing to do with Saudi \u2014 just so you understand, I don\u2019t make deals with Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have money from Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 I have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n
And I will tell you, and as most of you know, being President has cost me a fortune, and that\u2019s okay with me.\u00a0 I knew that a long time ago.\u00a0 But being President has cost me a fortune \u2014 a tremendous fortune like you\u2019ve never seen before, but someday I\u2019ll tell you what that is.<\/p>\n
But \u2014 and I knew that a long time ago because I don\u2019t do deals.\u00a0 I don\u2019t do \u2014 all I do is focus on this country and making great deals for this country.\u00a0 I don\u2019t focus on making on great deals for myself because I don\u2019t care anymore.<\/p>\n
So, Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with me.\u00a0 What does have to do with me is putting America first.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Wait, wait, wait, wait.\u00a0 They\u2019re buying hundreds of billions of dollars\u2019 worth of things from this country.\u00a0 If I say we don\u2019t want to take your business, if I say we\u2019re going to cut it off, they will get the equipment \u2014 military equipment and other things \u2014 from Russia and China.<\/p>\n
Russia and China would be very, very happy because right now we\u2019re doing very well against China.\u00a0 We\u2019re doing very well against everybody, including Russia.\u00a0 And I\u2019m going to keep it that way.\u00a0 And I\u2019m not going to tell a country that is spending hundreds of billions of dollars and has helped me do one thing very importantly \u2014 keep oil prices down so that they\u2019re not going to $100 and $150 dollars a barrel.\u00a0 Right now we have oil prices in great shape.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to destroy the world economy, and I\u2019m not going to destroy the economy for our country by being foolish with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
So, I think the statement \u2014<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 I think the statement was pretty obvious what I said.\u00a0 It\u2019s about \u201cAmerica First.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Ivanka\u2019s emails \u2014<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0\u00a0 Say it again.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Ivanka\u2019s emails, why was it appropriate for your daughter to use personal email for government use?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Just so you understand, early on and for a little period of time, Ivanka did some emails.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t classified like Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t deleted like Hillary Clinton, who deleted 33- \u2014 she wasn\u2019t hiring \u2014 she wasn\u2019t doing anything to hide her emails.<\/p>\n
I looked at it just very briefly today, and the presidential records \u2014 they\u2019re all in presidential records.\u00a0 There was no hiding.\u00a0 There was no deleting like Hillary Clinton did.\u00a0 There was no servers in the basement like Hillary Clinton had.\u00a0 You\u2019re talking about a whole different \u2014 you\u2019re talking about all fake news.<\/p>\n
So what Ivanka did, it\u2019s all in the presidential records.\u00a0 Everything is there.\u00a0 There was no deletion.\u00a0 There was no nothing.\u00a0 What it is is a false story.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 emails.\u00a0 She had a server in the basement.\u00a0 That\u2019s the real story.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is your reaction to the fact that your asylum policy has been put on hold?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 The which policy?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Your asylum policy has been put on hold.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Well, you go the 9th Circuit and it\u2019s a disgrace.\u00a0 And I\u2019m going to put in a major complaint because you cannot win \u2014 if you\u2019re us \u2014 a case in the 9th Circuit and I think it\u2019s a disgrace.<\/p>\n
When people file \u2014 every case gets filed in the 9th Circuit because they know \u2014 that\u2019s not law.\u00a0 That\u2019s not what this country stands for.\u00a0 Every case that gets filed in the 9th Circuit, we get beaten.\u00a0 And then we end up having to go to the Supreme Court, like the travel ban, and we won.<\/p>\n
The 9th Circuit \u2014 we\u2019re going to have to look at that.\u00a0 Because every case, no matter where it is, they file it \u2014 practically, I mean practically \u2014 for all intents and purposes \u2014 they file it in what\u2019s called the 9th Circuit.\u00a0 This was an Obama judge.\u00a0 And I\u2019ll tell you what, it\u2019s not going to happen like this anymore.<\/p>\n
Everybody that wants to sue the United States, they file their case in \u2014 almost \u2014 they file their case in the 9th Circuit.\u00a0 And it means an automatic loss no matter what you do, no matter how good your case is.<\/p>\n
And the 9th Circuit is really something we have to take a look at because it\u2019s \u2014 because it\u2019s not fair.\u00a0 People should not be allowed to immediately run to this very friendly circuit and file their case.\u00a0 And you people know better than anybody what\u2019s happening.\u00a0 It\u2019s a disgrace.<\/p>\n
In my opinion, it\u2019s a disgrace what happens with the 9th Circuit.\u00a0 We will win that case in the Supreme Court of the United States.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, did you give your written answers to Mueller yet, sir?\u00a0 Have you turned your written answers to Mueller yet?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Admiral McRaven, who oversaw that raid on Osama bin Laden \u2014 is he a hero?\u00a0 And when will you visit the troops?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Go ahead.\u00a0 What do you have?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President \u2014<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will you answer when you will visit the troops?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I can\u2019t hear your question.\u00a0 I can\u2019t hear you.<\/p>\n
Your voice is \u2014 your voice is not \u2014<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is Admiral McRaven \u2014 is Admiral McRaven \u2014<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t know about Admiral \u2014 I don\u2019t know Admiral McRaven.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did you turn in the written answers to Robert Mueller yet?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 No, they\u2019re all finished.\u00a0 The written answers are finished.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Have you \u2014 did you turn them in?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 The lawyers have them.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 They will.\u00a0 They will.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 The written answers to the witch hunt that\u2019s been going on forever \u2014 no collusion, no nothing \u2014 they\u2019ve been finished.\u00a0 I finished them yesterday.\u00a0 The lawyers have them.\u00a0 I assume they\u2019ll turn them in today or soon.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you afraid to go to a warzone?\u00a0 Are you afraid to go to a warzone and visit American troops?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 No, I\u2019m going to a warzone.\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, are you happy with the sanctions on Iran?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you happy with the sanctions on Iran?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Yeah, the sanctions on Iran are very strong, very powerful.\u00a0 They\u2019re sanctions, I think, that have had a tremendous impact.\u00a0 More sanctions are going on.\u00a0 We have a lot of tremendous support.\u00a0 And Iran is not the same country it was when I became President; it\u2019s a much different country.\u00a0 And hopefully, at some point, we\u2019ll be able to make a fair deal and help Iran and help the people of Iran.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, what about the market today?\u00a0 Do you really believe the Dems are behind the market drop today?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Well, I know that Schumer\u2019s daughter works for Facebook, which I just found out today.\u00a0 And if you look at what Facebook has been doing, you know, they have some real explaining to do \u2014 how they\u2019re so Democrat-oriented.\u00a0 All of them.<\/p>\n
But I hear Schumer\u2019s daughter works for Facebook.\u00a0 And I was very surprised and disappointed to learn that because nobody knew that until now.<\/p>\n
Yeah, go ahead.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you think Julian Assange should go free?\u00a0 (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know anything about him.\u00a0 Really, I don\u2019t know much about him.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Go ahead.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What do you want Pakistan to do \u2014<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Say it.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you want Pakistan to do in the fight against terrorism?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I want Pakistan to help us. \u00a0We\u2019re no longer paying $1.3 billion to Pakistan.\u00a0 We\u2019re paying them nothing because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve done to help us \u2014 nothing.\u00a0 And I cut those payments off a long time ago.\u00a0 We\u2019re not paying Pakistan any money because they\u2019re not helping us at all. \u00a0And we\u2019ll see where it all goes.<\/p>\n
I hope to have a good relationship with Pakistan, but right now we\u2019re paying Pakistan nothing.\u00a0 I cut them off.\u00a0 They were getting $1.3 billion a year.\u00a0 They\u2019re not getting anything now.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, what is your message to the U.S. troops that you deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border who aren\u2019t spending this Thanksgiving holiday with their families?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Oh you \u2014 don\u2019t worry about the Thanksgiving \u2014 these are tough people.\u00a0 They know what they\u2019re doing and they\u2019re great.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve done a great job.\u00a0 You\u2019re so worried about the Thanksgiving holiday for them.<\/p>\n
They are so proud to be representing our country on the border where \u2014 if you look at what\u2019s happening, Mexico \u2014 the people from Tijuana are saying, \u201cWow, these are tough people.\u00a0 They\u2019re fighting us.\u201d\u00a0 They\u2019re in fistfights all over the place.\u00a0 These are tough people that are coming in.\u00a0 Now I understand they have 500 people that have been designated as \u2014 let\u2019s put it in a nice word \u2014 criminals.\u00a0 And these are the people that are coming in?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have people coming in.<\/p>\n
The order today is not \u2014 we can get around that very easily.\u00a0 What I do say is, 9th Circuit is \u2014 it\u2019s very unfair when everybody files their case in the 9th Circuit.\u00a0 They file it for a reason.<\/p>\n
As far as the troops, they are proud to be on the border.\u00a0 They are proud to be defending our nation.\u00a0 And we\u2019re not letting people in.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201ccatch and detain.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s not called \u201ccatch and release,\u201d like it has been for many years.\u00a0 For many years, they called it \u201ccatch and release.\u201d\u00a0 They don\u2019t call it that anymore.<\/p>\n
And our soldiers are doing an incredible job.\u00a0 And if you look at the walls that they\u2019re building, and if you look at all the barricades that they\u2019re putting up, they\u2019ve done a great job.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, do you have any reaction to Michael Avenatti being arrested for domestic violence?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 No, I wish him the best of luck.\u00a0 I wish him the best of luck.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But what about the markets? \u00a0Do you agree with Larry Kudlow that we\u2019re not headed to a recession?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 No, I think we\u2019re doing great.\u00a0 I mean, as a country, we\u2019re doing great.\u00a0 Our unemployment is at a record low.\u00a0 You look at all of the different statistics.\u00a0 I think your tech stocks have some problems, but that\u2019ll come back.<\/p>\n
But, no, I think we\u2019re going to do very well.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to see the Fed with a lower interest rate.\u00a0 I think the rate is too high.\u00a0 I think we have much more of a Fed problem than we have a problem with anyone else.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re doing very well with China.\u00a0 China wants to make a deal very badly.\u00a0 They might not say that to you, but they want to make it very badly.\u00a0 I have another 250 billion dollars\u2019 worth of tariffs to put on if we don\u2019t make a deal.\u00a0 And, believe me, I\u2019ll be putting them on because China has been ripping off our country for many, many years.\u00a0 And they don\u2019t rip us off with me.<\/p>\n
We made a great deal with Canada.\u00a0 We made a great deal with Mexico.\u00a0 I appreciate the help that Mexico is giving us at the border.\u00a0 You see that people are not coming through.\u00a0 All of the fistfights and the fighting that you see are done on the Mexico side.\u00a0 They\u2019re not coming in here.\u00a0 But I appreciate what Mexico is doing.\u00a0 They can do more, but I appreciate what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, how can you say for sure that all of Ivanka\u2019s emails were preserved when she was using a private server and a private address?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Well, they were preserved.\u00a0 The lawyer told me they\u2019re all preserved \u2014 historically, they\u2019re preserved.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. President, what about the CIA assessment that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi?\u00a0 Don\u2019t you believe the CIA?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 They didn\u2019t make a determination.\u00a0 And it\u2019s just like I said, I think it was (inaudible) \u2014 maybe he did, maybe he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 They did not make that assessment.\u00a0 The CIA has looked at it.\u00a0 They\u2019ve studied it a lot.\u00a0 They have nothing definitive.<\/p>\n
And the fact is, maybe he did, maybe he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 If you look at Iran, what they\u2019ve done \u2014 they\u2019ve been a bad actor.\u00a0 You look at what\u2019s happening in Syria with Assad, with hundreds of thousands of people killed.\u00a0 We are with Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 We\u2019re staying with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
And, by the way, just so everybody knows, I have no business whatsoever with Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 Couldn\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you letting the Saudis get away with murder \u2014 murdering a journalist?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 This is about \u201cAmerica first.\u201d\u00a0 They\u2019re paying us $400 billion-plus to purchase and invest in our country.\u00a0 That\u2019s probably the biggest amount ever paid to the United States \u2014 this is over a long period of time.\u00a0 It means hundreds of thousands of jobs, billions of dollars of investment and product.<\/p>\n
And if you think I\u2019m going to let Russia have that money or \u2014 or those \u2014 or those things; if you think I\u2019m going to let China make the military equipment \u2014 hey, China and Russia would love to make 100 billion dollars\u2019 worth of military equipment from Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 We have the contracts.\u00a0 They wanted those contracts.\u00a0 That would be a big, fat, beautiful gift to Russia and to China.\u00a0 They\u2019re not going to get that gift.<\/p>\n
Just so you understand, it\u2019s about \u201cMake America Great Again.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s about \u201cAmerica First.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019re going to stay with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
The other thing: Saudi Arabia is probably the second-biggest oil producer.\u00a0 They\u2019ve worked with us very well.\u00a0 We\u2019ve kept oil prices down.\u00a0 If you want to see oil prices go to $150 a barrel \u2014 like, by the way, Russia would love to see that \u2014 all you have to do is break up our relationship with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will you meet with the Saudi Crown Prince in Argentina next weekend?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will you meet with the Saudi Crown Prince in Argentina?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s going to be there.\u00a0 But if he is, I would.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cindy Hyde-Smith \u2014 are you concerned about her situation?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 No, Cindy Hyde-Smith is a spectacular woman.\u00a0 She\u2019s a great senator.\u00a0 She came in, she\u2019s done a fantastic job in a short period of time.\u00a0 She made a statement which I know that she feels very badly about it, and it was just sort of said in jest, as she said.\u00a0 And she\u2019s a tremendous woman.\u00a0 And it\u2019s a shame that she has to go through this.<\/p>\n
I think she\u2019s going to do very well.\u00a0 I really believe she\u2019s going to do very well.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gotten to know her well.\u00a0 She\u2019s a person that loves the people of Mississippi, she loves the people of this country.\u00a0 She\u2019s going to be a great senator.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to do two events in Mississippi on Monday.\u00a0 I\u2019m doing one near \u2014 let\u2019s see, I\u2019m doing one near Jackson.\u00a0 I\u2019m doing one in the Gulf Coast.\u00a0 And we\u2019re going to do one in Tupelo.\u00a0 So we might even do three, but we\u2019re going to do two.<\/p>\n
I think Tupelo probably is definite, and I think Gulfport is definite.\u00a0 Cindy \u2014 Cindy Hyde-Smith is a tremendous woman who truly loves the people of Mississippi and our country, and I think she\u2019s going to win, very big.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why would you ever let Ivanka be interviewed with Democrats about her email?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Oh, Ivanka can handle herself.\u00a0 Ivanka can handle herself.\u00a0 These are all in the historical records.\u00a0 There was no deletion whatsoever, unlike Hillary Clinton, who deleted 33,000 emails; unlike Hillary Clinton, who had a server in the basement.\u00a0 Ivanka didn\u2019t.\u00a0 This was just early on, when she came in.\u00a0 These calls were not classified, unlike Hillary Clinton\u2019s calls, which were classified.\u00a0 And it\u2019s all fake news.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holiday pardons?\u00a0 Any holiday pardons?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I love the pardons for the turkey.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you going to pardon any people?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I haven\u2019t thought of it, but it\u2019s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will you pardon Assad?\u00a0 Will you pardon Assad?\u00a0 (Inaudible.)\u00a0 Why are you (inaudible) the petition?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 No, I think what Assad has done is horrible.\u00a0 I mean, really horrible.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A question about the recently released Time Magazine online poll.\u00a0 Who do you feel \u2014 obviously, I can assume who you think deserves to be first place.\u00a0 Who do you think deserves to be second place as Time\u2019s Person of the Year?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cPerson of the Year,\u201d right?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 It\u2019s no longer \u201cMan of the Year,\u201d right?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Their language.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 That\u2019s up to Time Magazine.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been there before.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine anybody else other than Trump.\u00a0 Can you imagine anybody other than Trump?\u00a0 Huh?<\/p>\n
Have a good time, everybody.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n
(Inaudible.)\u00a0 This country has to get back together today.\u00a0 You saw the polls that came out.\u00a0 The polls are negative now on it.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a disgrace.\u00a0 Honestly, it\u2019s a disgrace (inaudible).<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Is it good or bad?<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s great.\u00a0 (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 He\u2019s doing a very good job.\u00a0 Everybody tells me that Matt Whitaker is doing a fantastic job.\u00a0 So, you know, we\u2019ll have to see where everything goes.\u00a0 But everybody tells me he\u2019s doing a fantastic job.<\/p>\n
Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Inaudible) calling to investigate Ivanka\u2019s emails.\u00a0 What do you say, sir?<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 What else?<\/p>\n
Thank you, everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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