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POTUS' full gaggle on the South Lawn this morning —AF1 was wheels up at 9:31 a.m. ET for an eight hour flight to Rome.
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PRESS SEC: "As you saw on Friday... The Office of Personnel Management reclassified workers... all the President is trying to do is ensure that federal workers are being held accountable...If they are engaging in corruption as a government worker, they should no longer have their job."
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TIM POOL: "Many news organizations that are represented in this room have marched in lockstep on false narratives... What's being called the 'Maryland Man' hoax."
PRESS SEC: "The press in this room have the story wrong... The President was always on the right side of this issue to deport this illegal criminal from our community."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-chief-kristi-noems-purse-stolen-thousands-dollars-dc-restaurant
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Sent: Monday April 21, 2025, 12:28 PM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: WH in town note 7/ POTUS on Pete Hegseth and immigration
Second gaggle continued. On another question about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Signal messages:
POTUS: "We have the highest recruitment numbers I think we've had in 28 years. No, he's doing a great job. It's just fake news. They just bring up stories. I guess it sounds like disgruntled employees. He was put there to get rid of a lot of bad people and that's what he's doing so you don't always have friends when you do that."
On a question about visiting his golf course in Scotland:
POTUS: "We're opening a fantastic project... and I hope I'm going to get to see it. It's going to be great. Thank you."
On a question about Haitian immigrants finding it nearly impossible to go back to Haiti because flights have been suspended:
POTUS: "We have to have a safe country. If people are in the country illegally – and the people who have records that are very bad in particular – we have to get them out. I was, as you know, elected on the basis that we would have very little crime in our country... We closed up the border. The border's now the strongest border we've ever had."
Q: These are Haitians who came in legally through that Biden-era programme. There are communities, even in Texas, conservative voters, who say these people should not be forced to leave.
POTUS: "Well, if they came legally then they're going to be in good shape."
Q: You talked about Jesus in your opening statement. How important is this country right now [inaudible]?
POTUS: "It brings the country together. It's so important that we do that. Religion. I said bring religion back. Religion keeps it together. Such a great thing."
POTUS walked to the Oval Office at 11.45am.
And from POTUS's first gaggle (which your pooler could not get to), CSPAN has a clip
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Sent: Monday April 21, 2025, 11:41 AM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: WH in town note 5/ POTUS speaks to reporters
POTUS walked a line of reporters taking questions. He said he does not yet know whether he will attend the Pope’s funeral. He expressed confidence in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and criticised the “fake news” media. On the question of whether Secretary Hegseth is doing a good job, POTUS remarked: “Ask the Houthis.”
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It's nice to have a president who doesn't require the Easter Bunny to lead him around
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Listen very carefully to what @amjadt25 (UAE expert on middle eastern political affairs) says about the MB. —what's baffling, is that many western "experts" think that they know better.
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Very important information for Cobb County voters!
https://x.com/thegeorgehq/status/1900753789390647672?s=46&t=nFWKfKwNhY22NjYno2m2eg
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Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 5:00 PM
To: VP Comms
Subject: VP pool report #1 Departing JBA
Good afternoon, everyone. I’ll be the print pool reporter as Vice President Vance and his family travel to Italy and India.
Marine Two landed at Joint Base Andrews at 4:52 p.m., roughly half an hour after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni departed. The American and Italian flags were flying outside the terminal here today.
VP Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance and their children Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel exited Marine Two and the two youngest sprinted ahead, running up the steps of Air Force Two alone, wearing what appeared to be pajamas ahead of the overnight flight. Ewan followed close behind them while the vice president and second lady chatted with Air Force personnel as they approached the plane. The vice president gave a quick wave before boarding Air Force Two. We are due to depart shortly.
Next up is Rome. I’ll update you, of course, when we land. Ciao.
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Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 4:25 PM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: In town Pool report #4a
We were taken into the Oval with fishermen and women from American Samoa. Trump is signing a proclamation expanding fishing rights in the pacific islands. Trump describes the area to be three times the size of California.
Navarro and Lutnick standing behind the Resolute.
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President Trump signs an executive order to restore American seafood competitiveness by reducing regulatory burdens, combating unfair trade, and enhancing production and exports.
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Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:52 PM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: In-town Pool 2a (Additional quotes from Cabinet Room spray)
At one point PM Meloni said, “I believe in the west unity. I think simply we have to talk.”
“She believes in the president,” President Trump interrupted.
“Also,” she agreed. “…and find ourselves in the best middle way to grow together.”
Trump on Europe: “Oh, there will be a trade deal, 100 percent. Why you think there won’t be? Of course there will be a trade deal, very much. They want to make one very much. And we are going to make a trade deal. I fully expect it. And it will be a fair deal.”
Asked about what countries were on his priority list, Trump said, “Everybody is on my priority list.”
On timing, he said a trade deal with Japan and Italy would come “at a certain point. We’re in no rush.”
He repeated the claim that 2020 was a “rigged election.”
Asked if there is concern about Chinese efforts to build alliances given the new U.S. tariffs, he said “No. No one can compete with us. Nobody.” Asked about picking up the phone to call President Xi, he said “Oh we’re going to make a deal. I think we are going to make a very good deal with China.”
On Meloni, Trump said, “I do like her very much. I think she is a great prime minister. I think she is doing a fantastic job in Italy. And we are very proud of her. I knew her right from the beginning. I knew her as a very early prime minister. And I knew she had great talent. She is one of the real leaders of the world, and I am very proud to be with her.”
“I am sure that together we are stronger,” Meloni said. “And I have to find the best way to make us both stronger on both sides of the Atlantic.”
“We are going to have very little problem making a deal with Europe or anybody else, because we have something that everybody wants. You know what that means, right?” Trump concluded.
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(audio attached)
“The Shot Heard Round the World”: The Battles of Lexington and Concord
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem robbed in DC restaurant, sources confirm.
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Sent: Monday April 21, 2025, 12:05 PM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: WH in town note 6/ POTUS on Pope and Pete Hegseth
POTUS held gaggles at two separate press risers during the White House Easter Egg Roll. Your pooler was at the second one. Here is a first round of quotations from that:
Q: How are tariff negotiations going?
POTUS: "I think they're going very well. We're going to make a lot of money. We're already 25% on cars and aluminum and steel. Taking in a lot of money, more money than this country's seen. And that's just the beginning."
Q: Are you going to go to the Pope's funeral?
POTUS: "I don't know yet. We're going to be briefed on it right now."
Q: Would you like to go?
POTUS: "I don't know, I just have to look at the timing. We just lowered the flags throughout the country."
Q: Is there a proposal from the United States that Ukraine recognise Crimea as part of Russia?
POTUS: "So I will be giving you a full detail over the next three days. But we had very good meetings on Ukraine, Russia. We had very good meetings, actually, on Iran too. We'll see how that works."
Q: What's the next step there?
POTUS: "The next step is we need a little time but we had very good meetings on Iran and the tariffs are going very well. Everybody wants to negotiate."
Q: How are you going to remember Pope Francis's legacy?
POTUS: "He's a very good man who loved the world and he especially loved people that were having a hard time and that's good with me."
Q: He preached tolerance for migrants. Do you agree with that?
POTUS: "Yeah, I do, I do."
Q: Pete Hegseth. Do you still have confidence?
POTUS: "Here we go again. Just a waste of time. He is doing a great job."
Q: Why do you still have confidence?
POTUS: "Because he's doing a great job. Ask the Houthis how he's doing."
Q: There's a hearing today on the Alien Enemies Act in the DC District Court.
POTUS: "I was elected to clean up the mess in this country. We had millions and millions of people come in who are criminals, who are murderers, who are everything you can imagine. Drug lords, drug dealers. They came in from prisons and from mental institutions. And I was elected to move them out, among many other things. And that's what we're doing."
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POTUS: “Remember when the bunny took Joe Biden out? He’s not taking Trump out.” 😂🤣
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Vice President Vance met with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday…
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APRIL 4, 2021
PALM BEACH, FL
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America.
Happy Easter to ALL, including the Radical Left CRAZIES who rigged our Presidential Election, and want to destroy our Country!
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Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2025, 4:21 PM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: In-Town Pool #4 — Elon
POTUS emerged from the front entrance of the golf club, stopping to chat with several unidentified people near the entrance.
Elon Musk was there, standing shoulder to shoulder with the president. He did not join the motorcade and stayed behind at the club.
Motorcade is rolling at 4:16. POTUS waved to pool vans as the Beast passed.
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President Trump participates in an Easter prayer service and dinner - April 16, 2025
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Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 5:26 PM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: In Town Pool Report #5
The signing of executive orders turned into an impromptu press conference. The entire event that lasted a bit longer than 34 minutes, according to your pooler’s recorder.
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Some highlights:
—Trump commented on the SCOTUS decision to accept a case on birthright citizenship. “You are just telling me that for the first time. I am so happy. The case has been so misunderstood. That case, birthright citizenship, is about slavery.”
—He declined to answer a question about whether he would ask the Salvadorian government to return Abrego Garcia, again saying that his lawyers are handling.
—Asked whether he wanted to change gun regulation after the FSU shooting, he said, “I’m a big advocate of the second amendment. I have been since the beginning. I have protected it. These things are terrible.” He said “we will have more to say about it later.”
—He confirmed that he planned to go in September to Great Britain to meet with the king.
—He said the Nippon steel day could be part of the tariff negotiations with Japan “but I doubt it.”
—Asked about the discussions at the IRS punishing Harvard by removing its tax exempt status, he spoke at length about pastors he had dinner with Wednesday night who told him that they believed they had been politically targeted by the Biden administration. “We are also finding that many people just having to do with Trump support have gone through hell. They have used the IRS for purposes of something that is very illegal. It’s a very illegal thing that they did.” If that is wrong, why are you considering changing tax status of Harvard. “Because I think Harvard is a disgrace. They are obviously anti-semitic, and all of a sudden they are starting to behave.” He also said that his understanding was no final decision had been made on the tax status of Harvard.
--When asked if there were other non-profits he was considering investigating, he mentioned CREW, a litigation group that has resisted his administration, as a possible target. “It’s supposed to be a charitable organization, the only charity they have is going after Donald Trump. So we are looking at that.”
—He did not disclose whether he had or had not had conversations with President Xi over tariffs. Lutnick praised Trump for forcing every country in the world into negotiations. "We are confident that we will work out something with China.” Trump then said the US was talking with China. “I think we have plenty of time,” Trump said. Trump said he thought there would a deal with China, “I would think over the next three to four weeks. “We have a big beautiful store and everybody wants a piece of that store.”
—"We have a deal for TikTok but it is subject to China so we will delay it until this thing gets worked out,” Trump said.
--After extensive discussion of fishing regulations in the South Pacific with the fishermen, he signed the order and the Samoan guests sang him a short song. “We have the greatest coast in the world. We have the greatest fishermen in the world,” Lutnick said.
—Trump then signed a second order on fishing related to regulations closer to the mainland.
—Navarro promised him another document to make increase access to lobster fishing off the coast of Maine by next week. “We will have that on your desk next week, I promise,” Navarro said.
—Alex Bruesewitz, a new media consultant for Trump’s political operations, stood in the back of the Oval, with other White House staff.
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Trump Seeks to Boost US Fishing Industry’s Seafood Exports
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Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2025 11:37 AM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: Supplemental pool report #1: worship service
The supplemental pool entered into the EEOB for a worship service at 10:18AM. The service was on going.
Franklin Graham began his sermon at 10:21AM.
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His sermon largely touched on how Jesus suffered and died on the cross for His people. Graham spoke about how he has experienced God’s mercy and love in his own life.
Following, staffers received communion and sang “Amazing Grace.”
The room was packed with White House staffers and was standing room only.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was sitting in the front row.
Per the White House leading the worship service is
Faith Office Paula White, Jenny Korn, Liberty University Choir, Pastor Greg Laurie, Rev Franklin Graham and Pastor Jentenzen Franklin
The pool left at 10:47AM and the service was still ongoing [...]
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Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:33 PM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: Foreign Pool Report #2 / Meloni's quotes at the pool spray
PM Meloni’s quotes at the pool spray before lunch in the Cabinet Room (please check against the official transcript):
Q: Prime Minister, you have said that the President's tariffs are wrong. Do you, should the European Union still believe that the United States is a reliable trade partner?
A: Well, I'm here exactly to make the West stronger. For I believe in the West unity. And I think simply, we have to talk and find ourselves in the best middle way to grow together. That's why I'm here. If I wouldn't think it's a reliable partner, I wouldn't be here,
Q: How quickly can you raise your defense, Prime Minister?
A: Well, Italy is going to the next summit of the NATO, announcing that it raised 2% as was requestes.
Q: Is 2% enough?
A: Europe as you know is committed to do more, is working on tools to allow and help the member states in increasing the defense spending. And we are convinced that everyone has to do more.
Q: Prime Minister, the retaliatory tariffs that the European Commission passed and then suspended, are they still on the table if you cannot make a deal with President Trump?
A: I'm sure we can make a deal, and I'm here to help on that. I cannot lock this deal in the name of the European Union. My goal would be to invite President Trump to pay an official visit to Italy and understand if there's a possibility when it comes to organize also such a meeting with Europe. For I think the best way is that we simply speak frankly about the needs that every one of us has, and finding ourselves a needle. That's useful for all I. Really somebody calls me such a Western nationalism. I don't know if it is the right word, but I'm sure that together, we are stronger. And I have to find a way. I'm here to find the best way to make us both stronger on the two shores of the Atlantic.
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