President Trump aboard Air Force One highlights economic gains—inflation down, gasoline near $2/gallon in many areas from his "Drill Baby Drill" policy—and refutes Democratic claims of rising crime, citing historic lows. He dismisses Epstein allegations as politically weaponized, praises Melania’s First Lady work on global crises, and criticizes governors Wes Moore (Potomac pipe fiasco) and Jared Polis (harsh solitary confinement for a 73-year-old). Skeptical of Iran’s Geneva negotiations but confident in resolving UAE-Saudi tensions, he contrasts AOC/Newsom’s perceived incompetence with Hillary Clinton’s "competence," while hinting at future military flexibility. His remarks blend policy assertions with personal attacks, framing 2026 as a referendum on his leadership’s legacy. [Automatically generated summary]
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President Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Joint Base Andrews.
Gasoline is less than $2 in many places, a gallon, which nobody expected to see, but I did, because we're going by the initial expiration of Drill Baby Drill.
And prices are coming down very strongly.
And as goes gasoline and oil and gas, so goes the rest of other products that were high because of Biden.
So we inherited a mess and we've brought our country back very, very powerfully.
The crime numbers are way down, despite the fact that they let in 25 million people, many of whom should not have been allowed into our country with their open border policy.
But the country's doing very well.
Any questions?
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What are you expecting from these Iran talks in Geneva tomorrow?
The only country in the world that has this system of mail-in balance.
Because they cheat.
And the fact is they could never get elected if they ever changed.
They know it.
If you had voter ID, if you had proof of citizenship, they could never win an election.
And they know that.
And they're fighting to the hill.
And I put this down with men playing in women's sports.
I put it down with transgender for everybody.
I put it down with their horrible open border policy as being ridiculous.
They don't want voter ID.
No voter ID.
And I put that down to the same category with men playing in women's sports.
I'm going to add a fourth category.
They don't want voter ID.
Go ahead.
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So Hillary Flint said in an interview today that she and her husband are getting pulled into the Epstein matter to divert attention from you and that your administration has something to hide.
Cuba is right now a failed nation and they don't even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take off.
They're clogging up their runway.
We're talking to Cuba right now and Marco Rubio talking to Cuba right now and they should absolutely make a deal because it's a humanity, it's really a humanitarian threat.
And we have a lot of great Cuban Americans and they're going to be very happy when they're going to be able to go back and say hello to their relatives and do things that they should have been allowed to do for a long time.
I'm very interested in the people that are here that were treated so badly by Castro and the Cuban authorities.
They have been treated horribly.
So we'll see how it all turns out.
But Cuba and us, we are talking.
In the meantime, there's an embargo.
There's no oil.
There's no money.
There's no anything.
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If a deal isn't made, would you consider an operation like the one in Benefila?
No, she's very, I'm proud of the fact, you know, our movie's so successful.
It's a tremendous hit.
And she does a good job.
She does some very consequential work.
I think you're going to see in the end that she's going to go down as one of the truly great First Ladies when you see what she's doing with Russia, Ukraine, and so many of the other things she's doing.
She's done a good job.
She works very hard.
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Is West Moore invited to the White House this week, Mr. President?
Just so you understand, the governors were all other than two.
One was from Colorado, where he's got a 73-year-old woman who's probably got serious cancer, confined and for some time in solitary confinement because she pointed out the voter theft that was taking place.
In other words, she pointed it out.
They arrested her and they gave her a nine-year sentence.
And he better let her go because it's a disgrace.
And the other guy's just a bad governor.
He's not doing a good job.
Wes Moore is doing a terrible job.
And you can see that.
Well, I didn't invite those two.
If the rest of them don't want to show up, that's okay.
I hear they're coming a lot of them.
The White House is a great place to be.
But no, I don't like the job that Wes Moore's doing.
I don't like the job he's doing on the bridge.
I don't like the fact that he did that horrible, you know, with the pipes in the Potomac.
And he's not doing the job.
They got to do it.
And I'm going to have to get the federal government involved in getting it fixed because he can't fix anything.
Thank you very much.
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