President Trump aboard Air Force One touts $2/gallon gasoline and 125-year-low murder rates, blaming Democratic policies like open borders and opposing voter ID while deflecting Epstein ties onto the Clintons. He praises JD Vance and Marco Rubio, dismisses AOC and Newsom’s Munich performance, and credits the B-2 bomber for Middle East stability by halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions. On DHS funding, he accuses Democrats of weaponizing shutdowns over crime and election policies, while criticizing Polis’ solitary confinement of a voter fraud suspect and Moore’s infrastructure failures—ultimately framing his legacy as one of fiscal and security discipline against perceived partisan obstruction. [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.
We're going by the initial expression 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 is doing very well.
Any questions?
What are you expecting from these Iran talks in Geneva tomorrow?
So I'll be involved in those talks indirectly, and they'll be very important.
We'll see what can happen.
It's been typically rents are very tough negotiators.
They're good negotiators or bad negotiators.
I would say they're bad negotiators because we could have had a deal instead of sending the V2s in to knock out their nuclear potential.
And we had to send the V2s.
I hope they're going to be more reasonable.
They want to make a deal.
Have we been told that a deal is next to impossible?
No, I think they want to make a deal.
I don't think they want the consequences of not making a deal.
They want to make a deal.
Are you going to sit down with Democrats this week on DHS funding?
I will, but you know, we have to protect our law enforcement.
They've done a great job.
I just got finished saying that we have the best crime numbers we've had in many years, and one murders 125 years.
And that's despite a lot of people that shouldn't have been let into our country coming into our country.
And why would you want mail-in balance if you know it's corrupt?
It's a corrupt system.
We're the only country in the world that has this system of mail-in balance.
Think of it.
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.
unidentified
If a deal isn't made, would you consider an operation like the one in Venezuela?
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 covering 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 at the bridge.
I don't like the fact that he did that horrible with the pipes in the Potomac.
And it'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.
unidentified
Thank you, Mr. President.
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