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Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
Q Was it appropriate for you to attack Pelosi in Normandy? Was it appropriate for you to attack Pelosi in Normandy?
THE PRESIDENT: No, no, Pelosi attacked me. She was here. She made a horrible statement that I'm sure she wished she didn't make. She made a horrible statement while I was with the Queen of England, while I was with - while I was with the President of France. And you're not supposed to do that. Okay? But the ones that committed the crimes are the Democrats and others.
Q Mr. President, do immigrants from Venezuela deserve asylum in the U.S.? And why haven't you given them temporary protected status?
THE PRESIDENT: We're looking at that and we're very much involved with the Venezuela crisis. It's a horrible thing, a horrible situation. It's been brewing for many years. It really started, in the worst form, during the Biden-Obama administration. But it's been brewing for a long time.
Q Can you give them temporary protected status?
THE PRESIDENT: So we're looking at that very strongly. We're looking at that.
Q Mr. President, on Xi - your tweet about Xi and the threat of tariffs if he doesn't meet with you, where are you on that?
THE PRESIDENT: My relationship with President Xi of China is a very good one. One of the people I really like. I get along with him right. He's representing China. I'm representing the United States of America. We're doing very well. We're taking in billions and billions of dollars. Companies are leaving China right now and they're coming here because they don't want to pay the tariffs. And they're going to other countries.
But I think that China - I can tell you China would like to make a deal very badly. They're getting hurt very badly by the tariffs because companies can't pay the tariffs, so they're leaving China.
And the other thing you have to remember about China is that China will subsidize companies so our taxpayer is not paying for very much of it. A report came out; they're paying for very little of it.
But what it's doing is creating a fair playing field, which we've never had with China since the WTO - the World Trade Organization.
Q And will you meet at the G20? Will you meet with Xi at the G20?
THE PRESIDENT: We expect to meet with President Xi very shortly. We think we'll meet him at the G20. We're talking. We have a very good relationship.
Look, we had a deal with China and then they went back on the deal. They said, "We don't want to have four major points, five major points." So we changed it. But we had a deal with China. And unless they go back to that deal, I have no interest.
Right now, we're taking in billions and billions of dollars. I've created something - what we've done in the last two and a half years, we've picked up $14 trillion in net worth of the United States. And China has gone down probably by $20 trillion. There's a tremendous gap. When I came in, that gap was getting very close.
Q Why are you so certain, Mr. President, that you will win Iowa in 2020?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I love Iowa. I've gotten along great. I won Iowa by a lot the last time. Usually a Republican would not win it by that much. But I won Iowa, as you know, by a lot. I have a great relationship with the farmers. I have a great relationship with everybody. I mean, Iowa, I think, is going to be something that we win very easily.
I think we're going to win. I saw a fake poll - a suppression poll in Pennsylvania. I even saw one in Texas. They're suppression. They're fake polls, just like the fake media, of which there are many here. They're fake polls.
We're going to win Texas by a lot. We're going to win Iowa by a lot. We're going to win, I would say, every - Pennsylvania, I think we're going to do very well. We have steel companies opening up that for 40 years they didn't open up steel companies. Now they're opening up. No, I think we're doing very well.
Q (Inaudible) about your meeting with Kim Jong Un while you're in South Korea? Are there discussions underway?
THE PRESIDENT: So, I see that. And I just received a beautiful letter from Kim Jong Un, and I think the relationship is very well. But I appreciated the letter. I saw the information about the CIA, with respect to his brother, or half-brother. And I would tell him that would not happen under my auspices, that's for sure. I wouldn't let that happen under my auspices.
But I just received a beautiful letter from Kim Jong Un. I can't show you the letter, obviously, but it was a very personal, very warm, very nice letter. I appreciate it.
And I'll say it again: I think that North Korea has tremendous potential, and he'll be there. I think that North Korea, under his leadership - but North Korea, because of what it represents - the people are great, the land is great, the location is incredible between Russia, China, and South Korea - I think North Korea has tremendous potential. And the one that feels that more than anybody is Kim Jong Un. He gets it. He totally gets it.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know. I have not heard about that, but we'll see.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: I would, but I want to get it further advanced.
In the meantime, no nuclear testing. No major missile testing. Nothing like when I first got here. When I first got here, it was a bad mess.
We have a very good relationship together. Now I can confirm it because of the letter I got yesterday. And I think - you know, I think that something will happen that's going to be very positive. But in the meantime, we have our hostages back. The remains keep coming back. We have a relationship.
Q Do you think he had his half-brother killed? Do you think he had his half-brother killed?
Q Are you saying that the CIA (inaudible) was wrong?
THE PRESIDENT: Say it?
Q Was the CIA wrong? Did he have his half-brother killed?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know anything about that. I know this: That the relationship is such that that wouldn't happen under my auspices. But I don't know about that. Nobody knows.
Q McAleenan (inaudible) - earlier he said that the border wouldn't -
Q So, Mr. President, you said -
THE PRESIDENT: Quiet. Quiet. Quiet.
Go ahead.
Q - that the border wouldn't be as bad today if they passed the 2013 immigration bill. But that included the Gang of Eight amnesty.
THE PRESIDENT: Up a little higher.
Q That included - McAleenan said that the border wouldn't be as bad if Congress had passed the 2013 immigration bill. But that included the Gang of Eight amnesty.
THE PRESIDENT: So, Congress has to get their act together. They have to pass immigration laws. They have to get rid of - I mean, as far as I'm concerned, the most important thing is to get rid of the loopholes, because you have loopholes and asylum problems that they could do in 15 minutes if they wanted to.
The Democrats in Congress are causing this country tremendous drug problems, tremendous security problems, and they have to get together and they have to work out asylum and the loopholes.
It would take, literally, 15 minutes. It's so simple.
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THE PRESIDENT: No, no, Pelosi attacked me. She was here. She made a horrible statement that I'm sure she wished she didn't make. She made a horrible statement while I was with the Queen of England, while I was with - while I was with the President of France. And you're not supposed to do that. Okay? But the ones that committed the crimes are the Democrats and others.
Q Mr. President, do immigrants from Venezuela deserve asylum in the U.S.? And why haven't you given them temporary protected status?
THE PRESIDENT: We're looking at that and we're very much involved with the Venezuela crisis. It's a horrible thing, a horrible situation. It's been brewing for many years. It really started, in the worst form, during the Biden-Obama administration. But it's been brewing for a long time.
Q Can you give them temporary protected status?
THE PRESIDENT: So we're looking at that very strongly. We're looking at that.
Q Mr. President, on Xi - your tweet about Xi and the threat of tariffs if he doesn't meet with you, where are you on that?
THE PRESIDENT: My relationship with President Xi of China is a very good one. One of the people I really like. I get along with him right. He's representing China. I'm representing the United States of America. We're doing very well. We're taking in billions and billions of dollars. Companies are leaving China right now and they're coming here because they don't want to pay the tariffs. And they're going to other countries.
But I think that China - I can tell you China would like to make a deal very badly. They're getting hurt very badly by the tariffs because companies can't pay the tariffs, so they're leaving China.
And the other thing you have to remember about China is that China will subsidize companies so our taxpayer is not paying for very much of it. A report came out; they're paying for very little of it.
But what it's doing is creating a fair playing field, which we've never had with China since the WTO - the World Trade Organization.
Q And will you meet at the G20? Will you meet with Xi at the G20?
THE PRESIDENT: We expect to meet with President Xi very shortly. We think we'll meet him at the G20. We're talking. We have a very good relationship.
Look, we had a deal with China and then they went back on the deal. They said, "We don't want to have four major points, five major points." So we changed it. But we had a deal with China. And unless they go back to that deal, I have no interest.
Right now, we're taking in billions and billions of dollars. I've created something - what we've done in the last two and a half years, we've picked up $14 trillion in net worth of the United States. And China has gone down probably by $20 trillion. There's a tremendous gap. When I came in, that gap was getting very close.
Q Why are you so certain, Mr. President, that you will win Iowa in 2020?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I love Iowa. I've gotten along great. I won Iowa by a lot the last time. Usually a Republican would not win it by that much. But I won Iowa, as you know, by a lot. I have a great relationship with the farmers. I have a great relationship with everybody. I mean, Iowa, I think, is going to be something that we win very easily.
I think we're going to win. I saw a fake poll - a suppression poll in Pennsylvania. I even saw one in Texas. They're suppression. They're fake polls, just like the fake media, of which there are many here. They're fake polls.
We're going to win Texas by a lot. We're going to win Iowa by a lot. We're going to win, I would say, every - Pennsylvania, I think we're going to do very well. We have steel companies opening up that for 40 years they didn't open up steel companies. Now they're opening up. No, I think we're doing very well.
Q (Inaudible) about your meeting with Kim Jong Un while you're in South Korea? Are there discussions underway?
THE PRESIDENT: So, I see that. And I just received a beautiful letter from Kim Jong Un, and I think the relationship is very well. But I appreciated the letter. I saw the information about the CIA, with respect to his brother, or half-brother. And I would tell him that would not happen under my auspices, that's for sure. I wouldn't let that happen under my auspices.
But I just received a beautiful letter from Kim Jong Un. I can't show you the letter, obviously, but it was a very personal, very warm, very nice letter. I appreciate it.
And I'll say it again: I think that North Korea has tremendous potential, and he'll be there. I think that North Korea, under his leadership - but North Korea, because of what it represents - the people are great, the land is great, the location is incredible between Russia, China, and South Korea - I think North Korea has tremendous potential. And the one that feels that more than anybody is Kim Jong Un. He gets it. He totally gets it.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know. I have not heard about that, but we'll see.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: I would, but I want to get it further advanced.
In the meantime, no nuclear testing. No major missile testing. Nothing like when I first got here. When I first got here, it was a bad mess.
We have a very good relationship together. Now I can confirm it because of the letter I got yesterday. And I think - you know, I think that something will happen that's going to be very positive. But in the meantime, we have our hostages back. The remains keep coming back. We have a relationship.
Q Do you think he had his half-brother killed? Do you think he had his half-brother killed?
Q Are you saying that the CIA (inaudible) was wrong?
THE PRESIDENT: Say it?
Q Was the CIA wrong? Did he have his half-brother killed?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know anything about that. I know this: That the relationship is such that that wouldn't happen under my auspices. But I don't know about that. Nobody knows.
Q McAleenan (inaudible) - earlier he said that the border wouldn't -
Q So, Mr. President, you said -
THE PRESIDENT: Quiet. Quiet. Quiet.
Go ahead.
Q - that the border wouldn't be as bad today if they passed the 2013 immigration bill. But that included the Gang of Eight amnesty.
THE PRESIDENT: Up a little higher.
Q That included - McAleenan said that the border wouldn't be as bad if Congress had passed the 2013 immigration bill. But that included the Gang of Eight amnesty.
THE PRESIDENT: So, Congress has to get their act together. They have to pass immigration laws. They have to get rid of - I mean, as far as I'm concerned, the most important thing is to get rid of the loopholes, because you have loopholes and asylum problems that they could do in 15 minutes if they wanted to.
The Democrats in Congress are causing this country tremendous drug problems, tremendous security problems, and they have to get together and they have to work out asylum and the loopholes.
It would take, literally, 15 minutes. It's so simple.
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